Math and English language arts seem such disparate content areas but the Common Core State Standards actually draw out their similarities in the teaching and learning process. Both require students to learn grit and perseverance; both ask students to use reasons or evidence to support arguments; both require precision; both require structures to…

Though there has been disagreement about the particular emphasis on the disciplines with literacy, there is a great deal of agreement that the disciplines matter. This article describes a course designed to prepare beginning teachers to engage in disciplinary literacy, or literacy-related ways of knowing in a discipline. After researching a topic…

This strategy is to provide health education teacher candidates with critical and creative thinking tools to explore gardening as a vehicle to integrate health education content with other subjects. According to the Competency-Based Framework for the Health Education Specialist (2010a), entry-level health educators should have skills and…

Many educational researchers across the United States have found that inquiry-based learning (IBL) supports the development of deep, meaningful content knowledge. However, integrating IBL into classroom practice has been challenging, in part because of contrasting conceptualizations and practices across educational fields. In this article, we (a)…

This article explores one element of collaborative practice: the integration of English language learner-focused instruction and discussion in a secondary English methods course. Drawing on the authors' expertise, they examine revisions made to a secondary English methods course to better address the academic and individual needs of diverse…

Writing across the Curriculum (WAC) has been urged and tried by some of the best teachers and scholars of the past in ways similar to those of today's advocates and practitioners. WAC programs have staked their claims that writing is essential to learning; that it is necessary to write in order for students to see before them the words that…

Understanding U.S. culture is difficult, because the information explosion creates an increase in the number and complexity of various cultural relationships. American Studies is a valuable and unique discipline because it directly addresses this problem, the basic purposes of education, and the relationships that shape students' culture. This…

Shares experiences of a member and team leader of an eight-credit integrated studies learning community called "Self as Citizen" for first-year students in New Century College at George Mason University. Explores the practical aspects of teaching such an interdisciplinary, team-taught course. (EV)

The document presents the final report of the Arts in Education Project, a research project of the National Committee, Arts for the Handicapped to develop and measure the effects of an arts infused curriculum on the academic performance of handicapped elementary school children. A model for infusing the arts into the established curriculum was…

This article discusses: (1) how death education came to be part of health education; (2) a rationale for including death education in the health education curriculum; and (3) the need to articulate this rationale to the public and to educators. Social, physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of death/health education are explained. (PP)

Describes the use of Socratic seminars for art education, in which art objects are used as "texts" to explore ideas, moral dilemmas, and cultural traditions. Suggests that seminars fulfill educational goals related to analytic, language, and communication skills. Discusses logistics of the seminar process. (12 citations) (AJL)

This paper reports from an observant participant's point of view on a theme study conducted in a fifth-grade classroom at a laboratory elementary school of a small, private liberal arts college in Georgia. The "Theme Study" is a student-centered approach that "emphasizes a coherent and holistic approach to learning through the study…

This document, which is intended for business educators at all levels, outlines two approaches to facilitating international business communication by adopting a global approach in business communication and related business education courses. In the first half of the document, the following steps in implementing the separate-course approach, are…

The design of the Phasing in Career Education Systematically (PICES) project was based on two data centered systems, sequencing and needs assessment. Four Texas independent school districts participated in the project which directly involved 986 students, 69 teachers, and 27 administrators. Some of the major activities conducted in each district…

A career-centered program in the Louisville, McComb, and Winona Municipal Separate School Districts, Mississippi, attempted to bridge the gap between the world of work and the school curriculum for students in grades 1-12. The following specific objectives were established: (1) To develop personal, social, economic and decisionmaking skills in all…