This book describes a comprehensive process by which schools and districts can turn piecemeal initiatives to incorporate standards into curriculum into a coherent plan. The book explains how to determine who is to teach and assess each standard and how to create a curriculum and assessment plan. It defines effective practice in linking curriculum…

This paper examines the works of Ellsworth Collings, professor at the University of Oklahoma beginning in 1922 and Dean of the School of Education beginning in 1926. Educators remember Collings for his 1923 book, "An Experiment With a Project Curriculum," which described the effectiveness of certain progressive principles when employed…

This aerospace education learning packet contains information about the famous pilot, Charles A. Lindbergh. Posters, recommended teaching methods, tests with keys, and task cards are also included. (KHR)

Noting that it is vital to pay careful attention to designing the reading curriculum, this document outlines the following issues: objectives in reading curriculum; learning activities; methods of teaching; assessment of student achievement; supervision in the reading curriculum; and philosophy of evaluation. Questions which arise pertaining to…

Many Asian countries have strong elements of nationalistic education in their civic education. In 1996, a year before the return of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China, a new official "Guidelines on Civic Education in Schools" was issued by the Education Department. This document proposes a curriculum framework with equal emphasis on human…

A discussion of methods by which industrial arts teachers can implement strategies incorporating the career education concept into industrial education emphasizes the point that the new directions suggested by the concept of career education will increase the need for industrial education, rather than replacing it. (SA)

The author details graph exercises and solutions, coordinated with a "new textbook," to explain gas laws for isoprocesses, the first law of thermodynamics, and heat transfer. (JH)

Article presented proposals for "mosaic programming", a different approach to general education for community colleges and universities. (Author/RK)

Author is optimistic that schools of future will stress the how of teaching rather than the what of teaching, and that they will be open plan stressing independent study. (DS)

Presents the plans and objectives of the Canada Studies Foundation which is designed to improve the quality of studies about Canada in the school systems of the ten provinces. (Author/RB)

The war in Vietnam created a new curriculum on peace education. The new courses, known also as Peace Studies, take an interdisciplinary approach combining sociology, history, philosophy, morality, economics, futuristics, and political science. (DS)

Describes major theses of Piaget's work on development of intelligence. Implications of this work are significant in terms of methods, curriculum, and sequence of topics and activities used in science classrooms. Author cautions, however, that work of other child psychologists should not be completely forgotten because of Piaget's ideas. (PS)