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Direct linkAída Walqui, Editor; George C. Bunch, Editor; Peggy Mueller, Editor – Teachers College Press, 2025
Expanded and revised to include four entirely new chapters, this thoroughly updated edition presents a model for how educators can design high-quality, challenging, and supportive learning opportunities for multilingual learners. Starting with the premise that conceptual, analytic, and language practices develop simultaneously as students engage…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Quality, Spanish, Native Language
Albert Biel, Editor; Fabian Maria Esleben, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2025
Because of its focus on mutual understanding, the language classroom is uniquely situated to discuss and enact ideas about social justice. This book brings together authors from different geographical and professional contexts united by a common goal: to bring about a change in language teacher education and language classrooms. The chapters…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedMix, Kelly S., Ed.; Battista, Michael T., Ed. – Research in Mathematics Education, 2018
This unique volume surveys recent research on spatial visualization in mathematics in the fields of cognitive psychology and mathematics education. The general topic of spatial skill and mathematics has a long research tradition, but has been gaining attention in recent years, although much of this research happens in disconnected subfields. This…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Spatial Ability, Problem Solving
Harrison, Lisa M., Ed.; Hurd, Ellis, Ed.; Brinegar, Kathleen, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2020
Originally published as a special issue of the "Middle School Journal," this book presents integrative curriculum as a foundational element of the middle school. By addressing the current gap in literature on curriculum integration in the middle grades, this text explores how learning can be organized around authentic concepts or…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Integrated Curriculum, Middle School Teachers, Teaching Methods
Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen, Ed.; Félix-Brasdefer, J. César, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2016
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 2014 International Conference of Pragmatics and Language Learning at Indiana University. It includes fourteen papers on a variety of topics, with a diversity of first and second languages, and a wide range of methods used to collect pragmatic data in L2 and FL settings. This volume is…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
Winter, Dave, Ed.; Robbins, Sarah, Ed. – National Council of Teachers of English, 2005
Emphasizing writing and student inquiry, this rich collection offers teachers ready-to-use classroom resources with a sound basis in best practice. Student engagement with community becomes the centerpiece of the book, an engagement that takes place across disciplines through projects involving history, environment, culture, and much more. Editors…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Place Based Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Download full textIllinois Art Education Association, Aurora. – 1990
This publication includes descriptions of arts programs, units of study, lesson plans, and course outlines submitted by Illinois arts teachers who answered the invitation to document their successful approaches to art edication. This compilation was not designed to be prescriptive, but to be representative of activities in Illinois. The articles…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Criticism, Art Education, Art History
Barker, Bruce, Comp; Christian, Duane, Comp. – 1988
This document contains a collection of eight selected secondary level units of study about Japan. Individual units were planned and written by teachers who participated in the first Southwest Program for Teaching about Japan (SPTAJ) study tour to that country during 1987. Unit topics include: (1) "An Introduction To Japanese Medicine"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials, Lesson Plans, Resource Units
Whitty, Helen, Ed. – 2003
This collection of teaching units developed in Australia arises from "Special Forever: An Environmental Communications Project," which enables students to develop critical awareness of their local environments and communicate this awareness effectively. The project also aims to encourage school-based action in support of the environment…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
Herrin, Roberta T., Ed.; Davis, Sarah K., Ed. – 1989
Chronicling a year-long project to study fantasy literature, this book presents essays, teaching units, student writing, and "jack tales." The project chronicled in the book consisted of a 3-week intensive study program for librarians and teachers of grades 2 through 7 throughout the Appalachian region, followed up by two more meetings…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
Herrin, Roberta T., Ed.; Davis, Sarah K., Ed. – 1992
Chronicling a year-long project to study fantasy literature, this book presents essays, teaching units, student writing models, and "jack tales." The project chronicled in the book consisted of a 4-week intensive study program for librarians and teachers of grades 2 through 7 throughout the Appalachian region, followed up by two more…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
Ritchhart, Ron, Ed. – 1997
In six sites across the United States teams of teachers began creating "portfolio cultures"--classrooms where growth towards high common standards and reflection was emphasized for both students and teachers. Working groups of teachers became involved in a 2-year process to develop curriculum. This book is a part of this series…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Functions (Mathematics), Inquiry
National Committee on United States-China Relations, New York, NY. – 1992
Written by U.S. teachers who traveled to China in 1991, this document contains a compilation of curriculum projects about China. The projects include: "China Via the Five Fundamental Themes of Geography" (S. Cassady); "Jiemei (Sister): An Analysis of the History and Role of Women in the People's Republic of China" (M.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials, International Relations
Anderson, Betty – 1982
Children's books can be used to expand knowledge and increase interest in the content areas. The social understanding that first and second grade students gain from a unit on family relationships and friendships will be richer if literature is an integral part of the instruction. Titles for such a unit might include "Charlotte's Web," by E.B.…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education
Singelis, Theodore M., Ed. – 1998
This book is a resource for teachers that contains 28 exercises and planned activities designed by individual authors that can be used to teach about culture, ethnicity, and diversity. The exercises and activities are appropriate for graduate, college, and even advanced high school students in such classes as cross-cultural psychology,…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Diversity (Student)
