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Carlisle, E. Fred – English Journal, 1978
Presents several assumptions about scientific writing and from these derives teaching methods for a year-long sequence of writing courses for science freshmen. (DD)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Descriptions, Expository Writing, Higher Education
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Cunningham, Patricia M.; Cunningham, James W. – Clearing House, 1977
Sequencing is essential to survival in the real world and in the content-subject school world. It is also the hidden agenda in many content-area classrooms. If students are to improve their sequencing ability, teachers must become aware of the hidden, sequencing requirements in their curriculum. Describes some simple exercises for helping students…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Group Activities, Learning Activities, Program Descriptions
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Cahalan, James M. – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1986
Examines the debate between two approaches to teaching writing: imitation of classic models versus technical writing for the real world. Argues that, in either approach, a developmental sequence of assignments is paramount. Describes compromise course plan based on careers, in which students write research papers about vocations in which they are…
Descriptors: Assignments, Business English, Class Activities, Course Content
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LeRiche, Leo W. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1987
Examines the historical development of the expanding environments sequence in the elementary social studies curriculum. Concludes that the sequence is obsolete because it is based on the discredited idea that children relive the cultural history of their race as they develop. Argues for abandonment of expanding environments sequence because of its…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational History, Elementary Education
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Akenson, James E. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1987
Describes the evolution and growth in popularity of the expanding environments framework for elementary social studies. Its reliance on developmental psychology and its portrayal of an artificial, conflict-free world suggest flaws of major dimensions. Concludes that the near-universal adoption of the expanding environments approach may sustain its…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational History, Elementary Education
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Muir, Sharon Pray – Social Science Record, 1986
Presents many activity ideas for teaching young children about time using chronological events, clocks, and calendars. Jerome Bruner's enactive-iconic-symbolic sequence of concept development is used as a guide for these learning experiences. (LP)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Sequential Approach
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Cox, Dennis K. – Music Educators Journal, 1985
The Suzuki talent education method, which combines sequential learning with continual review, is described. The method can be used in developing high levels of musical awareness, technical skill, and artistry in extremely young performers from very different backgrounds. How teachers of choral music might use it is discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Choral Music, Concept Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Music Education
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Enos, Theresa – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1986
Presents sequential approach to writing instruction that draws on power of rhetoric to help students connect with real world. Exercises focus on country's literacy problem and allow students to work with all kinds of discourse in logical sequence while learning to summarize, to analyze their own and their classmates' styles, and to work with…
Descriptors: Literacy, Rhetoric, Sequential Approach, Two Year Colleges
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Sidwell, Duncan – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1984
Suggests that there are three phases in the foreign language teaching/learning process through which the learner progresses from dependence on the teacher to independence in utterance. These phases are: (1) presentation, (2) precommunicative activity, and (3) communicative activity. The second phase, which is often passed over, is discussed in…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Learning Processes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Sullivan, Peter; Mousley, Judy; Zevenbergen, Robyn – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
We are researching actions that teachers can take to improve mathematics learning for all students. Structural elements of the lessons being trialled include making aspects of pedagogy explicit to seek to overcome differences in familiarity with schooling processes, and sequencing tasks with the potential to engage students. This article reports…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Teaching Methods
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Poetker, Joel S. – Social Science Record, 1973
A sequential, problem-solving approach is offered as a strategy for the classroom teacher who wants to help the student increase his skills of inquiry, conceptual learning, and value clarification. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Guidelines, Inquiry, Problem Solving
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Sanders, Nicholas M.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
Differences in the rate of successive acquisition of four concepts as a result of two presentation conditions and their interaction with the learner's preferred strategy was investigated. (Authors)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Interaction Process Analysis, Learning Processes, Reaction Time
McAnarney, Harry E. – Sci Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Course Organization, Curriculum, Educational Programs, Elementary School Science
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Waters, Carrie Wherry; Bayroff, A. G. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1971
Descriptors: Ability, Comparative Analysis, Computer Programs, Measurement Techniques
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Badio, Josephine – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Authors, Cooperative Planning, Developing Nations, Instructional Materials
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