Describes an asynchronous electronic seminar and support group for student teachers. Notes that the discussions focused on teaching strategies, curriculum design, resources for reading and writing, and classroom management. Suggests that the seminar introduced future writing teachers to the benefits of peer collaboration. Offers a model to assist…

Defines service learning and its core concepts, and how it differs from traditional education in the health professions, discussing how such programs can benefit students, faculty, communities, higher education institutions, as well as relationships among all these groups. Recommended resources for integrating service learning into the medical…

Interest in women's issues in India has grown since 1975, when a report on the status of women raised concern about women's equality. Women's studies entered India's university curriculum only in 1986 but with little encouragement from the emerging women's movement. In India, women's studies looks to the West for research methods and ideas and is…

Discusses and exemplifies the process of personalizing a curriculum for students with developmental disabilities that is characterized by a rational, responsible, and responsive approach to planning and delivering support in integrated educational settings. Presents two compatible models of delivery: Cooperative Teaching and Community-based…

Chronicles the process of reforming the liberal education program at Franklin Pierce College (New Hampshire), organized around the theme of the individual and community. Discusses objectives in integrating the "civic arts" into the core curriculum and challenges encountered in balancing "individual" and "community"…

Compares the stated educational philosophy of several colleges and universities in 1896-97 with the contemporary version, focusing on the role of moral values in the curriculum. Institutions discussed include the University of Maine, University of North Dakota, Washington State University, Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania), Stetson University…

Technology can contribute to increased learning productivity by offering economies of scale and mass customization, enabling faculty to accommodate individual differences and students to progress at their own pace. The areas that can profit most from technology-based strategies are those that have a high volume of students, a standardized…

A teacher compares his former position as an assistant professor preparing teachers of students with hearing impairments with his present position as an administrator of a public school program serving these students. The emphasis of teacher education programs on self-contained or residential school settings instead of inclusive schools is…

This article presents the mission and conceptual framework of the REACH Institute, which is engaged in a five-year program of research on teaching for understanding with students with disabilities. It describes several common features of the institute research stands in social studies, language arts, science, and mathematics, and emerging themes.…

This interview with Joyce VanTassel-Baska discusses the growth of talent search programs to identify highly gifted students via the Scholastic Aptitude Test and the role of computer technology in what can be offered to gifted students. Also identified are key characteristics of gifted elementary, middle, and secondary school programs. (CR)

Concepts from universal design in architecture are applied to development of educational curricula and materials that include supports for access for a range of students including those with disabilities. This article traces the development of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and describes a project that developed both a model digital U.S.…

Proposes, on the basis of a host of curricular factors, a stratification of foreign language programs in U.S. institutions of higher learning into two graded and curricularly distinctive phases. The initial phase would be comprised predominantly of nonmajors who enroll in beginning courses to satisfy a language requirement. The professional phase…

This article examines the problems of the intermediate-level foreign-language course as well as student attitudes and goals derived from survey data. (33 references) (CK)

Defends the emphasis on aural, oral, and writing skills in the teaching of Latin in today's high schools as a means of helping students make a connection between the past and present and gain the knowledge needed to function in the next century. The article emphasizes that teachers who pursue new ways to teach Latin are reanimating interest in the…

The Honors College at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County has an interdisciplinary curriculum rich in the liberal arts, serves a diverse student population, and frequently takes advantage of the cultural resources of the Baltimore metropolitan area. The college attempts to make intellectual exercise for its own sake available to as wide…