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Cheung, K. C.; Taylor, Robert – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1991
Reviews theoretical developments in science education and integrates them into a humanistic constructivist model of science learning. Applies this model to the new English national science curriculum. Explains the changing focus in science curriculum and pedagogy. Discusses theories of science learning in relation to the Education Reform Act…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Concept Teaching, Curriculum Design
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Christensen, Lois; And Others – Southern Social Studies Journal, 1995
Outlines an instructional unit on the geography of Mexico, organizing daily lesson plans around geographic themes. The five themes of geography are location, place, relationships, movement, and regions. Each lesson plan includes objectives, materials, activities utilizing different learning strategies, and closure. (MJP)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Discovery Learning, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning
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Wenglinsky, Harold – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2004
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 calls for improving test scores of minority students in third through eighth grades, making middle level schools a key venue for closing the racial gap in achievement. This study, by analyzing data on the 15,000 eighth graders who took the 2000 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics,…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, National Competency Tests
Scarborough, Jule Dee – Online Submission, 2007
This Northern Illinois University College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) initiative represents the authors' first attempt to prepare engineering and technology professors for teaching to improve student learning and the Scholarship of Teaching. This college portfolio is nontraditional in that it combines a learning paper approach…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness, Worksheets, Teaching Models
Weikart, Phyllis S.; Carlton, Elizabeth B. – 1995
The eight chapters in this book explain a teaching model to help students develop their kinesthetic intelligence through purposeful movement education. The major focus is the kindergarten through third grade child, but because in movement one can be a "beginner" at any age, movement experiences of both older and younger learners are occasionally…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Body Image, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Certification and Accreditation. – 1994
The state of Maryland views learning to teach as a developmental process in which there is continuous engagement with research, best practice, and expert opinion. This publication identifies 10 performance-based standards for the career-long development of teachers and teacher candidates. Learning to teach is viewed as a continuous learning cycle…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education
Their World, 1996
The 26 articles in this annual on learning disabilities (LD) are organized into the following categories: research articles, educator resources, educational practices, creativity, professional insights, the LD experience of youth and adults, explaining LD to a child, and parents' trials and tribulations. The articles are: "National Institute…
Descriptors: Art Education, Attribution Theory, Child Rearing, Creativity
West, Daniel J.; Watson, Diane E. – 1996
This paper proposes an alternative approach to the traditional education paradigm that has prepared students for the old health care environment. In a changing health care environment, problem based learning (PBL) is achieving popularity primarily because educational outcomes parallel the skills and abilities desired of future clinicians and…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Learning, Allied Health Occupations Education, Andragogy
Kansas Univ., Lawrence. – 1996
Twenty-two abstracts of papers presented at a symposium on the psychological development of gifted children comprise this document. Abstracts typically include the title of the paper; the author's name, title, institutional affiliation, location, telephone number, and electronic mail address; and a summary of the paper ranging from a short…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adults, Child Development, Creativity
Stefanich, Greg P.; Egelston-Dodd, Judy, Ed. – 1995
This proceedings report includes papers presented at a conference on teaching science to students with disabilities. In the first paper, "Family Pedigrees: A Model Lesson Illustrating Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities in a Mainstreamed High School Biology Class" (Kathleen Ball and Edward C. Keller, Jr.), strategies are described…
Descriptors: Biology, Disabilities, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Loughran, John; Gunstone, Richard – 1996
This paper explores perspectives on self-study in teaching and in research through a longitudinal school-based professional development program for science teachers. The exploration focused on two broad perspectives: (1) self-study can be both personal and collaborative; and (2) self-study can be of teaching and of research. The professional…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Research, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Jesus, Saul Neves de; Paixao, Maria Paula – 1996
Entrance into the teaching profession is often a situation of disappointment or "reality shock." As shown by previous researchers, teacher burnout is higher in the beginning of the career. Among the causes are inadequate initial teacher training and the lack of initial motivation. In order to study this phenomenon, the transition of 214…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Career Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Garland, Corinne W.; Frank, Adrienne – 1996
This final report describes achievements and activities of the Trans/Team Outreach Project, a Virginia project to replicate a model of inservice training designed to help early childhood intervention teams move toward more family-centered, transdisciplinary service delivery for young children with disabilities and their families. Trans/Team…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
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deGarcia, Barbara Gerner – 1997
This paper describes Project THREADS (Transformations for Humanistic and Responsive Education for All Deaf Students), a program to develop a model for increasing the multicultural competence of inservice teachers of the deaf. Project THREADS is designed to facilitate changes in individual teachers and changes in their institutions while working to…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Culturally Relevant Education, Deafness, Distance Education
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LaSasso, Carol J.; Metzger, Melanie A. – 1997
This paper describes Bilingual-Bicultural (BiBi) instructional programs for students with hearing impairments and proposes a model for BiBi instruction which uses parents as partners with instructors to develop the linguistic abilities of hearing-impaired students. In the model, traditionally spoken languages are conveyed via cued speech instead…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education Programs, Cued Speech
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