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Simmons, Sally Lynn; El-Hindi, Amelia E. – Middle School Journal, 1998
Discusses six transformations in teachers' thinking to facilitate implementation of integrative curriculum. The transformations include rethinking the teacher as a curriculum theorist, reconceptualizing the roles of teachers and students, affirming student voices, conceptualizing authentic assessment, and restructuring the classroom environment.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Attitude Change, Beliefs, Classroom Environment

Johnson, Bonnie von Hoff; Johnson, Dale D. – Middle School Journal, 1998
Discusses a training course for middle school teachers that requires the cooperative student development of an integrated, thematic teaching unit based upon an ordinary object or idea, such as food. Describes the steps to developing the units and provides examples of interesting facts teachers and students learned. (JPB)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development
Levin, Ben – Education Canada, 2000
Democracy in education has many facets: mass access to education, democratic governance of schools, education about citizenship, and education for citizenship. The skills and dispositions necessary for effective democracy can only be learned by practicing them, yet most secondary students have neither political rights nor a political role. Student…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Citizenship Education, Democracy, Foreign Countries
Thomas, Nancy – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2000
Reviews a variety of information models developed to provide support for student research that will help school library media specialists meet the needs of diverse learners when providing course integrated library instruction. Each model assumes learning as an active and creative process and promotes the development of critical thinking skills.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
Green, Madeleine F.; Baer, Michael – Community College Journal, 2002
Discusses ways in which a global perspective can influence the college mission and curriculum. Asks what the institution, acting in a global capacity, can do for its students, rather than what the global economy can do for the institution. Warns that in the rush to globalize, college leaders must be clear about their purpose and focus on the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Administrator Role, College Students, Community Colleges
Wang, Greg; Von Der Linn, Robert; Foucar-Szocki, Diane; Griffin, Oris; Sceiford, Erin – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2003
This study fills a gap in the current HRD [human resource development] literature of return on investment (ROI) analysis of technology-based learning interventions. Using a Type IV control group method as defined by Wang (2002), the study empirically analyzed and measured the learning effectiveness and the business impact of an e-learning system…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Outcomes of Education, Labor Force Development, Instructional Effectiveness
Larson, Debra; Ahonen, Anna-Maija – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2004
This paper is a case study on the use of active learning techniques in an upper-level engineering course at the Helsinki University of Technology. The paper describes how these techniques were introduced and successfully used within the Finnish university classroom. The cultural subtext is explored and attention is given to teaching techniques…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Engineering Education
Mason, Oliver J. – Psychology Teaching Review, 2002
This paper considers some of the problems inherent in teaching qualitative research methods within psychology. It stresses the use of a reflective approach to course design that aims to "emancipate" students in their own study and research, as well as equipping them with a combination of practical and theoretical skills. In addition to a brief…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Psychological Studies, Research Methodology, Active Learning
Greene, Kathleen; Donovan, Sam – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2005
In the process of designing and field-testing bioinformatics curriculum materials, we have adopted a three-stage, progressive model that emphasizes collaborative scientific inquiry. The elements of the model include: (1) context setting, (2) introduction to concepts, processes, and tools, and (3) development of competent use of technologically…
Descriptors: Biology, Information Science, Science Instruction, College Science
Sommers, Jeffrey – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2004
The scholarship of teaching has its roots in reflective teaching practice. Every time a teacher is taken by surprise at something that has occurred in a course, whether he or she prefers that it not be repeated, or that it take place regularly, an opportunity exists for the scholarship of teaching to begin. In this essay, the author's intent is to…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, College Faculty, English Teachers, College English
Weissman, Julie; Boning, Kenneth J. – Journal of General Education, 2003
Extensive assessment of innovative core courses pointed to five features of the courses that led to students being actively engaged in learning. Faculty teaching the courses created an environment to foster collaborative learning, facilitated student ownership of learning, structured their courses to connect academic ideas with other disciplines…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, General Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Classroom Environment
Smith, Louise W.; Van Doren, Doris C. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2004
Active and experiential learning theory have not dramatically changed collegiate classroom teaching methods, although they have long been included in the pedagogical literature. This article presents an evolved method, reality based learning, that aids professors in including active learning activities with feelings of clarity and confidence. The…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Experiential Learning, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
Schwebel, David C.; Schwebel, Milton – College Teaching, 2002
Lectures remain the primary method of instruction in higher education despite several limitations: Students typically lose interest during hour-long lectures, lectures lead to rote learning by some students, and lectures do not lead to development of higher-level conceptual thinking skills. As an alternative to a lecture on the topic, an active…
Descriptors: Rote Learning, Nonverbal Communication, Lecture Method, Thinking Skills
Baker, Thomas R.; White, Steven H. – Journal of Geography, 2003
This paper examines a non-equivalent quasi-experimental research effort, wherein two versions of a two week Project Based Learning unit were developed, implemented, and assessed. Students used a collaborative GIS or paper maps to support data analysis activities in this eighth grade Earth science unit. Attitude and self-efficacy in science as…
Descriptors: Geography, Information Systems, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy
Ali, Sanwar – Mathematics and Computer Education, 2005
Teaching is a scholarly activity and a life-long learning process with no single method or pedagogy that is always most effective. Applications of teaching pedagogies properly vary from content-based to discipline-based areas. In this paper, various teaching pedagogies, including scaffolding, concept mapping, constructivism, and learning…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Problem Based Learning, Learning Strategies, Constructivism (Learning)