Curricula category: 1261 books
10 Great Curricula
Lived Conversations of Progressive, Democratic Curricula in School and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
With: Susan L. M. Bartow, Lara A. Chatman, Daniel Ciamarra, Christopher L. Cox, Dawn Mann, Kevin J. Smith, Kevin M. Talbert, Mary A. Webb and Amy Fisher Young. 10 Great Curricula is a collection of stories written by educators who have come to understand curricula differently as a result of their engagement...
High-Expectation Curricula
Helping All Students Succeed with Powerful Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Despite growing evidence that all students will benefit from engaging and challenging instruction, many struggling students continue to experience a circumscribed curriculum that emphasizes low-level skills. Featuring contributions from emerging and well-known researchers, this important volume...
Learning at the Ends of Life
Children, Elders, and Literacies in Intergenerational Curricula
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Intergenerational learning programs bring together skipped generations (for instance, elders and young children) to promote expansive communication and identity options for participants, as well as the forging of relationships between generations. More specifically, these programs help foster multimodal...
Rethinking Schooling
Twenty-Five Years of the Journal of Curriculum Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Taking a collection of seminal articles from the Journal of Curriculum Studies, this book offers readers a vantage point for thinking about the worlds of schools and curricula, focusing in particular on the concept of seeing schools, curricula and teaching in new ways. Each of the chapters sheds fresh...
The Go-To Guide for Engineering Curricula, Grades 6-8
Choosing and Using the Best Instructional Materials for Your Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
How to engineer change in your middle school science classroom
With the Next Generation Science Standards, your students won’t just be scientists—they’ll be engineers. But you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Seamlessly weave engineering and technology concepts into your middle school...
Understanding the School Curriculum
Theory, politics and principles
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
At a time of rapid social change and numerous policy initiatives, there is a need to question the nature and function of school curricula and the purposes of formal public education. Comparing curriculum developments around the globe, Understanding the School Curriculum draws on a range of educational,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula is the second volume in the edited series Honors Education in Transition, which examines the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education,...
African Diaspora Literacy
The Heart of Transformation in K–12 Schools and Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This book demonstrates the application of African Diaspora Literacy in K–12 schools and teacher education programs. The book emerged from a four-week Fulbright-Hays Group Abroad project to Cameroon, West Africa, which was focused on African Diaspora Literacy. The project was guided by the African...
East-Asian Primary Science Curricula
An Overview Using Revised Bloom's Taxonomy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This book describes a comparative study of the primary science learning objectives (from the cognitive domain) in the curriculum of six high-achieving East Asian states — mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Singapore. Specifically, the authors use one of the most widely accepted...
Early Childhood Curriculum in Chinese Societies
Policies, Practices, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Although Chinese societies have generally become striking as the classic over-achievers in international measures of academic performance, there has been no specialised publication exploring early childhood curriculum in Chinese contexts. Through this book, readers will learn more about how the Chinese...
The Death and Resurrection of a Coherent Literature Curriculum
What Secondary English Teachers Can Do
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
This book is addressed to teachers who know that the secondary literature curriculum in our public schools is in shambles. Unless experienced and well-read English teachers can develop coherent and increasingly demanding literature curricula in their schools, average high school students will remain...
by Robin J. Fogarty, Brian Mitchell Pete
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
This updated resource offers ten models that allow teachers to work together to create learner-centered classrooms by grouping elements from various content areas into a coherent, standards-based curriculum.
Collaboration and the Future of Education
Preserving the Right to Think and Teach Historically
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Current educational reforms have given rise to various types of "educational Taylorism," which encourage the creation of efficiency models in pursuit of a unified way to teach. In history education curricula, this has been introduced through scripted textbook-based programs such as Teacher...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Using "cultures of curriculum" as a lens, this clear, compelling text reveals and critically examines the belief systems and classroom practices of curricular orientations in contemporary American society. It is designed to foster awareness, examination, and deliberation about the curricula...