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Download full textRosenberg, Jan – 1996
This essay relates the way educator Dorothy Howard intuitively used intercultural education techniques to motivate students. Howard encouraged students to relate home experiences and family traditions when fulfilling writing assignments. She also used the rhymes, rhythms, and metaphors of playground games to study poetry, grammar, composition, and…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Folk Culture, Language Arts
Jones, Beau Fly, Ed.; And Others – 1987
This collection of essays focuses on the "strategic teaching" model of cognitive instruction, a model which makes clear the complex thinking process that teaching is, highlights the importance of the teaching/learning connection, and aims at enabling all types of students to become successful learners. The papers consider the varied levels at…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Development
Tolman, Marvin N.; Allred, Ruel A. – 1984
The findings of research on computers and teaching are reviewed in this monograph, both to provide useful guidelines for teachers, and to serve as a reference point for further research. Research results are organized around the following topics: (1) computer availability and use; (2) classroom applications--computer assisted instruction, computer…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Managed Instruction
Sunal, Cynthia Szymanski; And Others – 1993
Elementary preservice teachers (n=185) in a blocked program of methods courses developed integrated thematic units focusing on social studies and science that viewed reading, language arts, and mathematics as tools students use to study the major content areas in the elementary school program: social studies and science. This was a complex task…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Arts
Cheney, Lynne V. – 1987
An extensive study of humanities education in the nation's public schools, commissioned by the United States Congress, concludes that history, literature, and languages are inadequately taught, and most students fail to learn important knowledge about their shared past and culture. Data from a nation-wide survey reveal gross ignorance of major…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Core Curriculum, Culture, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedBolding, Robert A.; And Others – Southern Social Studies Journal, 1994
Asserts that, although international understanding is essential for survival, most high school students do not acquire the necessary skills and knowledge for competing in the global community. Finds that geographic knowledge can be integrated into literature courses and includes exemplary lesson plans. (CFR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Content Area Reading, Educational Objectives, English Curriculum
