Learning is most effective when the scientific context used in the classroom is a transformed extension of the students' real world and so inspires students' intrinsic motivation, encouraging students to ask meaningful questions and seek their own answers through an inquiry or investigative approach. The Student Owned Learning Model (SOLM)…

Defines economic awareness as a critical awareness of the use of scarce resources. Identifies the three major perspectives of economic awareness as knowledge, procedure and needs-based. States that it is possible to coalesce these perspectives into a fourth eclectic perspective, and to provide guidelines for teachers in line with the national…

This article examines the implications of the Primary Strategy for primary school teachers. It focuses on the framework for learning and teaching across the curriculum (DfES, 2003, Chapter 3 "Excellent primary teaching") and questions whether the new framework is in fact a return to a "whole" curriculum approach. The key issues explored are:…

This booklet, developed by England's Department for Education and Employment, provides information and teaching strategies to support the teaching of speaking and listening skills and develop confidence as speakers and listeners, by providing models, carefully planned activities and tasks that promote different kinds of talk and listening, and…

This resource guide, which is intended to help Virginia elementary school teachers integrate technology education into their instructional programs, reviews programs and learning activities designed to help students develop problem-solving skills and technological awareness. Discussed in the introduction are the following: the elementary school…