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Preparing High School Students for the Interdisciplinary Nature of Modern Biology
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Nagle, Barbara – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2013
Fostering interdisciplinary learning in biology will require significant changes in the way one teaches science to K-12 students. The perspective on interdisciplinary biology teaching and learning in this essay is based on the author's experiences as a former research cell biologist, high school science teacher, and developer of secondary science…
Descriptors: Biology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Unified Studies Curriculum, Teaching Methods
High School Students' Perspectives on the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act's Definition of a Highly Qualified Teacher
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Garcia, Veronica – Harvard Educational Review, 2006
In this article, four urban high school students and their student leadership and social justice class advisor address the question, "What are high school students' perspectives on the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act's (NCLB) definition of a highly qualified teacher?" As the advisor to the course, Garcia challenged her students to examine…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, High School Students, High Schools, Personal Narratives
Planning & Assessing Standards Achievement: Schools Must Provide Teachers with Strategies They Can Use to Efficiently Turn School Standards Resources into Standards-Achieving Instruction
O'Shea, Mark R. – Leadership, 2005
In 2002, Principal Candy McCarthy of Alisal High School took a big risk on behalf of her teachers and students. Because her school had been designated "under-performing," she received supplemental funding for school improvement purposes. McCarthy decided to use all of the additional funds to purchase collaborative planning time for…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Teacher Collaboration, High Schools, Secondary School Teachers
An Inventive Use of the WWW as a Teaching and Learning Tool in Mathematics: Structured Web Materials for Courses across the Mathematics Canon
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McLoughlin, M. Padraig M. M. – Online Submission, 2003
The author of this paper submits that students have a natural inquisitiveness; hence, students must be active in learning. Thus, the student must learn to conjecture and prove or disprove said conjecture. Ergo, the purpose of the paper is to submit the thesis that learning with the use of the World Wide Web (WWW) can enhance the students'…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Internet, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Achievement