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Norman, Taylor A.; Wall, Amanda – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2020
Curriculum integration is a hallmark of middle level education. This approach to education involves blending topics across content areas as a way of studying topics and problems of interest to young adolescents. Approaches to curriculum integration and interdisciplinary curriculum overlap with concepts like democratic education, place-based…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Middle Schools, Interdisciplinary Approach, Place Based Education
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Nguyen, Ha; Eisenreich, Heidi – Georgia Educational Researcher, 2018
This pilot qualitative study explored K-8 pre-service teachers' (PSTs') learning experience in a Statistics and Probability course and their ability to make connections between mathematics and their everyday lives when given opportunities to investigate mathematics through a social issue. Data from student surveys, assessments, and written…
Descriptors: School Choice, Mathematics Education, Statistics, Probability
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Terry, Alice W.; Head, Catherine – Educational Renaissance, 2013
A university near a major city in Georgia and a large, urban school district established a Professional Development School (PDS) in which the majority of junior and senior-level preservice teacher coursework and fieldwork took place at seven urban, high-needs public schools. The purpose of this study was to provide preliminary feedback to the…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Urban Teaching, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Smoot, Sharene L. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2011
Teachers in rural areas are finding that more and more special needs children are being included in their K-12 classrooms to comply with the mandate for a free and appropriate public education even in isolated small school systems. For students with mild intellectual disabilities (MID) this placement is meant to accomplish both the academic and…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Inclusion, Rural Areas, Interpersonal Competence