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Hardy, Fredericia P. – 1992
This paper describes a practicum that incorporated semantic mapping, "rich" context clue instruction, and teacher modeling into a 12-week instructional program for 18 Chapter 1 fourth-grade students in rural Georgia who had shown deficiency in vocabulary knowledge with standardized test scores below the 50th percentile in the second and…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Modeling (Psychology)

Pate, P. Elizabeth; And Others – Middle School Journal, 1993
Two eighth-grade teachers at a Georgia middle school recently redesigned their curriculum to emphasize problem-centered, hands-on learning projects focusing on issues relevant to students. To demonstrate what was learned, students and teachers employed various student projects assessed by using rubrics that define a wide range of acceptable and…
Descriptors: Expectation, Experiential Learning, Guidelines, Integrated Curriculum
Glazer, Evan – 2000
InterMath, a five-year effort funded through the National Science Foundation, is a statewide Internet-based project with the goal of designing and implementing a series of workshops and ongoing support programs that feature contemporary applications of technology and mathematics pedagogy in the middle grades. Technology is used to deliver the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development