This report presents a case study evaluation of a mastery system of individualized instruction called Project Excellence at Ecole Secondaire Cochrane High School, Ontario. The curriculum consists of 20-unit learning guides in all courses. Students work in subject area resource centers and consult with teachers as needed. Teachers act as…

Students can and should be involved in curriculum committees. Greater commitment to decisions is likely to result. The involvement process used in developing curriculum might be as important in assuring effectiveness of that curriculum as is the content itself, for learning is an active process. Moreover, the answer to most of the problems that…

The three broad goals of career education--learning to live, learning to learn, and learning to make a living--should be integrated into a lifelong educational process for the prime purpose of assisting every individual to become a fully capacitated, self-motivated, self-fulfilled, contributing member of society. The "guidelines" consider the role…

Discusses how one school district involved students in curriculum planning as an outgrowth of a district-wide unit in leisure-time study. (FL)

Discusses the conflicting roles of the various actors involved in curriculum development and suggests several strategies for resolving the power struggle that presently characterizes curriculum development. Available from Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1701 K Street, N.W., Suite 1100, Washington, D.C. 20006, single copies,…

Noting that the first decade of the new millennium is sure to see continuing efforts to reform curriculum and classroom practices by implementing the middle school concept, this booklet answers middle school teachers' most pressing questions about the cornerstone of the middle school concept, integrated curriculum. The 20 questions addressed…

Discusses the philosophical underpinnings of alternatives to public education. (Author/RK)

The Association of American Colleges' recent critical report on the state of the college curriculum and its instruction is analyzed and its implications for educational reform are discussed. (MSE)

Provides a critique of how student voice has been positioned in curriculum innovation drawing on an evaluation of physical education as a subject in senior secondary school in Australia. Stresses that educators must consider how (rather than why) students' engagement in constructing their own schooling experience could be more explicit. (CMK)

Narrates one year in the life of a fourth-grade class that moved from teacher-directed to student-initiated learning, or what is referred to as "emergent curriculum." Encourages readers to reconsider students' and teachers' roles in developing curriculum. Describes changes over time in physical environment, academic curriculum, and…

The paper is intended as a guide to the levels curriculum for teachers of emotionally handicapped secondary students. The levels curriculum is introduced as a motivational system for behavioral improvement based on a series of steps with increasing student priveleges and responsibilities. Students develop individual goals and learn communication,…

This paper forucses on the problems and challenges facing the American teacher working in Europe. The discussion is divided into 16 main topics: (1) the limited teaching opportunities in Europe, (2) standardized procedures for employment, (3) the teaching contract, (4) assignment at different levels, (5) teaching benefits, (6) daily changes in the…

Examines the role of the college student as an active decision-maker in instruction. Eight variables (pacing, reinforcers, contingencies, sequencing, mode, feedback, content and objectives, and discriminative control) are described and discussed in the context of student choice, and issues which student choice highlights are examined. (Editor/JT)