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Sun Yee Yip; Urmee Chakma – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
This scoping review examines the literature on teaching Indigenous knowledge and perspectives in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes. The study explores how these programmes integrate Indigenous knowledge and perspectives into their curriculum and pedagogy to prepare teachers to work with Indigenous students and communities. The review…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Journal Articles
Jeff Irvine; Wendy Telford; Paul Alves; Amanda Cloutier – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has been called an educational catastrophe. It caused massive disruptions in education, learning loss for students, and massive increases in teacher workloads, stress, and health-related issues. There were significant issues of student disengagement and rampant cheating on assessments. This paper looks not at the huge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary School Mathematics
Nomme, Kathy; Birol, Gülnur – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
A first year non-majors biology course, with an enrollment of around 440 students, has been redesigned from a course of traditional content and teaching style to one that emphasizes biological concepts in current global issues and incorporates active learning strategies. We were informed by the education literature incorporating many aspects of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Evidence, Curriculum Development, Biology
Brewer, Sharon E.; Cinel, Bruno; Harrison, Michelle; Mohr, Christina L. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
In delivering chemistry courses by distance, a key challenge is to offer the learner an authentic and meaningful laboratory experience that still provides the rigour required to continue on in science. To satisfy this need, two distance general chemistry laboratory courses appropriate for Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) students, including chemistry…
Descriptors: Distance Education, College Freshmen, Laboratory Training, Chemistry
Drake, Susan; Racknor, Wendy – Education Canada, 2011
The focus of Ontario's educational reform is literacy and numeracy, and there is a move to teach literacy in all subject areas. Teachers are also to include character education and environmental awareness in instructional planning. Curriculum guidelines direct teachers to teach cross-disciplinary core concepts--Big Ideas such as change, systems,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Instructional Development, Curriculum Development, Literacy
Evers, Frederick; Wolstenholme, Janet – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
The focus of this paper is the curriculum development process that led to the intentional integration of knowledge, skills, and values in every course at a newly created institution, the University of Guelph-Humber (G-H). Among the many unique features of G-H, the integration of theory and practice in each course is one of the most important. The…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Integrated Curriculum, Instructional Development, Higher Education
Alberta Education, 2008
With the advent of faster and widely accessible information, communication and transportation technologies, people are living in an era where their actions increasingly influence and are influenced by realities in other parts of the world. Truly understanding their own communities, province and country requires gaining a deep understanding of the …
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Global Education
Hubball, Harry; Gold, Neil; Mighty, Joy; Britnell, Judy – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
This article provides an overview of one Canadian provincially initiated curriculum reform effort in which several generic learning outcomes were established. It also presents a flexible, practical, and integrated framework for the development, implementation, and evaluation of program-level learning outcomes in undergraduate curricula contexts.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Undergraduate Study, Formative Evaluation, Intellectual Development
Pinder, Karen E.; Ford, Jason C.; Ovalle, William K. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2008
To address the critical problem of inadequate physician supply in rural British Columbia, The University of British Columbia (UBC) launched an innovative, expanded and distributed medical program in 2004-2005. Medical students engage in a common curriculum at three geographically distinct sites across B.C.: in Vancouver, Prince George and…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Medical Schools, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1998
Canada's provincial programs of study are legal documents that state what students are expected to learn and expected to do in all subjects and grades. In Alberta, programs of study exist for elementary, junior high school, and senior high school students. These programs contain two types of information: a philosophy of learning, which includes…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Walker, Laurie – 1999
This paper critically examines outcomes-based education (OBE), focusing on the two widely differing jurisdictions of the Province of Alberta in Western Canada and the Republic of South Africa. The paper begins by explaining the nature of OBE, including the topics: principles and origin of OBE; research findings; resistance to OBE in the United…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Simmt, Elaine, Ed.; Davis, Brent, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2001
This document contains the proceedings of the 2001 annual meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG) held at the University of Alberta, May 25-39, 2000. The proceedings consist of two plenary lectures, four working groups, five topic sessions, new Ph.D. reports, an AD Hoc Session, and panel discussions. Papers include: (1)…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnomathematics
Velazquez, Robert – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1990
This paper discusses methods used to differentiate the presentation of mathematics to gifted students in Ontario, Canada. Activities are described that help students to develop structured inquiry, reinforce categorization skills, develop efficient study habits, and encourage probing and divergent questions. (JDD)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Simmt, Elaine, Ed.; Davis, Brent, Ed.; McLoughlin, John Grant, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2000
This document contains the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG) held at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada, May 26-30, 2000. The proceedings consist of two plenary lectures, five working groups, four topic sessions, new Ph.D. reports, and panel discussions. Papers include: (1)…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Jain, Sushil K. – 1987
This overview of the issues involved in introducing educational computing into a school system at either the district, building, or classroom level begins by defining the terms "educational computing" and "computer literacy." A discussion of the curriculum development process focuses on the role of educational technologies in…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software