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Irwin, Carol C.; Irwin, Richard L.; Hays, Brandon – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2011
Integrative curriculum has been noted as a best practice toward effective learning. Quality physical educators struggle and search for different ways to integrate other content areas (e.g.., language arts, math, and social studies) into their daily lessons; however, due to budgetary limitations, they must find ways to do so with educationally…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Integrated Curriculum, Program Descriptions, Curriculum Implementation
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Diehl, Sandra J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
Building health literacy skills among adult learners has the potential to contribute to efforts to eliminate health disparities and improve health outcomes. Adults with limited literacy skills are more likely to be underserved by health services and at risk for poorer health. Recognition of the need for stronger health literacy skills and a desire…
Descriptors: Health Services, Health Promotion, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education
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Lee, Virginia S. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Inquiry-guided learning (IGL) has widespread appeal in higher education as a suite of teaching strategies that promotes learning through students' increasingly independent investigation of questions, problems, and issues using the methods of inquiry of the disciplines. Framed as especially appropriate for research universities, IGL has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation
Maker, C. June – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2005
C. June Maker, Professor at the University of Arizona, has developed a unique performance-based assessment in which children are observed by teams of teachers, counselors, paraprofessionals, administrators, specialists in education of the gifted and bilingual education, and local community members. The assessment, designed initially to …
Descriptors: Gifted, Bilingual Education, Problem Solving, Program Effectiveness