This document articulates the goals and objectives of the elementary developmental guidance program in the Orange County, Florida Public Schools system. The stated foundation is that developmental guidance is founded in the belief that each student is unique and singular, possessing intrinsic worth and specific rights. The focus is on sequential…

Six articles help elementary teachers cultivate students' critical thinking skills across the curriculum with activities like examining past predictions and future forecasting, exploring science via ice and snow, strengthening critical reading through visual clues, discussing prediction using mathematical patterns, and studying vision with a…

Describes discovery learning, a teaching method that encourages students to use inductive reasoning. Students explore and experiment using the skill or idea being taught; they determine rules, make generalizations, and discover concepts. The teacher acts as coach, advisor, and reinforcer. A student page offers a discovery learning game on capital…