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Walker, Decker F.; Soltis, Jonas F. – 1986
This book provides a broad perspective on the basic curriculum questions educators face in the schools regarding the purposes, content, design, and structure of educational programs. In discussing basic issues of curriculum theory, some questions are raised: (1) How have people structured educational programs and instruction in an attempt to serve…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
Robinson, Floyd G.; And Others – 1985
This book, working from an educator-defined set of curriculum tasks and their allotted time frames, provides a mechanism for linking instructional theory with classroom practices. Chapter titles are: (1) The Tasks of Curriculum Development; (2) Developing Major Goal Statements; (3) Assembling a Psychological Model for the Dominant Educable…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives

Simmons, Deborah C.; Kameenui, Edward J. – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1996
Discusses academic failure and the role of curriculum design in either intercepting or exacerbating learning difficulties. Evaluates changing student demographics and the diverse needs of students, and reviews the principles of effective curriculum design, including big ideas, conspicuous strategies, mediated scaffolding, strategic integration,…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Disabilities

Winebrenner, Susan – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2003
Suggestions for teaching students who are both gifted and learning disabled stresses providing them with compacting and differentiation in the areas of their strengths and direct instruction of learning strategies in their areas of weakness. The article also warns that the child's giftedness may go unnoticed and unaccommodated in favor of…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted Disabled
Hutmacher, Walo – 1997
A symposium was held in Berne, Switzerland, in March 1996 to define the key competencies that secondary students should acquire to prepare for either employment or higher education. This document summarizes the symposium discussions of plenary sessions and working groups, comprised of teachers and school managers. The conference participants…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives
Iatridis, Panayotis G. – 1990
An innovative curriculum called the "Regional Center Alternative Pathway," recently adopted by the Northwest Center for Medical Education (part of Indiana University's School of Medicine), is presented. The curriculum combines the traditional structure's didactic approach with a new problem-based tutorial curriculum. In this curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Higher Education
Ozar, Lorraine A. – 1994
This book offers an approach to curriculum decision making aimed at helping Catholic schools become or remain values-based, learning-centered communities for the 21st century. The outcomes-based approach argues that educators have three primary responsibilities--identify what is the significant learning, design valid ways for students to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools, Competence
Burch, Marti L.; Keilberg, Tamara – 1995
Teaming incorporates an ever expanding curriculum, without an overlapping of subjects, by a collaboration of teachers and students learning from one discipline to another. Through the teaming approach to teaching, the child gains from the emotional, motivational, and enrichment of interrelationships of different subject teachers. Stimulation for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Fused Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach
Jenkins, John M. – 1996
This book is addressed to high school principals, teachers, curriculum specialists, counselors, and other educators interested in creating sound change at the building level. The theme of constructivism and constructivist thought pervades the text. Part 1 introduces the reader to constructivism and offers comparisons of a high school based on…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Design, Educational Environment, Educational Innovation
Udall, Denis, Ed.; Mednick, Amy, Ed. – 1996
The founders of Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound drew on the metaphor of a wilderness expedition to develop a framework for curriculum design. During "learning expeditions," teachers and students pursue long-term intellectual investigations build around significant projects and performances. The investigations take students out into…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Active Learning, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Rasmussen, Geri; Skinner, Elizabeth – 1997
This monograph discusses learning communities in the context of community colleges, presents the challenges and benefits of learning communities, provides examples, and outlines the steps for a community college to follow in initiating a learning community. In part 1, the authors discuss the educational context in which learning communities have…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Design, Instructional Effectiveness
Taylor, George R. – 1997
This social skills curriculum has been developed as a guide to assist in instructing students with disabilities in determining what behaviors are and are not acceptable in our society. Chapters include: (1) "The Disabled, Classified and Defined" (George R. Taylor and J. Richard Rembold); (2) "Social Learning Theories: An…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Bishop, Meg; Gibson, Graeme – 1999
This guide is intended for individuals and groups who are interested in developing resource material for highly participatory, small, democratic adult discussion groups that are based soundly on adult learning principles. Suggestions are provided for preparing learning circle material that will be balanced, authoritative, and help people in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Curriculum Design
Faraday, Sally; Harris, Richard – 1989
This resource pack of 11 units is designed to help trainers and postsecondary and continuing education staff meet the needs of special needs students in Great Britain. The pack aims to enhance the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and confidence of staff working with special needs students; indicate how staff and learners may assist the processes of…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Curriculum Design, Educational Improvement, Educational Resources
Technical and Further Education, Sydney (Australia). Foundation Studies Training Div. – 1994
This document describes a certificate given for English for Speakers of Other Languages in Australia. The course leading to the certificate has four levels, grouped into two stages. Each Stage represents one semester's full time study. The certificate has four core modules: oral skills covering listening and speaking, written skills covering…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Content, Course Objectives