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Emma Lonsdale; Rosey Lind; Tess Marslen; Kate Griffiths – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2024
A knowledge-rich curriculum is a common feature of educationally high-performing countries and an important step towards achieving Australia's education goals. It provides the foundation for excellence and equity in the education system by prioritising and explicitly outlining the essential knowledge and related skills students should be taught…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Learning Strategies
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Walkup-Amos, Taylor – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Music classrooms are diverse and joyful; however, it can be challenging for music teachers to meet the needs of all students. One approach to enhancing the music learning of students with disabilities is to use peer-assisted learning strategies. The purpose of this article is to describe the benefits of peer-assisted learning for students with and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Music Education, Peer Teaching, Learning Strategies
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Gvozdic, Katarina; Sander, Emmanuel – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
Informal strategies reflecting the representation of a situation described in an arithmetic word problem mediate students' solving processes. When the informal strategies are inefficient, teaching students to make way for more efficient ways to find the solution is an important educational issue in mathematics. The current paper presents a…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics), Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
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Whiley, Harriet; Houston, Donald; Smith, Anna; Ross, Kirstin – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2018
Environmental Health (EH) is an essential profession for protecting human health and yet as a discipline it is under-recognised, overlooked and misunderstood. Too few students undertake EH studies, culminating in a dearth of qualified Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) in Australia. A major deterrent to students enrolling in EH courses is a lack…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Public Health, Scientific Literacy, Learning Strategies
Gamino-Carranza, Arturo; Acosta-González, Mara Grassiel – Online Submission, 2016
"National Institute of Technology of Mexico" (in Spanish: "Tecnológico Nacional de México") as a decentralized body of the Mexico Ministry of Public Education, which has 266 affiliated institutes throughout the country and serves an enrollment of 556,270 students, seeks to offer top quality education geared towards the needs of…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Technical Education, Curriculum Development, Course Descriptions
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Houston, Tony – Hispania, 2015
A business Spanish curriculum that presents the full spectrum of general and specialized areas--including management, banking, finance, marketing and advertising--might seem ambitious for a single course. A course that aims to present the full picture would seem to impose an undue burden on memory and retention of the content. By emphasizing…
Descriptors: Spanish, Business Communication, Business Education, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Field, Rachael; Duffy, James; Huggins, Anna – Journal of Learning Design, 2015
Empirical evidence in Australia and overseas has established that in many university disciplines, students begin to experience elevated levels of psychological distress in their first year of study. There is now a considerable body of empirical data that establishes that this is a significant problem for law students. Psychological distress may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Law Students, Legal Education (Professions), Learning Strategies
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Czerkawski, Betul C. – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2014
Deeper learning promotes students' active engagement in learning environments, so they can continuously explore, reflect and produce information to build complex knowledge structures. Consequently, deeper learning has become a major focus of scholarly investigation and debate. Multiple studies have been conducted to describe the…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Online Courses, Curriculum Design, Learner Engagement
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Willermet, Cathy; Drake, Eron; Mueller, Anja; Juris, Stephen J.; Chhetri, Pratik; Upadhaya, Samik – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2014
In response to a request from a campus student organization, faculty from three fields came together to develop and teach an integrated interdisciplinary course on water issues and social activism. This course, "Water as Life, Death, and Power," brought together topics from the fields of anthropology, biology and chemistry to explore…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Water, Case Studies, Communities of Practice
Ascough, Richard S. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2011
The demand for quantitative assessment by external agencies and internal administrators can leave post-secondary instructors confused about the nature and purpose of learning outcomes and fearful that the demand is simply part of the increasing corporatization of the university system. This need not be the case. Writing learning outcomes has a…
Descriptors: Planning, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Institutional Evaluation
Murphy, Marilyn, Ed.; Redding, Sam, Ed.; Twyman, Janet S., Ed. – Center on Innovations in Learning, Temple University, 2016
The "Handbook on Innovations in Learning", published in 2014, responded to a call by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to "leverage the innovation and ingenuity this nation is known for to create programs and projects that every school can implement to succeed." In December 2015, passage of the "Every Student Succeeds…
Descriptors: Guides, Individualized Instruction, Minimum Competencies, Individual Characteristics
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Hutchison, Amy; Beschorner, Beth; Schmidt-Crawford, Denise – Reading Teacher, 2012
The goal of this investigation was to explore how a fourth grade teacher could integrate iPads into her literacy instruction to simultaneously teach print-based and digital literacy goals. The teacher used iPads for a three-week period during her literacy instruction and selected apps that provided unique approaches to helping the students meet…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Literacy, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education
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Mtebe, Joel S.; Dachi, Hilary; Raphael, Christina – Distance Education, 2011
Since 1985, Tanzania has been undergoing significant political and economic changes from a centralized to a more market-oriented and globally connected economy. The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) has responded to these changes by reviewing its legal status, vision, and functions, particularly those related to research, teaching, and public…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Curriculum Design, Efficiency, Foreign Countries
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Li, Qiong; Ni, Yu-jing – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
Focusing on the case of mathematics, this paper reviews debates on China's new Basic Education Curriculum Reform program, including the status of knowledge within the reformed curriculum, the arrangement of the curriculum system, and the push toward real-life applicability and hands-on participation. It discusses the related challenges that…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Mathematics Curriculum
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Griffin, Sharon – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2009
Using Central Conceptual Structure theory as an heuristic, learning sequences in the acquisition of number knowledge are described in three forms that bridge theory and practice: as a four-stage theoretical progression, as items on a developmental test created to test the theoretical progression, and as learning objectives in a curriculum designed…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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