This paper addresses the dilemmas encountered by two secondary science education instructors designing a course for preservice elementary teachers. Taking into consideration past experiences of teaching education and science courses in general and with preservice elementary teachers in particular and recommendations from state and national…

A critical element of quality physical education programs is an image of quality, where quality is defined in terms of student achievement of the stated goals of the program, whatever they are. This concept is explained. (MT)

Offers a step-by-step guide to course design and development. Includes information on design basics, underlying objectives, course description, evaluation, standards, recordkeeping, and administration. (JOW)

Reviews the implicit educational assumptions which are made in curriculum design in geography, and explains those which relate to the aims and objectives of a course. For journal availability, see SO 506 593. (Author/AV)

This paper suggests seven general categories of questions that should be considered in making curriculum choices. (RY)

Beginning in August 2006, the author modified a school law course by moving from fifteen (15) weekly class meetings to eight (8) weekly class meetings and seven (7) online sessions. The blended or hybrid delivery system was adopted as part of a pilot project sponsored by the university's Institute for Teaching and Learning Excellence. The course…

Author describes ways to give students planned art experiences. (MB)

The history of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) courseware is described with specific reference to the PLATO system. Among the goals of courseware authors are finding better ways to develop the cognitive skills of students, to shift some of the burden of routine classroom instruction away from the teacher so that more class time can be spent in…

A student in the University of Hawaii's College of Education comments on the Human Development curriculum and the responsibility of educators to focus on their own values and attitudes and how they influence students. (RK)

On the premise that corporate counsel must be an able diagnostician before he can focus on highly specialized and interrelated issues of business law, the author suggests an approach to corporate law curriculum in which the basic course balances the quality and quantity of material designed to create the needed sensitivity. (JT)

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…

The successive applications of the model of instruction discussed here resulted in marked improvements in the course as determined from a variety of indices of student performance. (Author)

Discusses the objectives of Latin programs and describes an ideal Latin curriculum based on these objectives which would begin in grade four or five and continue through grade 12. Concludes with some basic needs and objectives of Latin teachers. (EKN)