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Radu Bogdan Toma; Iraya Yánez-Pérez; Jesús Ángel Meneses-Villagrá – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2024
As science education shifts toward integrated STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) approaches, guidelines for designing teaching and learning episodes that integrate curricular content and procedures from multiple disciplines become increasingly in demand. The existing plethora of conceptualizations of STEM makes difficult such…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Integrated Curriculum, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum
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Jeanne M. Powers; Mary Brown; Lisa G. Wyatt – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe SPARK, an innovative elementary school that highlights the possibilities for elementary education as COVID-19 continues to unfold. Design/methodology/approach: The authors' analysis is based on a research synthesis of the main features of the SPARK model, as it was operating when schools in Arizona…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
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Westgate, David; Hughes, Maureen – Education 3-13, 2015
This paper reports on the initial stage of an exploratory project based in six primary schools in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)--and on plans for its extension. The potential value of the project as a curricular initiative is set out, from both practical and research perspectives. Its framing as a vehicle for the continuous professional development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools
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Picower, Bree – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2012
This article provides a framework of six elements of social justice curriculum design for elementary classrooms. The elements move from students learning self-love and knowledge about who they are and where they come from to learning respect for people different from themselves. Students explore social injustice, learn about social movements,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Curriculum Design, Models, Elementary Education
Pedersen, Katie S.; Kitano, Margie K. – Gifted Child Today, 2006
Although students of color continue to be underrepresented in gifted programs, teachers in diverse communities are serving increasing numbers of gifted students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds. Recently, teachers of the gifted express interest in understanding how to better meet the needs of CLD students through a…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Multicultural Education, Literature, Models
Peterson, Richard E. – Man/Society/Technology, 1980
Presents one approach to developing a technology-based curriculum for the elementary school. Three models are examined which help establish a curriculum structure: (1) curriculum content structure; (2) five dimensions of the study of technology; and (3) curriculum webbing/sunburst technique. (CT)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Models
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Cordeiro, Patricia – Language Arts, 1990
Describes problem-based thematic instruction in an effort to give both students and teachers meaningful experiences. (MG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Design, Elementary Education
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Wills, Clint – Childhood Education, 1995
Compares and contrasts four curricular models: prescriptive, thematic, KWHL, and inquiry. Diagrams characteristic features of each and discusses progressive patterns revealed and basic divisions between models of linear sequential learning versus circular recursive learning. Focuses on the latter models, especially inquiry, and on its practical…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Education
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Pesola, Carol Ann – Foreign Language Annals, 1991
Explores ways in which elementary school foreign language programs can fully integrate cultural insights, skills, and understanding through an examination of instructional models and developmental factors in the teaching of culture, goal setting for teaching culture, and culture and curriculum in the foreign language classroom and in other areas.…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Curriculum Design, Elementary Education
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Calfee, Robert C.; Wadleigh, Clay – Educational Leadership, 1992
Project Read, which began 10 years ago as a collaborative reading strategy, has evolved into the Inquiring School model. This model arose from the realization that critical literacy strategies and structures work equally well in kindergarten, sixth grade, peer coaching, or at faculty meetings. Key elements are improved classroom practice,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design, Elementary Education
Neihart, Marjorie; McGuire, Erma – 1972
This model for curriculum development is dependent upon teacher involvement to be successful and is characterized by its placement of the learner and his needs at the center. The model described in this document, if it is to serve the educational needs and interests of the learner, must be carefully developed so that it is in harmony with the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
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Nordstrom, Virginia; Clayton, Victoria – RSR Reference Services Review, 1988
Explains the concept of book webbing, and provides an annotated bibliography of 20 publications which discuss or show how to incorporate children's literature in both the language arts and content areas of the elementary school curriculum using the webbing diagram and process. (13 references) (MES)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading, Curriculum Design
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Shane, Harold G. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 1973
Discusses the causes for educational problems, backgrounds for educational development, and a model for educational progress. (RK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Objectives
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Ohana, Chris; Ryan, Kent – Science and Children, 2003
Describes a project for building a neighborhood model by a group of primary students. Integrates science, mathematics, and social studies. (KHR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Elementary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Activities
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Short, Kathy G. – English in Education, 1999
Proposes a curricular framework that provides an alternative view of "balance" in guided reading and literature discussion groups. Suggests several possible scenarios for the future of literature in classroom instruction. Presents a curricular model for a literature-rich classroom. (NH)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Curriculum Design, Elementary Education, English Curriculum
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