"Next Generation Learning Models for English Language Learners" seeks to highlight the promising practices and trends in new designs to advance learning for English language learner (ELL) students. This paper is designed for practitioners, including educators and education leaders, who want to advance next generation learning models to…

Describes the development and testing of an environmental education curriculum model. The model, successfully used with secondary students (ages 14-16), is structured around a set of five key questions which are amplified to fit the topic and circumstances in which they are applied. (Author/JN)

Curriculum development should be a comprehensive process requiring a broad-based view of the educational system and its place within society, thus necessitating the use of a systematic curriculum development model. Such a model is provided here. Three references are provided. (DCS)

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)

A model for designing classroom simulations is proposed as a way to integrate values and social studies in the classroom. (Author/KM)

Suggests a common format for analyzing and evaluating learning systems which takes into account costs, skill requirements and sequence, instructional techniques and requirements, motivational factors, and evaluation. (RAO)

The model set forth in this article makes it possible to describe and judge an educational program (specifically, nursing) on the basis of data obtained through a specified inquiry process. It provides a systematic method for organizing various types of data and allows the examination of relationships among those data. (CT)

While this article deals with the construction of a curriculum in aesthetic education, the foundational/ functional plan outlined by the author transcends the topic of aesthetic education and provides numerous insights into the problems and prospects for curriculum building and educational change. (Editor/SJL)

A curriculum model for various schools and colleges to use in assessing the scope of their individual pharmacology programs is presented. The Council on Academic Affairs of the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry prepared this model because of modifications in state laws to allow the use of pharmaceutical agents in the practice of…

Describes a model for career communication curricula and explores clustering of job-related communication skills. (MH)

Outlines the structural elements useful for systematic construction of an industrial arts curriculum. Steps include (1) curriculum foundations (definition, rationale, goals); (2) curriculum content (scope, sequence, specifications); and (3) curriculum evaluation. (SK)

The planning, preparation, and delivery of learning experiences tend to be organized vertically, in accordance with schools' structure of curricular subjects and teaching departments, but pupils' experience of the curriculum is horizontal and serial. A rationale for utilizing a horizontal, across-the-curriculum model of support teaching is…

This booklet contains a functional system for the development of the vocational education curriculum. It is intended as a quick reference when a brief curriculum overview is needed by those interested in vocational education, such as congressional aides, the National Council of Vocational Education, the U.S. Department of Education, and the…

The document is intended to assist educators in Nepal in implementing curriculum reform or improvement by using population education as a means. Procedural designs that can be followed are described. First, the goals of population education must be defined. Second, a decision has to be made as to which body of knowledge or population concepts are…

A discussion of pharmaceutical curriculum design to meet the competency needs of professional pharmacists looks at the nature of competency, anticipates some of the demands of such a curriculum, describes some methods of organizing curriculum elements, and provides a brief bibliography. (MSE)