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Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2012
Sparked by the Common Core State Standards, teachers and literacy experts are arguing about the role of a time-honored pillar of English/language arts instruction: classroom activities designed to help students understand what they are about to read. The attacks on--and defenses of--"prereading" are unfolding largely in cyberspace, through online…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Electronic Publishing, Learning Activities, State Standards
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Colangelo, Nicholas; Kelly, Kevin R. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1983
Importance rankings, and liking and participation scores for junior high school activities, obtained from 31 gifted program students (GP), 204 general students (GS), 12 teachers, and 52 parents, yielded such results as that the GP program was ranked significantly important by GP. (MC)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Class Activities, Extracurricular Activities, Gifted
Kelly, Leonard – 1985
Intended to complement two other summaries about writing across the curriculum at Gallaudet College for deaf students, this report describes the first academic year of the college's writing across the curriculum program (WAC), detailing various instructors' projects and their personal opinions about the program, as well as how the students felt…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking
WIENTGE, KING M., ED.; AND OTHERS – 1967
PAPERS WERE PRESENTED AT A CONFERENCE ON CLASSROOM LEARNING ON SUCH TOPICS AS PROGRAM DESIGN, TESTING, AND OTHER EVALUATION TECHNIQUES, COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION, PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION, SIMULATION, PACING, AND RETENTION. SEVERAL TREATED MILITARY TRAINING, ADULT LEARNING, AND ADULT-CENTERED CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES. IN ONE PAPER, THE SYSTEMS…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Aerospace Technology, Class Activities, Classroom Environment