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Peer reviewedSpina, Stephanie Urso – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Presents a rationale for designing an authentic arts-based curriculum (AABC) that will facilitate the scholastic achievement of second-language learners. The article offers proposals for the implementation of such a curriculum, discusses the design of AABC positioned within a Vygotskian framework of learning, and synthesizes applicable findings…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Art Activities, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Design
Peer reviewedBrisk, Maria Estela; Wurzel, Jaime – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1979
The article offers a theoretical framework including a brief review of the literature on the importance of attitudes and second language learning, bilingualism and cognition, and bilingualism and language acquisition. Based on this theoretical framework, an integrated bilingual kindergarten curriculum model is presented. (NQ)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Design, Integrated Curriculum
Rigg, Pat, Ed.; Allen, Virginia G., Ed. – 1989
A collection of essays addresses aspects of the integration of limited-English-speaking students into the regular classroom. The articles include: "A Quality Program for Learners of English as a Second Language" (Jean Handscombe); "I Grow for a Living" (Carole Urzua); "The Classroom: A Good Environment for Language…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Design
Download full textGeorgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Office of Instructional Services. – 1992
This guide is intended to clarify for teachers and other instructional leaders the purpose and content of the foreign language curriculum of Georgia's public schools and to assist in more uniform preparation in foreign languages. The guide is organized according to the foreign language goals and objectives of the state's mandated core curriculum.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Course Content, Curriculum Design, Educational Benefits
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Office of Instructional Services. – 1992
This guide, designed to be accompanied by computer software, contains classroom activities and instructional techniques to be used in implementing the first-year core Spanish language curriculum for Georgia's public schools. Activities are correlated with goals and objectives specified in the state curriculum. Each provides information and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Course Content
De Avila, Edward; And Others – 1981
Described and summarized are the results of a program designed to improve the intellectual, academic, and linguistic functioning of children in a linguistically and culturally mixed setting. The program, Multicultural Improvement of Cognitive Abilities (MICA), was installed and supported by project staff in nine participating classrooms under two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Design
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Office of Instructional Services. – 1992
This guide describes classroom activities and instructional techniques, including the use of computer programs, to be used in implementing the first-year core French language curriculum for Georgia's public schools. Activities are correlated with goals and objectives specified in the state curriculum. Each provides information and directions for…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Course Content
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Office of Instructional Services. – 1992
This guide, designed to be accompanied by computer software, contains classroom activities and instructional techniques to be used in implementing the first-year core German language curriculum for Georgia's public schools. Activities are correlated with goals and objectives specified in the state curriculum. Each provides information and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Course Content
Direct linkBarnes, Rosemary; Josefowitz, Nina; Cole, Ester – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2006
Government commissions have demonstrated that residential schools' ability to educate aboriginal students was compromised by widespread problems including (a) inadequate curriculum, staffing, instruction time, and parental involvement; (b) racism; (c) prohibition against the use of aboriginal language; and (d) maltreatment. This article uses…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Canada Natives, Residential Schools, Parent Participation
