In 2003, the International Conflict Resolution Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia, produced a primary school teaching manual for UNESCO Vietnam. The finished manual included lesson plans and materials for a five year, 50 lesson peace education course. The manual is one of the first examples of a systematic core national curriculum in…

The authors present three lesson ideas that integrate women's history into the curriculum and that support the development of important social studies skills. The first lesson, for teachers to use at the beginning of the school year, encourages students to think critically about the nature of history and the importance of understanding the point…

Blogs are popular, innovative, online platforms for learning. Blogging allows for synthesis of content and helps sustain student engagement in the health education classroom setting. Objectives: Students will define a blog, execute a blog to apply learned health content, and post and respond to other students' health-related blogs. Target…

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center, Dryden Flight Research Center, and their partners at other NASA centers and in private industry are currently developing X-33, a prototype to test technologies for the next generation of space transportation. This single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch…

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested in the development and dissemination of instructional tools to support teachers' incorporation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) into their classroom instruction. Math experts have developed formative assessment lessons (FALs) that teachers can incorporate throughout the year's curriculum.…

Staff development is very significant for the achievement of overall goals of higher education in Pakistan. The success of innovations depends largely upon the skills of instructors; but in Pakistan, the people with a simple masters degree (without any pedagogical training) are inducted as teaching staff at the university level, so it is time to…

This three-part weather-themed lesson for young learners connects weather, clothing, and feelings vocabulary. The target structures covered are: asking about the weather; comparing weather; using the modal auxiliary, should; and the question word, when. The lessons utilize all four skills and include such activities as going outside, singing,…

Most educators want to provide appropriate instruction for the diverse learning needs of their students, however moving from theory to practice can stymie both novice and experienced teachers. The author shows middle- and secondary-level teachers how to plan a differentiated lesson from start to finish, detailing the steps to take before, during,…

This document contains lesson plans about recycling for teachers in grades K-12. Titles include: (1) "Waste--Where Does It Come From? Where Does It Go?" (2) "Litter Detectives," (3) "Classroom Paper Recycling," (4) "Recycling Survey," (5) "Disposal and Recycling Costs," (6) "Composting…

After introducing Madeline Hunter's lesson planning and teacher supervision model, this paper examines the scientific claims made for the model and provides a philosophical critique based on John Dewey's observations about teaching and learning. Although Hunter claims her model is research-based, the paper finds little evidence to support this…

This textbook is a elementary grade reader that contains 43 lessons. A list of words to be taught are presented at the beginning of each lesson.

This textbook is a elementary grade reader that contains 44 lessons. A list of words to be taught are presented at the beginning of each lesson. [For "Longmans' 'Ship' Literary Readers. Book I," see ED623280.]

This textbook is a elementary grade reader that contains 60 lessons. A list of words to be taught are presented at the beginning of each lesson. [For "Longmans' 'Ship' Literary Readers. Book II," see ED623281.]

THIS GUIDE PRESENTS SPECIFIC THERAPY IDEAS FOR SPEECH CLINICIANS TO USE WITH STUTTERERS. THE INTRODUCTION DISCUSSES PREVENTION OF STUTTERING, ORGANIZATION AND PLANNING OF THERAPY, SPEECH RULES, SPEECH EVALUATION, AND TERMINATION OF THERAPY. TWENTY-THREE THERAPY PLANS ARE DESCRIBED FOR EACH OF THREE LEVELS. LEVEL 1 IS FOR CHILDREN FROM KINDERGARTEN…

The lesson plans of 30 elementary and secondary level student teachers and audiotapes of lessons delivered from these plans are compared to determine the congruence between prelesson planning and actual delivery. An analysis of the audiotapes in comparison to written plans is given with reference to: (1) planning for each of three phases…