This guide is planned and organized to enable learners to connect interrelated concepts, content, and processes. It seeks to establish relationships among past, present, and future experiences and learning and was designed to help educators communicate with other educators in Wisconsin who have developed integrated and applied curricula. For the…

This paper outlines design problems and other instructional delivery issues that need to be addressed by potential on-line program designers, and it suggests some possible solutions to these problems. The first issue was transforming a traditional, three-credit course in a developing student-centered curriculum into a course delivered through…

This monograph describes a Malaysian innovation, the Invention Curriculum, or "Reka Cipta." This technology-based subject, which is multidisciplinary in approach, was introduced as an elective subject in 14 upper secondary schools in Malaysia in 1995 and has now been implemented in over 200 schools across the country. The objective of…

This document offers practical guidelines and suggestions to assist those responsible for reviewing, evaluating, developing, and implementing general education curricula. Emphasis is placed on collaborative practices, ongoing open communication, thorough planning, and reliable information, with the aim of facilitating the process of renewing a…

This chapter will focus on the design and implementation of content-based classroom ESL/EFL projects built around "global issue" topics linked to themes such as peace, human rights and the environment. It will explain how second language project work designed from a global education perspective aims both at the development of language…

An elective program for grades 10-12 replaced a rigid, sequential social studies curriculum to become a diverse and stimulating program for developing good citizens. (Author/KM)

A general overview of the appropriate role of behavioral objectives in curriculum decisions. (HB)

Author contends that an unsubtle use of behavioral objectives tends to impede the process of considering a child's natural cognitive development by focusing attention on someone else's task analysis and not on the development of the child's ideas. (Author)

Discussed an instructional method that required intensive student involvement in their own mutual instruction and evaluation. (Author/RK)

Discusses the development of new curriculum materials for use in the preparation of chemical technicians in two-year community colleges and technical institutes. Indicates that the texts developed are equally suitable for the chemical part of environmental programs and medical and engineering technician curricula. (CC)

Considers the particular problems that Latin America culture faces in its attempts to indoctrinate its youth with political values. (RK)

Discusses the power of early childhood education to overcome longstanding social, psychological, and economic problems. (Author/RK)

In Cobb County, Georgia, children start in first grade to think about jobs and what they want to do with their hands and minds and lives. (Editor)

Article explores some of the issues involved in a consideration of educational objectives. (Editor)

The importance of individual differences among preschool teachers in implementing curriculum models is discussed. Interaction between the role expectations associated with a model and individual teacher styles accounts for the variation found within any one model. No matter what model is implemented, teacher variables largely determine degree of…