Describes the development and trialing of a model called Steps and Strides for assessing the progress of pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), severe learning difficulties (SLD), moderate learning difficulties (MLD), and emotional and behavioral difficulties (EBD). Applies Steps and Strides to science and other curriculum…

The idea behind a story-centered curriculum is that a good curriculum should tell a story in which the student plays one or more roles. The roles should be ones that graduates might actually do in real life. (JOW)

Describes a conference entitled Teaching for the Public Good: The Future of the Humanities in Public Higher Education. Considers what effect the humanities can and should have on public higher education now. Outlines the objectives of the conference. Discusses what is meant by public education. Considers the responsibility of humanities educators…

Based on a needs analysis of 47 prisons, 6 pilot sites in the Michigan correctional system tested an innovative teaching method. The pilot resulted in adoption of a short-term, intensive, open-entry/open-exit program of vocational English as a second language. (JOW)

Describes technology education on a province-by-province basis. Groups various approaches to technology education into three categories and summarizes them. Provides illustrative examples and focuses on the objectives of the curriculum, the way the content of the program is structured, and recent developments. (Author/KHR)

Describes "differentiation plus": time and instructional differentiation to meet the needs of a diverse group of potentially at-risk students such as those who are developmentally or chronologically young or who are learning English as a second language. Differentiation plus includes differentiating what students learn, how students…

Describes key elements of service learning: response to the community, student-led decision-making, analytical reflection. Includes a case study of service learning in the Hudson, Massachusetts, Public School District, the main goal of which is to provide students with opportunities to learn the core values of empathy, ethics, and service. (PKP)

This article is an overview of the development, maintenance and teaching of an online counselor education class in counseling techniques. This article will focus on one professor's experience with traditional versus online teaching in general and the steps and potential obstacles involved in developing an online course. (Contains 13 references.)…

Focuses on the state of mathematics as exemplified in New Zealand schools rather than the level of mathematical understanding of students. Regards the picture of mathematics presented in curriculum documents as healthy with respect to mathematics, but criticizes implementation of the curriculum. Suggests teaching by presenting a wider picture of…

Explores the notion of the garden as metaphor for curriculum, inviting readers to become designers of their own "ecological learning laboratory." Key curricular elements (creativity, cultivation, growth, connectivity, experience, and imagination) represent learning conditions for literal and metaphorical gardens, and in this article's imagery, the…

Explores a way to teach statistics. Includes simple activities that can lead to the teaching and learning of a variety of statistical techniques which can offer students of all ages the opportunity to learn. (KHR)

Reviews the nature and history of post-secondary developmental education in America. (KHR)

Describes the features of and assessment instruments for a new conceptual physics course for non-science majors called 'Wonders of Technology', developed at the Virginia Commonwealth University. (Author/KHR)

Describes how South Carolina uses career clusters in its schools, what they need to make implementation successful, and the future of clusters. Looks specifically at the following clusters: transportation, distribution and logistics; arts, audiovisual technology, and communications; and health science. (JOW)

Describes difficulties Lawrence (Massachusetts) Public Schools teachers faced in accommodating the addition of two superintendent-mandated test-preparation programs to the curriculum after school district ranked last on Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) for the third year in a row. (PKP)