A Colorado district's high school social studies teachers have collaborated to design curriculum guides that are useful to teachers, challenging for students, and aimed at integrating content outcomes with the district's five learner outcomes. The shift toward outcome-based education has produced guides emphasizing student performance, not content…

Describes a method for writing curriculum for journalism classes and publications courses, using the Outcome-Based Education model combined with a sequential developmental approach such as Bloom's Taxonomy. Includes learning objective examples and a list of journalism learner outcomes. (SR)

In the Air Force's Advanced Communications-Computer Systems Officers Training (ACOT) Course, participants must complete the ACOT Learning Contract to learn more about a specific problem or topic. The group must reach consensus on a topic and grade for the contract, fostering intense teamwork. (JOW)

Looks at school-to-employment transition and suggests that the process can be shortened and made simpler without major curriculum changes. (JOW)

Notes that, since 1944, United Kingdom schools have been mandated to develop the spiritual aspect of children's lives. Synthesizes ideas of the spiritual in a way helpful for teachers, finding that descriptions of spirituality fall into three categories: (1) spirituality as a fundamental aspect of human nature; (2) spirituality as "something…

Identifies a number of possible epistemological perspectives that can be taken on the changing nature of curricular knowledge in science and considers some of the normative characteristics of each. The varieties of knowledge and value perspectives associated with each inform teachers and students how they are expected to think about the subject.…

Examines ways of learning (association, correspondence, coherence, recognition) and lists three aspects of each (criterion, source of theory, nature of knower and known). Identifies each way's approach to curricular elements (education, curriculum, learner, teacher, society, and evaluation criterion). (SK)

An 11-member DACUM team identified necessary instructional elements and student outcomes for process-based secondary technology education. A panel of 43 exemplary teachers then validated goals and objectives, resulting in a curriculum framework. (SK)

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Tech Prep/Applied Academics movement share many common goals: (1) students as mathematical problem solvers; (2) student confidence in communicating mathematically in various settings; and (3) multiple assessments of student performance. (JOW)

Six curriculum orientations predominate in African-American educational experience: functionalism, accommodation, liberalism, Black Nationalism, Afrocentrism, and social reconstruction. Tied to the history of slavery and oppression, these orientations will continue to develop separate from the mainstream. (SK)

Analyzes developments regarding nutrition content in nursing curricula before 1960, from 1960 to early 1980s, and currently. Describes nursing education, public policy decisions, and the evolution of the professions of nursing and dietetics. Specifies guidelines for essential content for undergraduate nursing curricula. (Author/JOW)

Suggests that Margaret Mead's distinctions among three kinds of culture--here referred to as "traditional,""transitional," and "learning"--are useful in understanding the current controversy over how much the Western tradition should be emphasized in the curriculum. (EVL)

Four approaches to teaching advanced entrepreneurship in current use are as follows: (1) advanced options such as franchises and buyouts and international entrepreneurship; (2) preentrepreneurship courses; (3) starting a business; and (4) structured experience. (JOW)

The chair of the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence explains the center's STAR (Straight Talk about Risks) program, a pre-K-12 curriculum designed to teach children how to reduce their chances of being victimized by gun violence. Students rehearse behaviors that may one day be life saving, such as resisting peer pressure and recognizing and…

Argues that, despite decades of increasing scientific evidence on the public awareness of the state of the environment, the secondary education curricula has failed to respond. Discusses a back-to-basics model of secondary education. (CCM)