Dilemmas of Curriculum in the Classroom: Ms. Martin's Struggle To Teach for Understanding.

Powell, Barbara Schieffelin

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ERIC Number: EJ590561

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Publication Date: 1999

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Dilemmas of Curriculum in the Classroom: Ms. Martin's Struggle To Teach for Understanding.

Powell, Barbara Schieffelin

Peabody Journal of Education, v74 n1 p111-45 1999

Provides snapshots of the classroom activities of one middle school teacher over two years as she was introduced to ATLAS (Authentic Teaching, Learning, and Assessment of all Students) program concepts like personalization, student exhibitions, and teaching for understanding, describing six dilemmas she faced as she used a teaching-for-understanding framework to help design the kinds of learning activities encouraged by ATLAS partners. (SM)

Descriptors: Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Faculty Development, Junior High Schools, Middle School Teachers, Middle Schools, Social Structure, Teacher Improvement, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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