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Clementi, Donna – Learning Languages, 2014
This article describes a graphic, designed by Clementi and Terrill, the authors of "Keys to Planning for Learning" (2013), visually representing the components that contribute to meaningful and purposeful practice in learning a world language, practice that leads to greater proficiency. The entire graphic is centered around the letter…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Visual Aids
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Trudeau, Dan; Kruse, Tina P. – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2014
This article examines two case studies that describe different ways of working with community partners to create civic engagement experiences in undergraduate education. Analysis of the case studies yields guidance about practical decisions involved in planning, designing, and executing pedagogy that uses engagement to generate what Fink calls…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Learning Experience, School Community Relationship
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Duff, Christine K.; Flattery, J. J., Jr. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
A teaching methodology and curriculum was designed to develop and increase positive self-awareness in students diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Joint attention (JA) strategies were first utilized to directly teach students about reflected mirror images, and then subsequently, to indirectly teach students about their reflected image.…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Concept, Developmental Stages, Autism
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Whitford, Betty Lou; Villaume, Susan Kidd – Peabody Journal of Education, 2014
In this article, we explore how teacher preparation programs have developed from the mid-1800s to present day, emphasizing changes in the clinical component. Drawing from the history of teacher education from the normal schools of the 19th century to present-day interest in clinically based preparation, we first review the migration of teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Educational History, Educational Change, Higher Education
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Oates, Tim – School Science Review, 2014
This article explores the rationale for the 2011-2013 review of the National Curriculum in England, a rationale informed by the work of an Expert Panel chaired by the author. The focus is on the fundamental principles that determine the nature and content of the curriculum. The approach adopted by the review is contrasted with that adopted when…
Descriptors: Science Education, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Leonard, Alison E.; Hellenbrand, Leah; McShane-Hellenbrand, Karen – Journal of Dance Education, 2014
This article presents the Mentorship, Integrated Curriculum, Collaboration, and Scholarship (MICCS) framework as an applicable model for transformative, creative, and curriculum-based K-12 dance education and arts integration. Developed and practiced by the authors--an artist/educator, a classroom teacher, and an arts education scholar and former…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Mentors
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Lee, Ki-Cheon; Cho, Soon-Mook – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Background: Within the last half century, the Korean national curriculum has undergone seven periods of reform, each at intervals of just 6-8 years. The most recent "seventh curriculum" was developed in 1997, and implemented in schools from 2001. Continual curriculum change has been driven by national and social needs, keeping in line…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, National Curriculum, Curriculum Design
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Cross, Beth; Hulme, Moira; McKinney, Stephen – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
This article critically examines pupil councils as a means of developing pupils' citizenship participation. It draws on findings across two research projects. The first study is a mixed method study commissioned by Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) that reviews the range of participatory activities in Scottish schools and their contribution to…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Curriculum
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Wolf, Bernard M.; Wright, Lorna – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2014
Economies continue to become more integrated through international trade and foreign investment, as well as by more, and more, complex global supply changes. With the expansion in the level and scope of international business (IB), it becomes all the more important that university graduates seeking careers in IB be able to "successfully hit…
Descriptors: International Trade, Management Development, Curriculum Design, Undergraduate Study
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Kronholz, June – Education Next, 2014
While U.S. schools struggled to reach even an average score on a key international exam for 15-year-olds in 2012, BASIS Tucson North, an economically modest, ethnically diverse charter school in Arizona, outperformed every country in the world, and left even Shanghai, China's academic gem in the dust. With the U.S. frantic about its place in the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Student Diversity, Scores, Achievement Rating
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Lingam, Govinda Ishwar; Burnett, Greg; Lilo, Jullian Fenny; Lingam, Narsamma – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
This article focuses on school curriculum documents. It specifically investigates teachers' perceptions of curriculum in the Solomon Islands context. Using a questionnaire as a means of gathering data, a sample of 35 teachers were asked to provide their perceptions about the curriculum documents for three subject areas, using criteria developed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, National Curriculum
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Rousseau, Nici – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2014
From a view of multiple types of knowledge for a blend in teacher education, the paper discusses the need for epistemological diversity in the types of knowledge for grade R teacher education. I claim in this article that for epistemological diversity, innovative mixes of knowledge are required and that they have to be explicated. The argument of…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Foreign Countries
Nakamura, Pooja; de Hoop, Thomas – American Institutes for Research, 2014
Most of the world is multilingual--multilingual at the national level (policies), at the community and family level (practices), and at the individual level (cognitive)--and each of these has implications for teaching and learning. Yet, at present, most reading decisions are not based on empirical research of how children learn to read in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Reading Skills, Reading Tests
Lee, Lung-Sheng; Ko, Hui-Min; Wang, Mei-Tyng; Pan, Ying-Ju – Online Submission, 2014
As the third-party planner and implementer of higher education institutional and program evaluations, the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT) completed program evaluations for all 145 undergraduate business and management (B&M) programs in 43 universities/colleges from 2006 to 2010. In the 145 programs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Program Evaluation, Undergraduate Study
WestEd, 2014
Consider that colorful photographs, eye-catching illustrations, and captivating images intended to make textbooks more appealing may actually distract students from the lesson at hand. Or that asking students to simply solve math problems might not be as effective as having them explain the steps of solutions that are already worked out--even some…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Mathematics Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Middle Schools
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