Curriculum Issues

Career Pathways provides educators with a program to help students identify how their interests and abilities can become a career.

Nov 20, 2009 - Tammy Andrew

Why is there a significant achievement gap amongst minority children? One major issue causing certain children to be left behind: Hidden Curriculum.

Nov 17, 2009 - Monica Ellis

Using movies in the classroom can be an effective way for teachers to engage students in course material if teachers take some important precautions.

Nov 13, 2009 - Amy Martin

Schools across America employ reading teams to make choices for the best literature available to students, but do they always choose wisely?

Nov 10, 2009 - Cresta McGowan

Implementing service learning projects in higher education not only gives students valuable "real world" experiences but also helps organizations in the local community.

Nov 9, 2009 - Amy Martin

Thinking about research-based writing as a kind of science experiment can help students in science, technology, engineering, and math gain confidence as writers.

Nov 5, 2009 - Amy Martin

Experiential education is defined, simply, as learning by doing. Experiential learning activities can help students better learn and retain course concepts.

Nov 3, 2009 - Amy Martin

The research paper is a tradition in many college classes. Teachers should consider other ways of preparing students to do research that are more engaging and relevant.

Nov 2, 2009 - Amy Martin

Liberal arts courses are typically prerequisites for later studies, and though they may not directly apply to a future degree area, are vitally important for education.

Oct 19, 2009 - Joseph Wilner

Promoting social emotional learning at all levels enriches content and skills instruction, meets state mandates, and helps students become caring, compassionate adults.

Aug 13, 2009 - Barbara Abromitis

Research shows that college students who write a lot of papers increase their learning capacity and maximize their ability to be effective thinkers in a complex world.

Aug 12, 2009 - Roxanne Blanford

Teacher Kelly Gallagher takes No Child Left Behind to task, says schools are killing reading, and tells his readers what to do about it in his new book. Read the review.

Apr 14, 2009 - Margaret M. Williams

New studies on recess show that children actually receive great benefits from a little playtime every day.

Apr 4, 2009 - Rebecca Hersh

For the unprepared teacher, showing a movie in class or deciding to discuss "current events" may be a daily lifeline, but such activities undermine curricular goals.

Mar 28, 2009 - Michael Streich

The temptation to skim student papers may lead to higher incidents of cheating and plagiarism and may damage the academic reputation of the teacher.

Mar 17, 2009 - Michael Streich

The short term memory remembers everything - temporarily. The long term memory will keep recalling indefinitely. How does one get the information from one to the other?

Mar 14, 2009 - Rachel Wills

Every classroom has its own dynamics. In a heterogeneous grouped class, there are strategies on how to work with and form a strong mixed level learning environment.

Mar 13, 2009 - Maureen Zieber

Schools need to develop summer reading programs that are realistic and conform to subject areas goals and outcomes.

Feb 19, 2009 - Michael Streich

Educators have long instructed on a basis of separating subjects. A new concept, mashing, allows for synergy and creative thinking across multiple disciplines.

Feb 14, 2009 - Paul Bertolone

Undergraduate assignments increasingly involve group research projects. Here's how to maximise the effectiveness of a group project by choosing the right members.

Feb 11, 2009 - Alistair McCulloch

Charter schools in Minnesota with an ethnic focus have a positive impact on African & Hmong refugee children's learning, and support assimilation into American culture.

Jan 20, 2009 - Barbara Shema

Incorporating religion classes on the high school level may answer those critics advocating a values based curriculum while introducing students to global perspectives.

Jan 4, 2009 - Michael Streich

Both grade inflation that produces an abnormal number of superior scores as well as restructuring testing mechanisms to avoid failure percentages harms the process.

Dec 18, 2008 - Michael Streich

The great danger of high school end of course evaluations rests in subjective questions and comments that do more to intimidate teachers rather than producing good facts.

Dec 9, 2008 - Michael Streich

Teachers have to pull out every trick in their bag if they hope to teach their students how to read well. Children learn in different ways and need different approaches.

Dec 1, 2008 - DeLene Sholes