This document provides basic information to help school districts, health personnel serving schools, and community partners work together to design and provide safe, effective school health systems. The 12 chapters include: (1) "School Nursing and Today's Community"; (2) "School Nursing: Profession and Practice"; (3) "Health Literacy"; (4) "Communicable Disease Control and Immunization; (5) "Medication Administration"; (6) "Child...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Welfare, Communicable Diseases, Comprehensive School...
This annotated bibliography lists almost 1,200 journal articles published between 1985 and 1991 and drawn primarily from the ERIC and PsycLIT databases, focusing on issues which affect the educational integration of children and adults with special needs. Primary attention is given to articles discussing the methods and needs of students with mild to moderate handicapping conditions. Specific topics include assessment, attitudes, cross cultural issues, early education, adult education,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disabilities, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Mainstreaming,...
Divided into eight documents, an introduction and guides to the program for levels 1-7 (which corresponds to grades 4-10, respectively), this material makes up the civic education program for schools in the Northwest Territories (Canada). The introductory guide includes a statement of philosophy and goals, an overview of the program, considerations and goals for implementation, and the addresses of publishers and organizations that civics teachers may find useful. The focus of the activities...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Citizenship Education, Civics, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives, Elementary...
The chapters in this book were written by teachers to share strategies they have found effective in the mathematics classroom. Most describe a teaching idea or activity in sufficient detail for other teachers in elementary, middle, and secondary schools to be able to use it. The chapters concern: manipulative materials, developing a mathematics program, problem solving, fraction games, word problems (for kids by kids), teaching students to think in mathematics to make conjectures, using a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Manipulative...
This book is a manual that enables teachers to formulate an effective program of environmental education across multiple grade levels and cultural settings. A section provides tips for using the book, followed by nine chapters dealing with different aspects of developing and implementing an environmental education program. Chapter 1 presents a brief overview of what environmental education is all about. Chapter 2 focuses on developing an environmental education plan by addressing the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education,...
A resource guide is presented that is designed to broaden and deepen K-12 educators' understanding of four major racial, ethnic, and cultural groups. For each of the four groups, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans, a background essay on the history of that group in the United States is included as well as an annotated bibliography listing suggested resources. An appendix contains resources recommended for planning workshops about each of the four...
Topics: ERIC Archive, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Asian Americans, Blacks, Cultural...
This book presents teacher-created lesson plans, sequenced by grade level, that illustrate the connection between teaching specific disciplines--English language arts, foreign language, mathematics, science, and social studies--and NETS (National Educational Technology Standards) for Students performance indicators. Each lesson sequence addresses national standards for the discipline, suggests related resources, and provides a brief narrative by a teacher who has actually used the lesson in a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach,...
This volume is part of a series of 18 monographs on service learning and the academic disciplines. These essays focus on nursing, examining partnerships between education and service, nurse and person, and profession and community. Chapters describe both theoretical and experiential ways in which nursing has begun to incorporate service-learning as a methodology in many diverse settings and with many communities of interest. Following the Introduction by Jane S. Norbeck, Charlene Connolly, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Allied Health Occupations Education, Case Studies, Clinical Teaching (Health...
This monograph addresses topical issues in training, service delivery, and research for minorities in communication disorders. It presents extended versions of papers that were delivered at the conference, "Concerns for Minority Groups in Communication Disorders," held in Nashville, Tennessee on September 17-19, 1984. Papers include: "The First Thomas E. Poag Memorial Lecture" (S. Allen Counter); "Valid Predictors of Minority Student Success" (Harold Powell);...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Disorders, Cultural Differences, Delivery Systems, Educational...
This document consists of papers published in the electronic journal "Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation" during 2000-2001: (1) "Advantages of Hierarchical Linear Modeling" (Jason W. Osborne); (2) "Prediction in Multiple Regression" (Jason W. Osborne); (3) Scoring Rubrics: What, When, and How?" (Barbara M. Moskal); (4) "Organizational Issues Related to Portfolio Assessment Implementation in the Classroom" (Renee Forgette-Giroux and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education,...
This book examines the thesis that teacher burnout and student dropout stem from the same source, a process of alienation causing students and teachers to "give up on school." The first chapter outlines the size of the problem and some of the specific conditions that contribute to it. The second chapter examines the context of cultural expectations: macro-level changes that have led to alienation because they make obsolete the behaviors and beliefs that once constituted effective ways...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dropouts, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology, High Risk...
This compendium organizes information on the math and science projects sponsored by NCER and NCSER into two main sections: Mathematics and Science. Within each section, projects are sorted into chapters based on content area, grade level, and intended outcome. In determining the chapters, we considered the emerging college- and career-readiness standards. Many states have formed and adopted such standards to help create guidance for their K-12 school systems. Thus, we have separate chapters for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mathematics Education, Science Education, Educational Research, Preschool Education,...
The "Super Search Reprint" contains a background paper and 152 abstracts on the topic of curriculum-based assessment and curriculum-based measurement. A paper by Mark Shinn and others, titled "Curriculum-Based Assessment: A Comparison of Models" ("School Psychology Review," 1989, volume 18, number 3), presents four commonly used curriculum-based assessment models and compares them along a set of important dimensions, including: primary decision-making purpose,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary...
Noting that the evidence of families influence on their childrens school achievement is consistent, positive, and convincing, this report examines research on parent and community involvement and its impact on student achievement. Following an introduction, the first section of the report describes the methods used for selecting the studies; describes what the studies cover; provides a table showing the studies by topic area, by age and grade level, and by design type; and discusses limitations...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Family...
The challenge of educating the limited- or non-English-speaking (LES/NES) student is discussed in four papers: "Aspects of Bilingual Education for LES/NES Students" by Heidi Dulay and Marina Burt, "Definition and Measurement of Bilingual Students" by Edward A. De Avila and Sharon E. Duncan, "Bilingual Education for the English Dominant Language Minority Student" by Richard Barrutia, and "Bilingual Education and the English-Speaking Majority" by Thomas...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bilingual Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Planning, Educational...
Based on a series of successful summer writing institutes, this book presents practical ways for teachers to reinvigorate their classrooms and their own attitudes toward creative writing. In four complementary sections focusing on four groups of writers--creative writers in residence, K-12 students and teachers who participated in the summer institutes, and established writers such as Ron Carlson and Scott Russell Sanders--the book demonstrates the enormous variety and high quality of writing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Class Activities, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Summer Programs,...
A two-tier intervention study was designed to provide descriptive models of constructivist learning environments supported by appropriate technology, as they emerged in project classroom. Tier 1 was a collective case study of approximately 150 classrooms in 5 southwestern states whose teachers received training in applying technology. Tier 2 consisted of detailed case studies of six teachers and how they created constructivist learning environments. The project focused on classrooms with high...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Active Learning, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Computer Literacy, Computer...
This volume presents methods and first-year findings from the urban and suburban/rural studies of Special Strategies for Educating Disadvantaged Children, a 3-year project that is collecting case study data on 10 different strategies identified as holding promise for educating this group of children. Data collected by Special Strategies involve only those schools that had Chapter 1 programs or were eligible to participate in Chapter 1 and includes observations of classroom instruction and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classroom Observation Techniques, Compensatory Education, Data Collection,...
This report employs three analytical perspectives (ideological, implementational, and comparative institutional) in order to examine Federal anti-discrimination law enforcement in the New York City school system since the late 1960s. Part I of the study defines the fundamental American egalitarian ideology and its equality of opportunity and equality of results strands. The ambiguity in egalitarian policy standards, as formulated by the courts and by the Congress in Title VI and the Emergency...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Board of Education Role, Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Elementary...
Growing out of a 1992 conference that attracted teachers and educators from around the world, this book presents 13 essays which share the insights of 16 leading university scholars and teacher-researchers regarding the re-emergence of teacher education as a central focus in the field of English education. The book explores what teachers of the English language arts must know to be effective, how such knowledge can best be assessed, and the impact of cultural differences in the classroom, as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, English...
This anthology of articles, selected from writings in the "Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance" and the "Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport" (previously "Research Quarterly") over a 10-year period, offers insights into the growth in dance education and the changes during those years in pedagogical, creative, and philosophical issues. The collection of 37 articles is divided into 8 sections: (1) "Pathmakers: A Historical...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aesthetic Values, Athletics, Childhood Needs, Dance, Dance Education, Dance Therapy,...
This monograph advocates developing the leadership skills of gifted children and youth. Discussion centers on what leadership is, what it is not, and why it is critical for this population. The monograph addresses the following leadership development issues: why leadership education should be taught; identification of leaders; leadership development for culturally different populations; rationales and goals of leadership programs; conceptual models; instructional models; organizational options;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Awareness, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted,...
This guide presents strategies for the prevention of emotional/behavioral disabilities, beginning before birth and continuing into young adulthood. It focuses on strategies that promote competent social behavior, identification of risk factors in development of antisocial behavior, and interventions to prevent the development of antisocial behavior. Prevention programs that have been proven effective are described along with the family, school, and community strategies they use. Individual...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior Disorders, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Elementary...
An assessment model is presented that breaks reading down into six discrete skill areas that are both teachable and assessable. The six traits of an effective reader are: (1) decoding conventions; (2) establishing comprehension; (3) realizing content; (4) developing interpretation; (5) integrating for synthesis; and (6) critiquing for evaluation. Chapter 1 explains and develops these traits. Chapters 2 through 5 are devoted to specific grade levels, outlining reading development and effective...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Reading...
This volume contains papers presented at a symposium on public policy and educating handicapped persons. Included are: (1) "Public Policy and the Special Education Task for the 1980s: Report of the Wingspread Conference" (M. C. Reynolds et al.); (2) "The Emerging System for Educating Handicapped Children" (L. E. Lynn, Jr.); (3) "Effectiveness of Special Education" (G. V. Glass); (4) "Public Education: A System to Meet Its Needs" (R. B. Howsam); (5)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation,...
Subjects addressed by the 35 papers in this proceedings include: computer-based cooperative, collaborative and individual learning; comparison of students' and teachers' computer affect and behavior effects on performance; effects of headings and computer experience in CBI; use of CSCA to support argumentation skills in legal education; drama's role in multimedia instructional software; metaphorical interfaces' return-on-investment; students learning different cultures through sharing artwork...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Interfaces, Computer Mediated Communication,...
This document contains the following papers on international issues in technology and teacher education: "Developing and Researching the International Dimension in Teacher Education and Technology: A SITE Invited Panel" (Niki Davis, Therese Laferriere, Bridget Somekh, Wim Veen, and Jerry Willis); "Integrating ICT into the Curriculum: A Case Study of the Irish 'North South' Project" (Roger Austin and Jane Smyth); "A Modular Approach to Education" (Bruce Elson and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Technology,...
Learning can only take place in an environment that reflects the teacher's care for all the students; that care includes the establishment and maintenance of good discipline. This book approaches the general topic of discipline from a historical perspective and from a contemporary point of view. It discusses punishment, order, and justice, and it shows teachers ways to approach the more serious problems attached to maintaining good discipline in the classroom, as well as ways of helping...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories, Classroom Techniques,...
This 2001 annual publication contains 31 articles on topics germane to the history of education. Each year, this journal publishes papers presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest History of Education Society. After the "Introduction" (R. J. Taggart) articles in this year's issue are: "Origins of the American Federation of Teachers: Issues and Trends between the Two Great World Wars" (D. T. Martin); "Class, Race, and Curriculum in Small Pennsylvania Mill Towns of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary...
One of a series of semiannual reports, this publication contains 18 articles which report the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical applications. Articles and their authors are as follows: "Phonology and Beginning Reading Revisited (Isabelle Y. Liberman); "The Role of Working Memory in Reading Disability" (Susan Brady); "Working Memory and Comprehension of Spoken Sentences: Investigations of Children with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beginning Reading, Communication Research, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary...
Articles in this volume, written in Spanish, focus on the following: reading and writing assessment: Some characteristics of new assessment practices; how to support active participation in the reading of expository texts; argumentative writing as a problem in the written composition of students in teacher training; reading in a workshop environment; institutionalizing a reading day; family anecdotes and story-telling possibilities; early childhood and youth literature; an analysis of the names...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature, Reading Habits, Reading Instruction,...
This handbook was developed to aid teachers, teacher aides, paraprofessionals, and teacher trainers. The overview of the readings is both content oriented and structure oriented. Cognitive and affective styles of learning are identified and related to bilingual education; the new research in this area is found to raise significant questions on teaching and learning. The strategies spelled out are not oriented to a specific subject area, but are intended as a guide for technical assistance in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiovisual Aids, Bilingual Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation,...
This document begins with a paper titled "Accommodating for Greater Student Variance in Local Schools" by Jacqueline Thousand and Richard Villa, which identifies the fundamental characteristics of successful heterogeneous public schools and describes specific examples of educational and organizational practices that enable schools to accommodate greater student variance. A bibliography of references from the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is then presented,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cooperative Learning, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Heterogeneous...
Nine issues of the newsletter of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) include articles, news items, meeting announcements, news items of individual divisions, and professional advancement opportunities. Some major articles are: (1) "Home Schooling--A Viable Alternative for Students with Special Needs" (2) "High Stakes Testing a Mixed Blessing for Special Students" (Martha Frase-Blunt); (3) "Promise and Peril: A Look at Charter Schools" (Carolyn Cosmos); (4)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Anger, Charter Schools, Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary...
These 14 research reports are grouped into three broad categories based on the Piagetian level concerned. The articles concerning preoperational concepts focus on problems such as: (1) finding an appropriate mathematical description of some of the primitive mathematical concepts; (2) the role of "activities" in early concept acquisition; (3) the similarities and differences between perceptual and conceptual processes; (4) the relation between memory improvement and improved...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Elementary...
These three journals include articles on issues related to language learning. The fall 1998 journal presents: "Attention! Are You Seeking a Position with Excellent Long-Term Benefits? Be an Advocate!" (Mary Lynn Redmond); "National Town Meeting Energizes Support for Early Language Learning" (Marcia Harmon Rosenbusch); "Bring Back Childhood Bilingualism: The Case of Louisiana" (Stephen J. Caldas); "Total Physical Response Storytelling: A Communicative Approach...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bilingualism, Computer Assisted Instruction, Electronic Mail, Elementary Secondary...
Papers in this collection focus on diverse issues in literacy ranging from motivation to wordless books to professional development schools. Papers in the collection, and their authors, are as follows: "The New Literacy and Reading Workshop: How Comfortable Is Too Comfortable?" (Jeanne Henry); "Fostering Reading Motivation: Insights from Theory and Research" (Linda B. Gambrell and Rose Marie Codling); "Standards for the English Language Arts: Stylish but Stillborn"...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Basic Skills, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher...
The primary purpose of the "2007 Mississippi Mathematics Framework" is to provide a basis for curriculum development for K-12 teachers. The framework provides an outline of what students should learn through competencies and objectives/benchmarks. Suggested teaching strategies and assessments for those strategies are correlated to the competencies. The "2007 Mississippi Mathematics Framework" replaces the "2000 Mississippi Mathematics Framework." The content of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Curriculum Development,...
This resource book was developed to provide information that state and local leaders can use to stimulate discussion of the problem of students at risk and support the planning of initiatives that address the problem. An overview defines students at risk, summarizes the content of the book, and lists recent reports and publications on the problem of students at risk. Section I presents eight sets of data, summarizing national and state data on the changing nature of students attending the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Delinquency, Drinking, Dropouts, Drug Abuse, Elementary Secondary Education, High...
This manual was designed to assist individuals and groups throughout Texas who are assisting teachers. The manual is composed of 8 sections which include: mentoring models, induction models, other models, adult development, mentoring, induction, instructional planning, and reference material. Also included are the mentoring and induction models developed and guided by best practice from across the state. The models for mentoring include a job description for mentoring, suggestions for training...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Development, Agency Cooperation, Beginning Teacher Induction, Elementary School...
Student absenteeism is a major concern for elementary and secondary school educators. This paper annotates 59 articles and reports dealing with the causes of, effects of, and solutions to student absenteeism. A brief glossary first defines l4 terms used in the literature. The author then surveys l4 publications on the causes of absenteeism, distinguishing student-level causes, such as personal characteristics or backgrounds, from school- and societal-level causes like school organization,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Attendance, Elementary Secondary...
This edited volume contains 16 social science-related educational research articles based on papers presented at the 1979 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The articles and associated commentary are organized according to six symposia held at the meeting--anthropology, evaluation, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. The objective of each symposium was to identify the values imposed by the social science discipline and to determine how...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Anthropology, Educational Assessment, Educational Practices, Educational Research,...
The Data Book contains descriptive analyses of new social studies materials for kindergarten through Grade 12, teacher resource materials, ERIC abstracts of curriculum guides, and a listing of all social studies materials published in 1979. It is intended to help teachers, administrators, curriculum coordinators, and college methods professors in selecting appropriate materials on the basis of grade level, discipline, underlying philosophy, goals, strategy, structure, content, innovativeness,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Catalogs, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education, Games, Higher Education,...
This document consists of one volume (3 issues) of a serial devoted to law-related education (LRE) that offers background information on a wide range of legal issues with teaching strategies for LRE. The themes for the issues include: (1) character education; (2) conflict resolution; and (3) the 1996 election. Each issue proposes teaching methods that involve class discussions and collaborative learning, such as mock trials, simulated public and Congressional hearings, and other role playing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Civil Law, Civil Liberties, Conflict...
Articles focus on the following: teaching of literature as a means to teaching reading comprehension; reading and discussing favorite stories; interactive literature in childhood literacy; new perspectives in teaching literature; construction of graphic aids in promoting and developing writing skills; recommended books for children and adolescents; early child literature and the history of early childhood; interpretation of stories in first grade; argumentative texts and their presentation in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 1, Literacy, Literature, Metacognition, Reading...
This introductory packet provides an introduction to recent efforts to synthesize fundamental social and interpersonal areas of competence and problem functioning, while framing the discussion within the classification scheme developed by the American Pediatric Association. The range of interventions discussed is consistent with that framework, emphasizing the importance of accommodations as well as strategies to change the individual. The packet is divided into six sections. Section 1...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior Modification, Counseling Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education,...
The New England Multifunctional Resource Center (MRC) for Language and Culture in Education is funded by OBEMLA, Brown University School of Education, and the Education Alliance for Equity in the Nation's Schools. The MRC's service area encompasses Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. The MRC collects and disseminates information on bilingual education program administration. This report contains information in four sections: (1) administrator training...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary...
This volume contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Education (TIME 2000). It includes papers, posters, and short oral reports. Research papers include: (1) "Implications of the Shift from Isolated Expensive Technology to Connected, Inexpensive, Ubiquitous and Diverse Technologies" (Jim Kaput); (2) "Developing Simulation Activities to Improve Students' Statistical Reasoning" (Beth Chance, Joan Garfield, and Robert delMas); (3)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Algebra, Calculators, Cognitive Processes, Computer Uses in Education, Cultural...
Articles in this volume include the following titles (translated from the Spanish): "Who Is in Charge of Teaching Reading and Writing at the University? Tutorials, Exam Preparation, and Class Synthesis in the Humanities" (Paula Carlino); "False Conceptions of the Linguistic Abilities, Values, and the Culture of Girls and Boys from Poor Families" (Mabel Condemarin); "Teaching Reading and Writing as an Act of Awareness Building" (Margarita Drago); "The Computer...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Cross Sectional Studies, Elementary Secondary Education,...
This book is designed to help policymakers, educators, and researchers develop a deeper understanding of the issues of school restructuring and to give greater conceptual clarity to the terms of the current debate. The chapters of the book contain forum papers that are organized into two main parts. Following chapter 1, "Introduction: On Changing the Structure of Public Schools" (Richard F. Elmore), part 1 presents five essays on school restructuring from several perspectives,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrative Policy, Administrator Role, Educational Change, Educational Policy,...
