Revitalizing the disciplines : the best of ASCD's Curriculum update /
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Alexandria, Va. :
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,
©1998.
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Table des matières:
- Language arts. Feedback and coaching help students hone skills ; Assessing student writing ; Writing and technology ; Writing across the curriculum ; What is whole language? ; Finding the surest way to literacy ; What disadvantaged children need ; Invented spelling ; Changes sought in how literature is taught, what students read
- Mathematics. Bringing mathematics to life ; Math for the anxious ; The teachers' picks ; Standards "revolution' takes hold
- Social studies. Restoring earth to the K-12 curriculum ; What in the world is geography? ; New tools for geography education ; The past remains a battleground for schools ; Students as historians ; Setting standards for history ; While democracy flourishes abroad, U.S. schools try to reinvigorate teaching of citizenship ; Charting a course for a field adrift
- Science. Reformers promote hands-on, inquiry based learning ; A snapshot of the field ; Teachers' attitudes toward reform ; National standards seen as a catalyst for reform
- The arts. Visual arts programs pushed to reach new goals, new students ; Taking change into the classroom ; Mixed results ; Experts take new look at performance, general music ; General music courses offer diversity ; Push for greater clarity draws fire
- World languages. Learning to communicate in the real world ; Making a case for foreign language study ; Immersed in Japanese ; As enrollments climb, a new focus on 'proficiency'
- Health and physical education. Preparing students to be active forlife ; Using technology to transform physical education ; Moving physical education into the future ; Special needs, regular classrooms ; A crisis-driven field seeks coherence ; Sexuality education ; AIDS education ; drug and alcohol education.