Curriculum

are less fit than children of a generation ago saying that the percentage of overweight children aged 5-11 has more than doubled in the last 30 years. (USDHHS, 2000) This is an alarming statistic for every one of all ages to consider. The PDHPE curriculum aims to get children physically active but more importantly it aims to provide children with the knowledge to develop both mental and social health awareness as well as providing the knowledge they need in order to make informed choices about…

This paper evaluates the curriculum initiative of Direct Interactive Instruction (DII) and its effectiveness in attaining higher scores on state level assessments in math and English. Clement Middle School took on this challenge in hindsight of the No Child Left Behind Initiative in which closing the gap in levels of student performance was seen as the ultimate tool in combating successful academic outcomes. “Educators are always called to consider something new, something that enables…

Australian Digital Technologies and the UK’s Computing Curricula “There are standards for students, standards for teachers, standards for curriculum content, standards for just about everything that moves” (Eisner, 2000, p. 344). However, from the research, I found that the educational philosophies, cultural norms and values are not explicitly stated in each curriculum. In contrast, they have been developed and supported primarily by various educational agents, such as leading schools,…

Throughout the source it directs a lot of valuable questions toward the topic of the effects technology would have on the curriculum of the arts. I love the first question stated which is: How can we demonstrate to new generations of artists that art has a profound cultural function in contemporary culture? It’s great because today, contemporary art is not what pre-contemporary/modern…

describes teachers from multiple grade levels working together to connect standards to upper and lower grade levels. Although vertical alignment is used to assist teachers in developing curriculum together within other grade levels, struggles between effective communications amongst teachers in order to create a curriculum that will assist students to achieve mastery of the standard. The following articles provide information on how to address the challenge of unprepared teachers. Research…

and secondary schools across the country. Literacy skills displayed by students have been inadequate to date. Our students are not learning the literary and writing skills to the level they need to. Through an improvement of teaching standards, curriculum objectives, and learning strategies, which will all be explored in this paper, there is an…

Education in the United States Why are students required to memorize the quadratic formula to graduate from high school, but not how to balance a checkbook? In the United States, students are held to a high standard of education. The United States is one of the most well educated countries in the world. Our country and our economy have grown and become exceptionally powerful, because of the focus on education. Knowledge is power, and the more knowledge we have the more power we have. To attain…

increase, kinship could no longer handle the cultural reproduction, resulting in the emergence of the education system. Tuner defines this institution as “The systematic organization of formal student-teacher instruction, revolving around an explicit curriculum and involving ritualized student passage, that has consequences among the members of a population for social reproduction, cultural storage, social placement, conflict management and social transformation”. Not only would education…

exposure indicates young people are being exposed to sex on the internet even if they are not actively seeking it out. So schools’ assumptions that sex is not something teens are thinking about (a necessary assumption to validate an abstinence-only curriculum) is unfounded.…

schedules and curriculum for their students, they determine what are appropriate student accommodations, and instructional adaptions, they are trained and use specialized teaching methods to work with their students, and so much more that the list of their roles and responsibilities is endless (Hardman et al.,…