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Incorporating Art Into Education : The Importance Of Teaching Creatively In A Standards Based Classroom, Monica Petersen

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Art education is an important aspect of overall learning and schools are failing to provide adequate art education programs for students. Eighty-nine percent of Americans believe that art education is important enough to be taught in schools, and still, art education is being allowed to slip out the backdoor without anyone asking why (National Arts Education, 2007). If teachers could incorporate art into the current curriculum, students would benefit and art could be used as a valuable teaching tool. An art resource packet was created for teachers in response to the interviews conducted. The resource packet contains information on how …

Contemporary Art, Science, Ecology, And A Critical Pedagogy Of Place, Mark Graham

Faculty Publications

In contemporary life and education, the local is marginalized in favor of large-scale economies of consumption that are indifferent to ecological concerns. The consequences of neglecting local human and natural communities include a degraded habitat, loss of wilderness, alienation, rootlessness, and lack of connection to communities. Place-based education responds to this indifference to local ecological concerns by grounding student learning in the experiences of their own lives, communities, and regions. Critical place-based pedagogy broadens the scope of place-based learning by incorporating critical theory into the curriculum of the local. This article describes a critical pedagogy of place as a prelude …

Instructional Choices Of Mississippi Foreign Language Teachers, Elizabeth Anne Harrison

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to survey Mississippi foreign language teachers in regards to demographic information pertaining to their educational and professional experiences and how often they employ certain activities taken from the Mississippi Foreign Language Curriculum Framework (2000). The data were then examined to see if a relationship existed between specific teacher demographic data and how they implemented the state-mandated curriculum. A researcher-designed survey instrument was developed. In order to establish the validity and reliability of the instrument two samples were taken: Mississippi foreign language teachers and teachers subscribing to the on-line listserv FLTEACH. A total sample of …

Continuing Education, Regional Programs And Summer Session Mcr Form 4 10/24/2006, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Minutes 10/10/2006, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Geography Form A: Discipline Summary 09/27/2006, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Latin American Area Studies Form B: Objectives And Requirements 09/27/2006, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Geography Form B: Objectives And Requirements 09/27/2006, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Geography Multiple Course Revisions Form 09/20/2006, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Geology Form A: Discipline Summary 09/18/2006, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Elementary Education Form B: Objectives And Requirements 09/15/2006, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

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Secondary Education Form B: Objectives And Requirements 09/15/2006, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

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Vol. 57, No. 1, August 28, 2006, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Tips for Early Interview Week and Beyond •All I Ever Needed to Know About OCI I Learned Doing My Laundry •Get Your Dream Job in Your Dream City •Top 10 Things Not to Say on Callbacks •If You Can Dodge the Wrench You Can Dodge These Interview Questions •The OCI Drinking Game! •The Opening of Law School Dating Season •10 Things Not to Do as a Summer Associate •Crossword •Green OCI

Linking The Undergraduate Degree To The Graduate Degree: Core Curriculum Issues, Karen F. Steckol, Marc A. Fagelson, Dan C. Tullos

ETSU Faculty Works

There are many issues that relate to the efficacy of the undergraduate degree in the field of communicative disorders. Some have advocated for the elimination of the degree while others vigorously fight to maintain it. Some believe that there should be clinic associated with the undergraduate degree while others argue to have the degree but without clinic. Some state departments of education allow persons with an undergraduate degree in communicative disorders to practice in the schools, others do not. Colleges and universities are afraid that without an undergraduate degree program, their departments will be seen as vulnerable to elimination in …

Is 1038 Course Proposal 04/06/2006, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Campus Assembly Summary Fall 2006, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater State College Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 2006-2007, Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater State College Catalogs, 1960-2009

No abstract provided.

4 Practical Resources For Linking Service Learning And The Florida Sunshine State Standards, Florida Learn & Serve

Curriculum

In the 1990s, the Florida Department of Education (FLDoE) and other state education agencies established and adopted education standards to cover major curricular areas in K-12 public education. Florida's standards are linked with statewide assessments in reading, writing, mathematics, and science. The statewide assessment, termed the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test, or FCAT, is a primary tool used to evaluate student and school performance. Student promotion and graduation are based partly on FCAT scores. In addition, schools receive a grade each year, from A-F, based on their students' FCA T performance and other weighted factors.

Developing A Curriculum To Train The Lay Leaders In Ghana, Isaac Bimpeh Boateng

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ghana is growing at a very fast rate. The rate of growth far exceeds the rate at which ministers are trained. There were over 300,000 baptized members at the end of 2005 and fewer than 200 pastors. The pastor to laity ratio is therefore very high. Some of the elders who are assisting the pastors do not have the needed skills to work effectively as leaders. As a result of this there is an increase in apostasies especially among new converts.

Method

In an attempt to train the laity in Ghana to assist the …

Geog 3251 Course Proposal 12/01/2005, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Vol. 56, No. 6, November 15, 2005, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Professors Provide Powerful Exam Tips •Question on the Quad •Professor Herzog Talks Torts, Teaching, and Swift •Over 70 M-Law Students 'Get Arrested' With New Club •Academic Journals: Humanity's Only Hope? •Introducing the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop •Abandon All Cell Phones, All Ye Who Enter •Jenny Runkles Photos •Three Years in the Life of 3L Section ABCD •2L Speaks Out on Gender, Grades, and Giving Hugs •Addiction Can be a Good Thing •On the Supreme Court, Love and Basketball •'Twas the Night Before Finals

Reshaping The Fredericksburg City Public Schools Secondary Choral Music Curriculum, Heidi Ribel

Education 590 Projects

As new music educators enter the work force today, many struggle to find instructional resources that align correctly with the National Standards for music. The purpose of my study is to examine the Fredericksburg City Public School’s secondary choral curriculum to see how it aligns with the Virginia Standards of Learning for Music Education. An updated curriculum is an essential teaching resource for all new music educators; however, the Fredericksburg City School System’s music curriculum was last updated in 1985 (Fredericksburg City Public Schools, 1985). Since then, there has been an adoption of National Standards for music (National Standards, 1994) …

To Wonder, Wander, And Linger In The World Of Standardized Testing, Randall Wright, Alayne Sullivan

Journal of Critical Issues in Educational Practice

The standards movement began as a nobly-intended effort to establish a core curriculum—a template of knowledge and skills that would guide teaching and learning across the K-12 curriculum. Our attempts to standardize curriculum may have unintended and deleterious side-effect: The atrophying of the mind’s natural tendencies for exploratory play and inherently imaginative dimensions. This paper engages us in a critical remembering of our pedagogical relationships with children. It reminds us of children’s ways of being and asks how we might engage them in a rigorous appreciation of curricular literacies without thwarting their wonderful wanderings. Ultimately, we worry about the place …

Vol. 55, No. 16, April 12, 2005, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Our Neighbor from the North: A Chat with Professor Pottow, Eh? •Top Ten Tips to Exams •Asking About 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' •Celebrating the Life of John Pickering, '40 •Environmental Law Society Spurs Global Warming Debate •How to Survive Law Firm Rejection •Playground Choice of Law: A Farewell to Law School •An Open Letter to Our Community: What We're Not Talking About •'Old Hollywood' Winter Formal Photos •Get Your Dream Job in Your Dream City •Computing My Life Happiness Average •Dr. Strangelove, Esq: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Undergrads

First Experiences With Object Lessons In Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Origins Of A Progressive Pedagogy For The Brazilian Primary School, Karl M. Lorenz, Ariclê Vechia

Education Faculty Publications

This paper describes the methodology of Object Teaching and relates how its appearance in Brazil was a transnational phenomenon that achieved its maximum articulation in 1886 with Rui Barbosa’s translation of Norman Calkins’ Primary Object Lessons. It begins with an overview of primary school teaching in Brazil in the second half of the 19th century, followed by discussion of Barbosa’s ideas on promoting change in the schools. Central to the exposition are the ideas contained in a report that Barbosa submitted to the National Assembly in 1882, in which he proposed a new organization of primary school education, suggestions for …

Mandating Supplemental Intervention Services: Is New York State Doing Enough To Help All Students Succeed?, Kieran M. Killeen, John W. Sipple

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

As states have become more active in establishing curriculum content standards and related assessments disappointingly little attention has been paid to policy efforts that create learning opportunities for students to meet the new standards. This study examines one state policy designed to bolster the opportunity to learn by mandating additional instruction for students not currently achieving proficiency in the state standards. ...

Recycling Service-Learning Project, Cesar Chavez Foundation

Curriculum

11th grade students identified needs related to excess campus trash and a school budget crisis. They chose to tackle both issues by expanding South Gates recycling program. Students partnered with the LA Conservation Corps recycling programto set-up a large recycling bin, arrange for pick-up and disposal, and generate proceeds for school improvement. The students were responsible for a major education campaign on campus as well as the logistics of the project including the location of the recycling bin. The education campaign included: making and distributing posters and flyers, classroom and PowerPoint presentations on recycling, intercom announcements, and information on the …

Perspectives On Curriculum Construction At The Postsecondary Level: Contexts, Approaches, Principles, Heidi Byrnes

Russian Language Journal

A curriculum is an attempt, wrote Stenhouse three decades ago (1975, 4), to communicate the essential principles and features of an educational proposal in such a form that it is open to critical scrutiny and capable of effective translation into practice.

If one applies that notion of curriculum to the foreign language field in general, and to second- or foreign-language learning in U.S. colleges and universities in particular, one is immediately confronted with a dilemma: how can we speak of a foreign-language curriculum at the college level when a principled approach that is open to scrutiny and that builds on …

Span 3601 Course Proposal 10/26/2004, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Minutes 10/07/2004, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.