curriculum planning

Contains articles that discuss ideas to improve and update the K-12 curriculum to prepare students for life in the twenty-first century, covering content and assessments, program structures, technology and media literacy, globalization, sustainability, and the thinking habits of students, teachers, and administrators.

Argues that art programs should be a core part of all school curriculum, explaining how integrating art into all areas of study can improve students' brain function and comprehension.

Presents twenty-six units for use in intermediate and middle school classrooms that show how to use literature to teach the math concepts of geometry, measurement, computation and estimation, statistics, algebra, patterns, and functions, and number relationships, systems, and theory.

Presents a supplement to classroom education in order to help second graders progress in school and be effective in society.

Writing is the subject of this book. Since writing across the curriculum has become an important part of the educational process, some lessons in this book cover more than one subject of the curriculum.

Presents the Dimensions of Learning teaching model for grades K-12, which integrates the five types of thinking that comprise the learning process; explicitly teaches mental habits and attitudes that facilitate learning; and focuses on students' use of knowledge instead of information recall.