curriculum planning

Pullout graphic organizer developed to show how five major curricular and instructional models or concepts can interface with one antoher for designing high-quality lesson plans, interdisciplinary units, cooperativelearning tasks, thinking skills exercises, and assessment programs. The planner provides a set of three different outline formats which can be used to develop effective lesson plans that focus on the Mulutple Intelligences, the Taxonomies, or the Collaborative Model.

Explains how to incorporate the teaching of thinking into curricula, presenting a framework for designing staff development programs; discusses metacognition, critical and creative thinking, thinking processes, core thinking skills, and content-area knowledge.

A guide to curriculum content that profiles ten subject areas--language arts, math, science, social studies, foreign language, the arts, technology, physical education, health, and home economics--discussing issues regarding standards, goals, curriculum structure, research and evaluation, and planning resources.

Contains lesson plans, advice, and strategies for teaching mathematics using the block schedule.

Examines the role of the school library media specialist as an instructional consultant, and examines each step of the instructional design process.

A companion book to the "Understanding by Design" text, which provides a six-step guide to the theory of understanding, featuring a unit planning template, worksheets, exercises, design tools, design standards and tests, an a peer review process.

Shows teachers how to make the Internet useful for students, covering efficient searching, sound research, critical thinking, avoiding plagiarism, and other related topics.

Explains ways for teachers to incorporate executive functions into the classroom, discussing curriculum planning, organizing, prioritizing, and self-checking, and describing teaching tools and techniques, activities and suggestions for the whole classroom, and tips for differentiated instruction. Includes reproducible materials.