curricula

Presents themed units for teaching reading in grades 3-8 with the Guided Comprehension Model, in which students are guided in the use of reading strategies with a variety of texts and learning settings; includes units on multiple perspectives, mystery, favorite authors, poetry, fantasy, and biography/autobiography.

The author, a whole language kindergarten teacher, outlines her beliefs about how children learn; offers discussions of whole language theory and application, especially in the area of language arts; and includes bibliographies, and an appendix in which teachers share their successful classroom strategies.

Presents activities to introduce teachers, students, and parents to the concepts of multicultural education; focuses on three areas of the curriculum--language arts, social studies, and the arts; and provides resources to help teachers put together their own multicultural programs.

Provides practical guidelines to planning and implementing a block period schedule within the high school curriculum and offers advice on effectively teaching in a longer block of time.

Provides 150 useful lists for developing instructional materials and planning lessons for elementary and secondary students.

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.

Argues that public schools should take religion seriously and understand the role it plays in the kindergarten through twelfth grade curriculum and explains how religion can be incorporated into the classroom without promoting or practicing any specific religious beliefs and practices.

Lists selective, very selective, and most selective colleges for each of thirty-nine recommended undergraduate programs; suggests colleges for an additional eighty miscellaneous majors; and links colleges and majors to SAT-1 and ACT scores.

Lists over nine hundred majors at 3,600 accredited colleges and universities in the United States for degree levels from associate to PhD, and includes descriptions of two hundred of the most popular undergraduate majors.