Curriculum developers have in the past almost invariably structured and developed curricula from the perspective of the teacher. Our contention is that no matter what curriculum framework is employed, nor what principles teachers use in organizing the subject matter, learners are going to structure that subject matter in their own ...

Children say they can write but that they can not read. They can hold a crayon, marker, pencil or some other kind of writing instrument and they can produce some form of written expression. When this school year began I wanted to find out what my first graders attending the ...

All classroom teachers make quantitative assessments of how well their students are performing and frequently must combine marks from several different essays, tests, exercises or subjects to obtain an overall measure of achievement. At the simplest level, a teacher may combine the several marks for the essays or extended answers ...

Learning to read is a remarkable human achievement: a possibility realized by the invention of written language. Each new member of our culture is expected to make use of this invention. How do children learn the skills which enable them to do this?

Project PATH is investigating issues and developing material for Parents As Teachers of the Handicapped. It was set up at the University of Waikato in February 1978 and will end in September 1981. The philosophy behind it comes from three powerful ideas which have emerged in the last decade, ideas ...

We in Australia and New Zealand are proud of the way we broke free of the British class system when we set up our own nations. In the new lands Jack and Jill became as good as the Master and Mistress. However, as the world becomes economically, if not culturally ...

Once upon a time there was a passerby who stopped to watch three workmen going about their labours on a building site. After a time he approached each of the workmen in turn and asked them what they were doing. The first man replied: 'I 'm laying bricks, for $4.50 ...

What aids our understanding of what we read? Firstly good writing, clear print, diagrams, and so on. As well as these, we can take notes, or underline important points; teachers and textbooks writers can insert questions in the text, and special paragraphs which help organize our ideas can be given ...

Educational testing, once the subject of debate by teachers and other professionals, is now being debated in public forums and in open court. Public concern has been most clearly expressed in the United States where standardized educational testing has been debated in the media, in state legislatures and in Congress ...

The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 1981 as the International Year of Disabled Persons. The theme is the full participation of disabled people in all aspects of community life. There is a need for greater public awareness of the effects of disablement, and for an appreciation of the disabling ...