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William "Bill" Elder Doll Jr. (January 29, 1931 – December 27, 2017) was an American educator, author and curriculum theorist. Doll's scholarly study started in progressivism, moved to Piaget, and gradually shifted to postmodernism, chaos theory and complexity and their implications for school curriculum. [1]
Culturally relevant teaching is instruction that takes into account students' cultural differences. Making education culturally relevant is thought to improve academic achievement, [1] but understandings of the construct have developed over time [2] Key characteristics and principles define the term, and research has allowed for the development and sharing of guidelines and associated teaching ...
The International Primary Curriculum (IPC) is an independent programme of education for learners aged 5 to 11, cited by The SAGE Handbook of Research in International Education in 2015 as one of the three major international systems of education [1] and one of two identified programmes specifically with international education objectives. [2]
sanctions—from allowing its students to move to other schools to being restructured. Schools that produce good scores are considered good education providers” (ZHAO, 2009). In short, No Child Left Behind increased the freedom of local families to make educational decisions for their children,
This is best described in the article, Digital Citizenship during a Global Pandemic: Moving beyond Digital Digital Literacy, "Critical digital civic literacy, as is the case of democratic citizenship more generally, requires moving from learning about citizenship to participating and engaging in democratic communities face‐to‐face, online ...
Understanding by Design, or UbD, is an educational theory for curriculum design of a school subject, where planners look at the desired outcomes at the end of the study in order to design curriculum units, performance assessments, and classroom instruction. [1]
In 1965, Miller became a History teacher at New York a High School. During his Bachelors and Masters studies, he had brief stints as Resident Advisor at Grinnell College and as instructor in education at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. After moving to Canada, he was a Graduate Assistant of Curriculum at OISE during his Doctoral studies.
The Children of the Rainbow Curriculum was a resource guide that contained 443 pages of suggested readings and lessons for teachers to help educate, develop, provide both academic and social skills to students and promote diversity, racial, and ethnic harmony and decrease prejudice and bigotry. [1]