AIDS Education
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9 page presentation of an educational program designed by the writer to teach adolescents how to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. Includes comprehensive test continuing multiple choice, true/false, matching and short-answer essays to test student's knowledge. Rationales are provided for each of the questions to explain how each of them tests to ensure that students have achieved one of five program goals by correctly answering them. Useful for those studying curriculum/instruction and classroom teaching. Bibliography contains 5 sources.
Filename: Aidsedu.wps

Promoting AIDS Awareness In Schools
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A 10 page research paper discussing AIDS / HIV awareness education in public schools in America. Several programs are cited, including the American Red Cross program and a multi-media interactive program that is free to all. Bibliography includes 10 references.
Filename: Aidsschl.wps

An Internet Based Academic Activity for School Age Children
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This 3 page paper involves a look at academic web sites, particularly designed for teachers, and reviews one of the activities found. The activity chosen is related to science and involves concepts related to the size and function of the human brain. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: SA418Big.rtf

Strategic Plan for Pedagogical Improvement
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AThis 10 page paper considers a case where a primary school has gone through a pedagogy audit and the school is performing poorly in area of student learning. There has been a structure and leadership change put into place to improve the organizational culture of school. The next stage is to develop a strategy for improvement, this strategy is contained in the paper, which looks at who issues, who the stakeholders are, the goals and then the strategy to be adopted including looking at both the environment and teaching models that are used. The bibliography cites 12 sources.
Filename: TEpedimp.rtf

'Multi-Age' Or 'Ungraded' Classrooms / How They Compare?
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A 10 page paper on the evolving organization of schools,which has come full circle in the way in which students are moved through the educational system. Starting with nineteenth century 'common schools' that did not separate children by age, through the introduction of graded schools in the mid-1800s which resulted in 'ungraded classrooms' for non-achieving students, the writer covers the twentieth century equivalent of these separate but unequal classes in 'special education' arrangements.for students not matching the lockstep of an age-graded system. Most recently, inclusive, multi-age classrooms and non-graded schools embody the philosophy that all children can learn--at their own pace and in their own way, with the help and example of peers of all ages. Bibliography lists 24 references.
Filename: Multiage.wps