This posting offers help with ideas and how to start on a task analysis for the procedures part of my lesson plan for (k-6).

This posting helps to create a task analysis (procedure) of your lesson plan.

Art and Education

What is the curriculum content that a successful early childhood art education program needs to include? Why? This is the topic for my research paper. Just wanting to see where I am supposed to begin. It is awfully vague.

This job offers an idea to help young children with research, discovery, and applying knowledge.

These questions are posed: How can teachers organize instruction and motivate young children to do research, discover, and apply knowledge?

Education/Science

How can teachers use the science curriculum to develop critical and reflective thinking skills in young children?

When would you use direct instruction versus indirect instruction?

When would you use direct instruction versus indirect instruction? Indirect instruction is demanding of the teacher, yet can be one of the most satisfying teaching strategies. What insights do you have about this statement?

A drama activity is briefly listed.

This job designs one activity that can be used for artistic learning. Choose among visual arts, dance, drama, or music.

Education and PE techniques are briefly covered.

These questions are brainstormed: What are the strategies, activities, and materials that are most effective for teaching health, safety, and physical education to young children along the developmental continuum?

PE and education

How do you think that cultural differences and gender expectations can impact health, safety, and physical education teaching methods and strategies in early childhood education?

Ideas about infusing Math and Early Education are listed.

This posting suggests creative methodology and strategies that teachers can develop to integrate mathematics with other early childhood curriculum content.

Special Ed.

In a grade 3/4 class in an Aboriginal community (with little resources), a beginning teacher is confronted by an extremely active class and a gifted student who continuously challenges him as well as the other students. Could you please explain to me the widely held assumptions or beliefs might be called into question given the ...continues