Using the Interdisciplinary Approach to Education to Meet the Literacy Standards in the Common Core: and Ensuring Graduates are College and Career Ready
The implementation of the new Common Core State Standard Initiative (CCSS) warrants changes to current curriculums. This paper establishes the interdisciplinary approach to education as an effective method of instruction for the delivery of the new standards. The CCSS define literacy and college and career readiness anchor standards that students must meet in order to be successful post-secondary. The new English language arts (ELA) literacy shifts include: literacy instruction, content area vocabulary, increase in non-fiction or information texts, increased text complexity, and 21 st century skills are all successful skills to be taught using the interdisciplinary approach and team teaching. The paper establishes a definitive basis for students to have these skills in order to be considered college and career ready in accordance with the new Common Core state standards. This approach can includes collaboration, thematic units, cross-curricular projects, or integrated in order to meet the standards.
Evaluation on the Implementation of the Round Robin Scheme in the Secondary Schools of Division of Pasay
One of the prominent features of K to 12 Curriculum is ensuring unified and seamless learning. This is done with the introduction of spiral progression and horizontal articulation. The Round Robin Scheme schedule was practiced in the Secondary Schools in the division where teachers handle subjects which are of their specialization or which they have mastered through the length of time teaching the subject to address teachers’ concern on the content of teaching and learning. This research sought to find out the perceptions of both teachers and learners through a questionnaire and a focus group discussion form the administrators. The research revealed that the scheme implemented has a very positive impact on the content, pedagogy, and assessment of learners, the lessons were applied to situations and contexts common to everyday experience, the lessons helped learners construct meaningful learning experiences, allows use of classroom activities to a very great extent which help learners learn easily, ensured that learners collaborate and share ideas among each other, ensured that evaluation takes place in the context of meaningful activities, allows the use of different ways to evaluate learning outcomes. Impact of the round robin scheme compared to that of the teach all scheme will be a good option for succeeding research. Index Terms round robin scheme, k-12 implementation, science teaching, horizontal articulation, teacher schedule
Reforming the Russian legal system
Preface 1. Pre-revolutionary Russian law 2. The Bolshevik experience 3. The history of legal reform 4. Forging a new constitution 5. Citizens and the state: the debate over the Procuracy 6. In search of a just system: the courts and judicial reform 7. Law and the transition to a market economy 8. Legal reform in the republics 9. Legal reform and the transition to democracy in Russia Appendix Notes Index.