... that teachers seek to cultivate through classroom instruction. This article reports on the ways that middle grades and high school social studies and English teachers in Chicago Public Schools' (CPS) IB programmes are attempting to implement the Learner Profile as part of their classroom practice to support...

..., but critical questions remain. The purpose of this paper is to explore the question: what is the experience of the secondary social studies teacher candidate as he/she teaches about religion in a high school, world history course? Design/methodology/approach This study employed a phenomenological approach...

...Sarah Mead; Cheryl R. Ellerbrock Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight how one high school psychology teacher helped students explore the concept of identity exploration and express their own personal identity through the use of contemporary art in a high school psychology course...

...Lorrei DiCamillo This qualitative case study investigated an interdisciplinary expedition in an urban high school (based on the Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound model). The author wanted to understand what happened during an expedition and how the Global History teacher perceived teaching...

... found students self-reported learning: the content of economics how to structure their paper, the discourse of economics. They further gained an understanding of why economists write. Emerald Publishing Limited 2014 writing writing instruction high school economics mentor texts disciplinary...

...Anand R. Marri; Scott Wylie; Robert Shand; Maureen Grolnick; Timothy J. Huth; Louise Kuklis This project presents an opportunity for high school social studies teachers to infuse content on the federal budget, national debt, and budget deficit into civics-courses. The federal budget influences...

...Don R. Leet; Jane S. Lopus Because economics is increasing in importance in the high school curriculum, it is critically important that it is taught well by well-trained teachers. We offer suggestions for teaching high school economics in the areas of content, methodology, materials...