The topic under discussion is a film about the promotion of silk cultivation in Germany, for reasons of national self-sufficiency, in the early years of the Third Reich: Quite apart from their indubitable utility value, silkworms afforded an almost ideal object lesson for the classroom.
Therefore, data triangulation (Patton, 1990) was used to validate my interpretation of the data about the teachers' conceptions of inquiry, which was why apart from the interviews and the teachers' way of planning an ideal inquiry lesson, the EQUIP instrument was also used to assess the teachers' Level of Inquiry as observed in action.
This is a good history lesson, ideal both for youngsters and for baseball buffs who never get tired of hearing the old legends repeated.
Both were products of the ACCESS program a U.S. funded initiative that uses the teaching of English to deliver American ideals through innovative lesson design.
This literacy-based treasure hunt related to JK Rowling's online game Pottermore is ideal for a fun lesson for KS2 and KS3.
My first fear is of "British rights for British workers … " – a xenophobic ideal that forgets the lesson of the Holocaust: that human rights are for human beings, not only citizens of one kind or another.
Last month, the government's numeracy taskforce issued detailed guidelines for primary schools, calling for one hour of mathematics every day and outlining an ideal structure for the lessons.
If you have scheduled check-ins, consider setting aside five or 10 minutes during each to ask where they see themselves going, what their ideal jobs are, what lessons or skills they need to get there, and how you can help.
But challenges — and questions — arise when I try to translate my ideas (and ideals) into concrete lessons, delivered in 90-minute increments to a very particular set of sixth graders, each as individual and evanescent as a snowflake.
