New Curriculum for New Times

Neal A. Glasgow′s experience includes serving as a secondary school science and art teacher both in California and New York, as a university biotechnology teaching laboratory director and laboratory technician, and as an educational consultant and frequent speaker on many educational topics. He is the author or coauthor of ten books on educational topics: What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families: Fifty Research-Based Strategies for Teachers and Administrators (2008), What Successful Literacy Teachers Do: 70 Research-Based Strategies for Teachers, Reading Coaches, and Instructional Planners (2007), What Successful Teachers Do in Diverse Classrooms: 71 Research-Based Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers (2006); What Successful Teachers Do in Inclusive Classrooms: 60 Research-Based Strategies That Help Special Learners (2005); What Successful Mentors Do: 81 Researched-Based Strategies for New Teacher Induction, Training, and Support (2004); What Successful Teachers Do: 91 Research-Based Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers (2003); Tips for Science Teachers: Research-Based Strategies to Help Students Learn (2001); New Curriculum for New Times: A Guide to Student-Centered, Problem-Based Learning (1997); Doing Science: Innovative Curriculum Beyond the Textbook for the Life Sciences (1997); and Taking the Classroom to the Community: A Guidebook (1996).

• IntroductionFacing Today′s Curriculum ChallengesDeveloping New Curriculum for New TimesThe New Curriculum ApproachesOptions for Teaching and Learning TodayThe Problem-Based ApproachChanging Roles for TeachersNew Expectations of Students and ParentsMultiple Strategies for Successful Student TeamworkPutting it all Together: Exemplary ProjectsMentoringDeveloping New Relationships in EducationThe PortfolioManaging Problem-Based ExperiencesEvaluating Student-Centered LearningEnsuring that the Curriculum Measures UpInspiring Learning