Year In Review 2005 – Page 2 – Curriculum Research & Development Group

CRDG Part of Bishop Museum Collaboration

Erin Baumgartner is part of a team working on an ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) grant at the Bishop Museum. Erin’s background which combines marine science, education, and museum research, made her ideal for this project. Her role…

Read Aloud Programs

Jim Harstad, of the CRDG English Section, is one of the developers and co-authors of the Golden Triangle language arts materials. In addition to his work in the Laboratory School and in curriculum development, Jim has brought his passion for…

Special Education Teachers on Kaua‘i Benefit from Mathematics

Instruction In the current educational clime, there is a heightened awareness of the need for all students to be successful in reading, writing, and mathematics. As one means of helping all teachers enhance their content knowledge in mathematics, the Kaua‘i…

Cross Currents

www.crosscurrents.hawaii.edu Work continued in 2005 on Cross Currents, a multimedia website that explores the relationship between the United States and Japan throughout the past fifty years. This bilingual site contains pictures, videos, graphs, and a variety of primary documents that…

A Daily Dose of Poetry

The Golden Triangle English program developed by the CRDG English Section is based on the concept of small daily doses of learning over many years. Students in the program do journal writing, dictation sentence study, and oral reading every day.…

CRDG Organization

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Donald B. Young, Dean CURRICULUM RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT GROUP Kathleen F. Berg, DirectorHelen O. Au, Assistant Director UNIVERSITY LABORATORY SCHOOL Keoni Jeremiah, PrincipalTracy Teixeira, Dean of StudentsMiki Tomita, Dean of Curriculum and Instruction Three CRDG faculty members…

X to whY: Algebra for Understanding

01. Overview: Helping students shift from arithmetic to algebra Many students experience learning difficulties in mathematics with the shift from arithmetic skills to algebraic ideas in middle and high school. Algebraic concepts and skills are the focus of instruction in…

CRDG Organization

X to whY: Algebra for Understanding

UHM CRDG staff member published as second author in The MIT Press Journals

Congratulations to CRDG’s Dean Lodes as second author on a paper published with the VR team in Presence, The MIT Press Journals. This highlights the Hōkūle‘a as the focus of the VR work and links it to classroom usage. Read article: Kilo Hōkū—Experiencing…

COE CRDG Staff Member Receives $44K Research Award from UH Sea Grant College Program

UH Mānoa College of Education (COE) Assistant Specialist Joanna Philippoff was awarded $44K from the University of Hawai‛i Sea Grant College Program. As part of the two-year grant project, Philippoff and Co-Directors Heather Spalding of the Botany Department and Craig Nelson of…

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