Curriculum Laboratory

Educational Issues Research Guide

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Throughout your time in the Faculty of Education, you will often be asked to research and/or discuss some of the major educational and teaching issues.  Below are some of these issues, as well as suggested subject search terms, for both the Library Catalogue, and the education databases available through the University Library web page.

Topic: Possible library catalogue search terms: Possible ERIC and/or education database search terms:

-Physical organization of the classroom
-First day in the classroom
-Beginning teachers
-Classroom environment
-First year teachers
-Classroom environment
-Classroom design
-Classroom furniture
-Beginning teachers
-What is teaching?
-Teaching styles
-Teacher expectations

-Teachers
-Teaching
-Effective teaching
-Teaching (Occupation)
-Teaching methods
-Teaching styles

-Learning styles
-Individualized instruction
and student differences
-Multi-graded classrooms
-Differentiated learning
-Multiple intelligences
-Cognitive styles
-Multiple intelligences
-Individualized instruction
-Mixed ability grouping in education

-Title search:  Combined grades manual
-Individualized instruction
-Multiple intelligences
-Peer teachers
-Learning strategies
-Cognitive style

Classroom management:
Planning
-Alberta curriculum
-Yearly plans
-Lesson plans
-"Sponge" or transition activities

-Classroom management
-Curriculum planning Alberta
-Lesson planning
-Games (including Vertical File), Educational games, First year teachers, Activity programs in education
-Classroom techniques
-Lesson plans
-Games, Educational games, Management games, "Google" search: "Sponge activities."


Classroom management:
Motivation
-Positive expectation

-Classroom management
-Motivation in education
-Classroom techniques
-Learning motivation
-Student motivation
Classroom management:
Discipline
-School discipline
-Student behavior
-Discipline
-Classroom techniques
-Discipline problems
-Special education,
disabilities, and
special needs
-Mainstreaming
-People with disabilities
-Children with disabilities
-Mainstreaming in education
-Special education
-Disabilities
-Inclusive schools
-Special education
-Special needs students
-Mainstreaming
Violence in the schools
-Bullying
-School violence
Title search: Safe and caring schools

-Violence
-Bullying
Group work in education
-Group work in education
-Cooperative learning
-Team learning approach in education
-Cooperative learning
-Group activities
-Alternative schooling
-Home schooling
-Back to the basics
-Community schools

-Free schools
-Education experimental methods
-Open plan schools
-Home schooling
-Community schools

-Nontraditional education
-Experimental schools
-Home schooling
-Community schools

Technology in the classroom
-Educational technology
-Computer assisted instruction
-Educational technology
-Computers
-Computer uses in education
Evaluation of students
(e.g. standardized tests)

-Educational evaluation
-Educational tests and measurements
-Assessment
-Student records

-Hint: also look at ATA website

-Student evaluation
-Educational testing
-Report cards
-Scoring rubrics
Networking:
Teacher as a professional

-Teaching
-Teachers training of
-Teachers professional ethics

Keyword search:  Teaching profession
-Hint:  also look at A.T.A. website
-Teaching (Occupation)
-Professional development
-Ethics
Networking:
Communication with parents

-Parent teacher relationships

-Parent teacher conferences
-Parent school relationship
-Parent teacher cooperation

-Keyword:  education and parent participation
-Keyword: home and school

-Teacher stress
-Teacher wellness

-Teacher turnover
-Teachers job stress
-Wellness
-Stress management
-Teacher burnout
Gender issues
-Gender identity
-Sex role
-Sex discrimination
-Sexism
-Sexism in education
-Gender issues
-Sex role
-Sex differences
-Sexual identity
-Sex discrimination
Multiculturalism

-Multiculturalism
-a specific culture (ie. Italian Canadians)
-Pluralism (Social sciences)

-Cultural pluralism

(DO NOT USE multicultural education, which is something different)
Racism in the classroom

-Racism
-Discrimination in schools
-Race discrimination

-Racial discrimination

-Racial relations
First Nations education (both on & off reserves)

-Indians of North America education Canada
-Indians of North America education

-American Indian education
-American Indian languages
-Native speakers

-Teacher evaluation
-Supervision
-Portfolios

-Teachers rating of
-Student teachers supervision of
-Portfolios in education
-Teachers in-service training

-Portfolios (Background materials)
-Professional development
-Teacher evaluation
-Teacher supervision

-Private schools
-Charter schools

-Private schools
-Charter schools
-Private education

-Languages in education
-French as a second language
-French immersion
-English as a second language

-French language study and teaching as a second language
-French language study and teaching
-French language study and teaching immersion method
-English language study and teaching as a second language
-English language study and teaching foreign speakers
-Second language acquisition

-Bilingualism
-Second language instruction
-Second language programs
-Second languages

-Religion in schools
-Separate schools
-Parochial schools
-Private schools

-Religion in the public schools
-Religious education
-Christian education
-Religious education of children
-Catholic Church education
-Private schools
-Church schools

-Catholic schools
-Parochial schools
-Religious education
-Religion
-Private schools
-Private education

-School culture/climate
-Youth culture
-Students' view of schools

-School environment
-Youth
-Students attitudes AND education

-Student attitudes
-Student school relationship
-Student subcultures
Student clothing

-School children clothing
-Clothing and dress
-Uniforms

-Dress codes
-School uniforms

Rural education

Education, Rural

Rural education

Media violence

-Violence in mass media
-Violence on television
-Mass media and children

-Mass media effects
-Violence

ADHD/ADD

-Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
-Attention-deficit-disordered children

-Attention deficit disorders
-Hyperactivity

FAS/FAE

Fetal alcohol syndrome

Fetal alcohol syndrome

Street kids

-Street children
-Homeless youth

Homeless people
-Youth OR Adolescents

Safe/Dry Grad
-School responsibility

-Youth Alcohol use Prevention
-High school students
-Entertaining

-Graduation
-Drinking
-High school graduates
-School responsibility

Field trips

-School field trips
-Field work (Educational method)

-Field trips
-School responsibility

-School funding
-Voucher systems
-Fund raising
-School taxes

-Education finance
-Educational vouchers
-Educational fund raising

-Educational finance
-School funds
-Educational vouchers
-Fund raising
-School taxes
-Fees
Hidden curriculum

-Values
-Moral education
-School environment
Keywords: hidden curriculum
Title search: safe and caring schools

-Hidden curriculum
-Values
-Educational environment
-Values education
-School security

Prepared by: Bill Glaister and Margaret Rodermond, August 2006. Updated September 2009.