Western Edge: The Western Oregon University Magazine

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The Influence of an Interdisciplinary Elementary Curriculum on Student Outcomes: Providing Cognitive Student Learning Through an Integrated Approach

In order to provide students at the elementary level a thorough and efficient method of learning, the integrated–interdisciplinary approach to teaching curriculum was explored to reveal the impact on student achievement of fourth graders across the state of New Jersey in a randomly selected grouping of 50 schools using integrated–interdisciplinary curriculum and 50 schools using subject-specific curriculum. The research was an investigation of the integrated–interdisciplinary approach to teaching when compared with subject-specific curriculum to explore the impact on student achievement. Integration of curriculum aligned to the state standards at the elementary level was a focus for this research; elementary curriculum is always expanding with the increased expectations from the demands of society. Using the state’s Grade 4 PARCC testing device to measure achievement over a 3-year time period revealed a significant positive difference in the outcome of student achievement for students using an integrated–interdisciplinary curriculum. These findings suggest a further consideration for using an integrated–interdisciplinary curriculum whenever possible at the elementary level for student learning. Throughout this research, the terms integration and interdisciplinary curriculum were utilized with an understanding that the terms may be interchangeable. The meaning produces the same outcome: a combination of various subject ideas taught in the same lesson to make connections across the curriculum

Western Oregon University 2005-2006 Course Catalog

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Western Oregon University 2004-2005 Course Catalog

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Western Oregon University 2003-2004 Course Catalog

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Western Oregon University 2006-2007 Course Catalog

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Annual Report 2020-2021

LETTER FROM THE DEAN As I write this letter during the beginning of the 2021–22 academic year, we have started to welcome the majority of our students to campus— many for the very first time, and some for the first time in a year and a half. It has been wonderful to be together, in-person, again. Four quarters of learning and working remotely was challenging, to be sure, but I have been consistently amazed by the resilience, innovation, and hard work of our students, faculty, and staff, even in the most difficult of circumstances. This annual report, covering the 2020–21 academic year—one that was entirely virtual—highlights many of those examples: from a second place national ranking by our Security Daemons team to hosting a blockbuster virtual screenwriting conference with top talent; from gaming grants helping us reach historically excluded youth to alumni successes across our three schools. Recently, I announced that, after 40 years at DePaul and 15 years as the Dean of CDM, I will be stepping down from the deanship at the end of the 2021–22 academic year. I began my tenure at DePaul in 1981 as an assistant professor, with the founding of the Department of Computer Science, joining seven faculty members who were leaving the mathematics department for this new venture. It has been amazing to watch our college grow during that time. We now have more than 40 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, over 22,000 college alumni, and a catalog of nationally ranked programs. And we plan to keep going. If there is anything I’ve learned at CDM, it’s that a lot can be accomplished in a year (as this report shows), and I’m committed to working hard and continuing the progress we’ve made together in 2021–22. David MillerDeanhttps://via.library.depaul.edu/cdmannual/1004/thumbnail.jp

Maine Perspective

October 1990 issue of the Maine Perspective newsletter containing multiple stories discussing the lack of sexual equity, pluralizm, and educational equity at the University of Maine and steps taken in an attempt to address these concerns

Maine Perspective: Campus Participation Sought for New Council on Pluralism

A Standing Council on Pluralism at the University of Maine has been established to help develop, shape and foster and ideal vision of a campus which includes and celebrates cultural differences. Formation of the Council is one of Lick\u27s responses to the recommendations set forth in the Report of the Commission on Pluralism for the University of Maine System, accepted by the Board of Trustees in January 1990

Kean Program Review - BA Biology 2019

Kean Program Review - BA Biology 201