101 Ways to Integrate Personal Development into Core Curriculum: Lessons in Character Education for Grades K‐12

Citation

Wells, S. (2000), "101 Ways to Integrate Personal Development into Core Curriculum: Lessons in Character Education for Grades K‐12", International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 14 No. 5, pp. 240-240. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijem.2000.14.5.240.1

This book could easily be overlooked as being relevant only to the American context. If this happens, then teachers in England and Wales and within the Scottish system of education will be deprived of a book that simply should be regarded as required reading, and a key resource. Given the DfEE’s emphasis on citizenship education (combined with the increased workloads on teachers) this book will provide hard‐pressed professionals with some outstanding lesson plans.

In the booklet Planning the National Curriculum at Key Stage 2 the National Curriculum Council sets out quite prescriptive guidelines for curriculum planning. While the focus in the trials was Key Stage 2, the foreword goes on to state “it should provide a good basis for planning at any key stage”. Mary Conroy’s book will meet the need for all teachers having to plan for the National Curriculum.