Sunlight streamed through an oversized classroom window in Kisauni—a slum in Mombasa, Kenya—as a group of 6-year-olds fixed their eyes on their teacher. As he rhapsodized about the intricacies of ...

More schools in the U.S. are asking teachers to use scripted curriculum, an instructional method that outlines exactly what educators should say and what actions they need to take at each step in ...

Basic Education Department releases scripted lesson plans to the Public to allay fears regarding Comprehensive Sexuality Education Content. The Department of Basic Education has today released, on the ...

If scripted lesson plans produce the results their supporters claim, then no need exists to hire teachers in the first place (“Goodbye, Mr. & Ms. Chips,” Commentary, July 18, 2007). School boards ...

According to the Department of Basic Education, scripted lessons plans are being used in the pilot phase of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in selected schools. The pilot is being conducted in ...

The pilot is being conducted in areas that have recorded high HIV infection rates and a prevalence of sexual abuse. The CSE has been part of the curriculum since the year 2000. The only change is that ...

The Department of Basic Education (DBE), in partnership with USAID and the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE), has identified 56 quintiles 1 – 3 schools in the City of Johannesburg Region G, in the ...

True North Rochester Prep Charter School, the largest charter school in Monroe County, was taken to task recently by a teacher candidate who said he was asked to read verbatim from a scripted lesson.