This guide includes a set of concrete actions relating to the use of instructional and study time that are applicable to subjects that demand a great deal of content learning, including social studies, science, and mathematics. The guide was developed with some of the most important principles to emerge from research on learning and memory in mind.   The recommendations are intended to provide teachers with specific strategies for organizing both instruction and students’ studying of material to facilitate learning and remembering information, and to enable students to use what they have learned in new situations.

The Adolescent Literacy KnowledgeBase provides ways to integrate literacy and content area instruction across grades 4 through 12. The KnowledgeBase supports content teachers with resources to make their teaching more effective.  The four elements in this KnowledgeBase are (a) Nature of Adolescence; (b) Adolescent Literacy Concepts; (c) School and Community Context; and (d) Literacy and Content Area Instruction Integration. (Located at the University of Oklahoma, the Mid-Continent Comprehensive Center is a regional technical assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.)

Integrated studies combines curriculum from two or more disciplines, allowing students to see how ideas are connected.  Teaching in such a contextual manner promotes collaboration, critical thinking, and knowledge retention.  The current topics of videos are: (a) An introduction to Integrated Studies and (b) Common Sense: An Overview of integrated Studies. (Edutopia is published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, an independent, nonprofit operating entity located in San Rafael, California.)