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The spiral approach is a technique often used in education where the initial focus of instruction is the basic facts of a subject, with further details being introduced as learning progresses. Throughout instruction, both the initial basic facts and the relationships to later details are repeatedly emphasized to help enter into long-term memory ...
In accordance with this understanding of learning, Bruner proposed the spiral curriculum, a teaching approach in which each subject or skill area is revisited at intervals, at a more sophisticated level each time. First there is basic knowledge of a subject, then more sophistication is added, reinforcing principles that were first discussed.
[162] [163] The basic idea behind Dance's helical model of communication is also found in education theory in the spiral approach proposed by Jerome Bruner. [164] Dance's model has been criticized based on the claim that it focuses only on some aspects of communication but does not provide a tool for detailed analysis. [162]
The MMCP uses a spiral curriculum that sequentially introduces new concepts in action-oriented cycles that are developmentally appropriate. The "spiral curriculum" concept was first proposed by Jerome Bruner in 1960, and has since been the model for many school curricula in the US. A typical MMCP sequence of events is as follows:
The spiral model is a risk-driven software development process model. Based on the unique risk patterns of a given project, the spiral model guides a team to adopt elements of one or more process models, such as incremental , waterfall , or evolutionary prototyping .
Co-founders of the company Kidaptive, Dylan Arena, (left) chief learning officer and P.J. Gunsangar, CEO with the Leo's Pad app dispayed on an iPad at their headquarters on Wednesday Nov. 21, 2012 ...
On PBS, Jamie Dimon described the Buffett Rule as a good idea for clamping down on US debt. It says richer households shouldn't pay taxes on a smaller share of income than middle-class ones.
Educational scholar Bo Dahlin describes the Waldorf approach to science education as follows: Teaching about any natural phenomenon [begins] with pure observations, for instance of an experiment such as the refraction of light in passing a prism, consciously holding back any theorizing about it.