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Debunking the myth that good teachers shouldn’t use curriculum aids

eSchool News

Some packages simply did not have much to offer, while others talked down to teachers, as the oft-used phrase “teacher-proof curriculum” suggests. The perception that good teachers reject textbooks and design their own curriculum has been a persistent belief of educators over the years. This myth has great appeal.

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From DC Chancellor to Edtech Founder: Kaya Henderson on Her New Venture in Culturally-Relevant Education

Edsurge

I want teachers and tutors and curriculum designers to be free to do the things that we think are good and right for kids. I think the first thing that we screen for in our instructors is a real belief that, like [American philosopher and activist] Cornel West says, “You can’t serve the people if you don’t love the people.”

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. She obtained her PhD in chemistry education from Bremen University/Germany.

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Automation Will Hit Young People Hardest. Can These Nonprofits Prepare Them for It?

Edsurge

Can you discuss the design considerations that you made to ensure that the content in your curriculum is accessible to the diverse students that you’re trying to serve? Tanner: First we centered the students themselves in our design process. I’ve heard you say the curriculum is more like TikTok than Scholastic.

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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

Faculty Focus

Siham Al Amoush is an experienced educator specializing in teacher education and higher education professional development, she obtained her PhD in Chemistry Education from Bremen University, where she researched and compared teacher beliefs in Jordan, Turkey, and Germany.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

Edsurge

Nonsense, Seymour said: “The language of these ads betrays the way in which this software throws away what is best about the contribution of game designers, and replaces it with what is worst about the contribution of school curriculum designers.”. While a visionary, he is also very much a realist.

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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

Faculty Focus

Siham Al Amoush is an experienced educator specializing in teacher education and higher education professional development, she obtained her PhD in Chemistry Education from Bremen University, where she researched and compared teacher beliefs in Jordan, Turkey, and Germany.