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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

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Plus, the available content was designed around how much time I’d spend teaching it versus what I actually needed to get students adept at learning the topic at hand. Despite the immense amount of work involved, my colleagues and I fine-tuned our curriculum every year based on student skill gaps and results from formative assessments.

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This school year, align teaching strategies with student learning styles

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Many students –– and instructors –– were abruptly forced to transition from traditional classroom learning to adopt a new remote format. It accelerated the emergence of a new dynamic learning environment, where students learn in innovative ways far different from how education systems were originally designed.

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The Balance with Catlin Tucker: Featuring Dr. Maria Hersey

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Maria Hersey is a global educator with extensive experience in educational leadership, international education, social-emotional learning (SEL), curriculum design, and global- mindedness. Dr. Hersey shares her experience working with teachers and students on the topic of social and emotional learning.

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6 reasons young children should learn engineering

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But younger children can learn and benefit from modified lessons. Next, Keith explored how engineering curriculum design parameters, as codified by Dr. Christine Cunningham, EiE founding director at Museum of Science, Boston, can be adapted for early education. She focused on six of Cunningham’s eight parameters.

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STEM teaching toolkit supports deeper learning

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A new STEM teaching toolkit from the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) aims to improve curriculum design through authentic, collaborative, project-based learning experiences.

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This tech academy is using project-based learning to close the STEM gap

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Across the country, more and more schools are implementing project-based learning and forging partnerships with businesses to help students build real-world skills to succeed in college and the workforce. “Part of our curriculum design is project-based learning.

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Rubicon Atlas, Schoolbox integrate curriculum with learning management

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Rubicon International, the creator of the curriculum management software platform Atlas, has announced a partnership with the learning management system (LMS) Schoolbox, created by Alaress. Having an effective curriculum directly connected to individual student outcomes is critical to improving teaching and learning.