eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2015

The myth that good teachers have the Midas touch and therefore don’t need curriculum programs has been around for decades. Some packages simply did not have much to offer, while others talked down to teachers, as the oft-used phrase “teacher-proof curriculum” suggests. Expecting teachers to go it alone hurts school improvement.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2016

. “Part of our curriculum design is project-based learning. We try to design our curriculum around how the real world functions,” said Linnea Garrett, ChiTech school director. “We really believe we can ground meaning behind the curriculum when there are real-world applications.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

These educators work directly with teachers and administrators, serving as mentors, curriculum writers, and professional learning facilitators for our workforce. This question is anchored in a quote from Dr. Maya Angelou: “Do the best you can until you know better. Our math curriculum now includes spaced practice at all grade levels.

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Questions Teaching Education Learning 184

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

If the teacher is the only person thinking critically about learning goals, progress, skill development, curriculum design, and assessment, that is a missed opportunity. Teaching metacognitive skills that encourage students to become more aware of their learning can help them shift from passive to active participants in the classroom.

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Metacognitive Skills Grades Curriculum Design English 420

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The science can and should guide curriculum design. school districts that have adopted Reading Horizons Discovery , their foundational literacy curriculum for grades K–3. Those teachers observed implementing the curriculum with high degrees of fidelity are seeing the fastest results for their students.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The engineering process actually involves several steps, from asking questions to determining if the student’s design solves the problem. 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.

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Failure Learning STEM Curriculum Design 280

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Technology can offer benefits in assessment by providing support for generating questions and allowing students to demonstrate their knowledge in various ways. Considering the amount of professional development we provide teachers on curriculum design and instructional planning, how can we not invest resources in improving how teachers grade?

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Grades Curriculum Design Motivation Discussions 279

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

She has dedicated much of her career to helping educators integrate technology with purpose into their curriculum. I didn't have any background in games and learning, but I did have a background in curriculum design, school design and educational technology. It's the same way you would start any kind of curriculum design.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

When students feel more comfortable with all their peers and their teacher, they’ll likely feel more relaxed engaging and asking questions. When their questions and interests can guide how a teacher dives into a topic, they’re likely to be more receptive to the lessons, as well. Topics are Explored In-Depth. Teachers Stick Around.

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Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 267

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Specifically, she’s launched Reconstruction , a collection of online courses and curriculum focused on Black contributions to American and world history, targeted specifically at Black students. What would a national Black curriculum look like? And by May, we had hired close to 30 curriculum writers.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. Curriculum and Teaching Curriculum and teaching is top of mind for students curious about educational technology, and this was the most frequent topic that students have written about about so far.

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Fairness Education Students Disabilities 163

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

González and Framingham State University, where she is interim director of Whittemore Library, are part of a consortium in Massachusetts looking to answer different questions. some of the principles being stripped out of the curriculum are why we’re here,” she says. “We she says research has borne that out. this is important here?culturally

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Textbooks Culture Students Participation 187

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

The pressure of keeping up with our district’s curriculum map, getting through all the standards and preparing these struggling math students for Algebra I, led me to utter the worst possible sentence in that moment: “Time to start our next unit: Percents, Proportions and Ratios.” My heart sank.

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Learning Math Testing Exams 165

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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. They can present evidence to support their findings, such as photos, videos, and statistics.

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Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

2016) depict co-creation in learning and teaching as an activity involving staff and student collaborative work to create parts of the curriculum and pedagogical approaches. The latter aspect also fits with the pedagogic co-design student role classification as depicted in Bovill et al. Bovill et al., 2016) related to Healey et al.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

Students are increasingly questioning the necessity and return on investment (ROI) of a four-year degree. How students engage with their professors, the methods used to evaluate learning and retention and course curriculum design will all be influenced by the opportunities and challenges posed by AI.

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Ethics 169

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The average student gets just two of the ten questions right. By marrying those two things together—the curriculum design, which is very engineering-like, and the classroom performance, which is very artistic—you get the John Branch combination. But failure is the whole point of the exercise.

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

The curriculum, designed to serve the school’s exclusively Native population, emphasizes Navajo language and culture as much as it does the Common Core standards. His team works with schools like STAR to provide rigorous, place-based curriculum, focusing on small, rural districts. McClennen explains.

Education 124

Education Schools History Culture 124

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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. They can present evidence to support their findings, such as photos, videos, and statistics.

Authentic Assessment 111

Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

2016) depict co-creation in learning and teaching as an activity involving staff and student collaborative work to create parts of the curriculum and pedagogical approaches. The latter aspect also fits with the pedagogic co-design student role classification as depicted in Bovill et al. Bovill et al., 2016) related to Healey et al.

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Discussions Reading Instructors Lecturing 97

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2017

That was the first question posed by special guest and former EdSurgent Mary Jo Madda at #DLNchat on December 12 when we discussed The Skills Gap—Fact or Fantasy? with fellow instructional designers, faculty, administrators and entrepreneurs. But before we could answer that question there was a lot to discuss….

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Skills Discussions Languages Language 76

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

It will last only one calendar year, feature a curriculum designed in close coordination with well-known employers, and cost nothing—at least at the outset. The whole model seems designed to scale easily, and he says the amount and speed of growth will depend on student demand. For now, she says that answer is “unclear.”

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Art Lecturing Writing Curriculum 132

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Participants will work in triads throughout the workshop to ensure that multiple lenses and perspectives are informing our design work. This will NOT be a sit-and-get session with a few questions at the end. The one question I’m asking at ISTE 2013. Supporting research. Register here! Related Posts.

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Mental Models Participation Coaching Questions 97

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We share background about the student-faculty partnership program, define linguistic implicit biases, provide examples of how these biases manifest, offer recommendations for how to challenge them, and invite a dialogue through discussion questions. Image courtesy of Unsplash.

Teaching 98

Teaching Instructors English Languages 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

For instance, the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (CAST, 2018) is a commonly used design framework that curriculum developers and educators use to optimize teaching and learning. These concepts apply to both the curriculum or content and the environment. References Billings, Dianne M., and Judith A.

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Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

For instance, the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (CAST, 2018) is a commonly used design framework that curriculum developers and educators use to optimize teaching and learning. These concepts apply to both the curriculum or content and the environment. References Billings, Dianne M., and Judith A.

Learning 111

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

These concepts apply to both the curriculum or content and the environment. She serves as the principal course developer and curriculum designer who possesses a high level of proficiency in a student-centered approach to curriculum development, design, building, and delivery.

Learning 111

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Those were a couple of questions that popped up at #DLNchat on Tuesday, August 14. Those were questions looming throughout the chat. A2: Maybe a better question would be, “how can institutions work together?” When students master a competency, have they mastered it for life? DLNchat — CBENetwork (@CBENetwork) August 14, 2018.

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Authentic Assessment Education Curriculum Design Knowledge 81

Faculty Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

Lesson Observation : This includes observing a teaching session with all its happenings such as teaching strategies, students engagement, modes of interaction, indicators of learning, assessment tasks, questioning techniques, and learning activities.

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Evaluation Teaching Teaching Methods Faculty Development 102

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2016

All of the curriculum we have developed has followed a similar principle: ensure that all students are connected, acquiring new knowledge and building confidence as they progress through concrete steps. For computer science , this means we have done a tremendous amount of in-house curriculum design.

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Science Math Schools Interdisciplinary 82

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

I have questions about whether or not being a public [university] will rein in what we know profit does to higher education. Well, you've answered all my questions. What worries me most is that [public institutions] haven’t thought about it. You have to cobble them together from like four or five providers, but they’re there.

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Curriculum Design Research Design Motivation Accessibility 139

Faculty Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

Lesson Observation : This includes observing a teaching session with all its happenings such as teaching strategies, students engagement, modes of interaction, indicators of learning, assessment tasks, questioning techniques, and learning activities.

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Evaluation Teaching Teaching Methods Faculty Development 96

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

We wanted participants in the collaboration to be diverse, with faculty, staff, administrators and curriculum designers contributing, and we wanted students to be the focus of our discussions. Together, they reviewed the maps and exchanged insights about curriculum design and ways to work effectively with faculty.

Learning 73

Learning Curriculum Design Faculty Development Discussions 73

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Transcend’s leaders consider their work “research and development” for schools and districts that are redesigning their models because they apply learning sciences, motivation sciences and implementation sciences to the biggest questions school operators are wrestling with. and “How do we bring our vision to life?”

Education 126

Education Schools Middle School Achievement 126

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

These concepts apply to both the curriculum or content and the environment. She serves as the principal course developer and curriculum designer who possesses a high level of proficiency in a student-centered approach to curriculum development, design, building, and delivery.

Learning 92

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 92

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

The greater the access to higher education, the more dynamic a curriculum must be to effectively and equitably educate and elevate the learning experiences of all students. Two Forms of Curriculum in Higher Education There are two forms of curriculum in higher education.

Course Design 62

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 62

Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? And more importantly, should we?

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