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

DECEMBER 14, 2017

A: For decades now, the federal government has required public school teachers to implement “full inclusion” classrooms, where students of all levels and abilities are taught the same curriculum and lessons and given the same tests. As a result, gifted students can end up as an underserved population.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I write this book to support a critically important conversation that helps teachers to be more informed and conscious of the impact of our traditional grading practices, and that prepares them with the understanding and strategies to implement more equitable practices.

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Grades Curriculum Design Motivation Discussions 279

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Tyrone Howard, a professor of education who writes about research into students’ relationships with their teachers, said “I think schools in many ways have put the cart before the horse. For a student, individual attention can make the difference between effectively developing skills and just coasting along.

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Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 267

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2021

It starts with studying and discussing identity, and then using students’ understanding of identity as a foundation for infusing it into the entire curriculum. We even interviewed residents to learn about challenges they face, resulting in my students writing letters to local aldermen, advocating for change.

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Learning Feedback Testing Lecturing 218

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

I always envied how he could talk, tell stories, and write about big ideas in simple, jargon-free terms. Any of his speeches or writings make you think for hours, days, years! What is worst about school curriculum is the fragmentation of knowledge into little pieces. But his aren’t run-of-the-mill ideas. Constructionism.

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Knowledge Curriculum Design Intelligence Math 129

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

DON'T: Drone On, But Do PROD Here, then, is your resume-writing acronym: PROD. A hiring manager would much rather have those core elements in a simple, cleanly presented fashion than a beautifully designed resume that lacks information. Are you looking to expand as a Curriculum Designer? What’s your dream role?

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Writing Fairness Curriculum Design Testing 79

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Most people with “instructional design” in their job title are involved in converting “traditional” written curriculum or in-person teaching into an online course. Lesson 3: Determine the “powerful ideas” you want to teach and build your curriculum using backwards design.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

The most popular edtech job category doesn’t relate to design or administration—it’s all about curriculum writing. While edtech “sales” jobs do garner an admirable amount of attentions, over the past twelve months, “curriculum writer” has risen to the top, capturing more than a fourth of all pageviews.

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English Curriculum Design Attention Curriculum 98

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

The computer science curriculum is doing more than teaching underserved middle school students how to code. In the nine months since the school opened, students—the majority of whom had no coding experience—have progressed from using simple block-based programming tools to now writing code in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

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Schools Science Middle School Middle School 167

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. This requires them to do research so that they can demonstrate their skills.

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Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

If you write a policy or create some procedures by which all faculty need to approach their teaching in the same way, there are going to be some faculty for whom it's a perfect fit. People get PhDs in curriculum design, and I've never even taken a class where we've talked about curriculum design.

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Education Curriculum Design Science Instructors 121

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The new suite of offerings – which includes a range of AI tools, interactive lessons, and curriculum-supporting content – takes Canva from a classroom design tool to an end-to-end education platform capable of producing and teaching complete lessons with ease. Teachers can browse lessons by grade, subject and topic.

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Teachers Intelligence Students Communication 146

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.

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Art Lecturing Writing Curriculum 133

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Savini suggests that we ask ourselves what makes someone else’s writing unclear to us. Relevant and meaningful feedback on writing may vary between cultures, as language is also inextricably tied to culture. Advocate for students’ linguistic agency and cultural assets as resources in writing and learning processes.

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Teaching Instructors English Languages 98

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. This requires them to do research so that they can demonstrate their skills.

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Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

The Process: AI-Assisted Assignment Stress Testing After experimenting with systems like Claude and ChatGPT, I’ve discovered they can effectively analyze and refine writing prompts through the creation of simulated student responses. The AI analysis revealed several blind spots in my prompt design.

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Assignments Testing Course Design Writing 80

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

While MasterClass offers taped lectures on cooking by chef Gordon Ramsay, guitar shredding by musician Carlos Santana and creative writing by youth fiction author Judy Blume, the first Outlier courses teach calculus I and introductory psychology. Although the Outlier topics are decidedly more staid, they may serve a higher purpose.

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Lecturing Textbooks Course Design Instructors 116

Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

To emphasize, research indicates that curriculum designers and university stakeholders need to provide best-practice examples of how to utilize AI tools to effectively and positively promote the use of AI for students advantage (Deroncle-Acosta et al. 2024, 9).

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Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 116

Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

The Process: AI-Assisted Assignment Stress Testing After experimenting with systems like Claude and ChatGPT, I’ve discovered they can effectively analyze and refine writing prompts through the creation of simulated student responses. The AI analysis revealed several blind spots in my prompt design.

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Assignments Testing Course Design Writing 66

Teach Your Kids

MAY 6, 2025

Money = food (basic needs) Money = freedom (higher needs) Having been part of the homeschooling/unschooling world for nearly 10 years now, I’ve heard far too many stories of unschoolers who get to be 18 and still can’t read or write. But guess what? So they are motivated to learn. You can communicate and get the support you need.

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Reading Writing Languages Language 96

Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

To emphasize, research indicates that curriculum designers and university stakeholders need to provide best-practice examples of how to utilize AI tools to effectively and positively promote the use of AI for students advantage (Deroncle-Acosta et al. 2024, 9).

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Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 97

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.

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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 62

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.

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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Project-Based Learning: Allow students to select their own research topics related to curriculum goals. Humorous Recaps: Encourage students to write summary poems, memes, or comic strips about what they learned. Students learned narrative structure, summarization, and persuasive writing, all while having fun editing music and visuals.

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Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

But equally important is the less visible curriculum: the transmission of norms, values, customs, and shared identity. In many online schools, the curriculum takes precedence over context. Rethinking Curriculum: From Global to Glocal One of the most powerful levers of cultural identity in K12 online education is the curriculum.

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Culture Schools Languages Language 52

The Applicious Teacher

JUNE 18, 2024

There is no cost to you, but this extra coinage allows me to continue creating free resources and writing awesome content for you! I have two kids, a curriculum design business, and a full-time career. Things like writing, drawing, crafting, or playing a musical instrument. Travel and Explore: Near and Far!

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Art Reading Writing Activities 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2022

This impact is consistent with the average student using the Amplify Science curriculum moving up 14 percentiles compared to their peers who used other materials. More than 80 percent of teachers agreed that they and their students benefited from using Amplify Science curriculum. About Amplify.

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Study Science Middle School Middle School 263

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2022

Teachers Want Solutions “Before the pandemic, one of EdTech founders’ greatest challenges was engaging teachers with digital tools,” said Thiago Rached, founder of Brazilian writing-improvement tool Letrus, at the LATAM EdTech Show. This also cropped up in our interviews with Chinese teachers in early 2020 about the shift to remote learning.

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Technology Teachers Quizzes Textbooks 189

eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2025

Implementation ideas Curriculum design: Instead of generic prompts like “create a lesson plan on photosynthesis,” a high-impact prompt would be: “Design a 40-minute 6th grade lesson plan on photosynthesis, including a hands-on activity, vocabulary support for ELL students, and one formative assessment question.”

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Ethics Teachers Essay Feedback 277