“Curriculum should lay out the most effective ways of achieving specific results. It is analogous to travel planning. Our frameworks should provide a set of itineraries deliberately designed to meet cultural goals, rather than a purposeless tour of all the major sites in a foreign country. In short, the best designs derive backward from the learnings sought.
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Teaching is a collective journey, an expedition travelled with teacher as guide to lead students through the landscape of learning. As with any journey, much preparation must be done to determine best routes, materials and milestones to hit along the way. Below we’ve outlined some tips on how to prepare for your journey of teaching starting with how to mental and emotionally orient yourself in order to then build curriculum and lesson plans rooted in your own personal values and visions.
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How to Start?
How to Start On starting. Starting with something new or changing a way you have been doing something is hard and often, we are confronted with the question: Where to…
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Curriculum as Journey as Story as House
Hold up, what’s a curriculum, except for literature and learning goals? There are many different strategies and approaches for building a curriculum or lesson plan. Traditionally a curriculum or lesson…
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Engaging Language & Accessibility for your STEM Syllabus
Language and accessibility are important to consider when creating your syllabus “A syllabus should frame the sort of encounters that you would like to have happen in the class. The…
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New Paradigms for STEM Lesson Planning
When we think about creating engaging STEM lesson plans for diverse learners we explore paradigms outside the traditional realms of ‘science’ Engaging STEM means… Understanding the social context of ourselves,…
