Curriculum Planning
Looking for ways to develop dynamic, compelling, and standards-based course content and activities? This is the place to start.
How to Incorporate Student Feedback to Improve SEL
Meaningful input and active engagement from high school students can transform a school’s approach to social and emotional learning.264Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Approaching Experiential Learning as a Continuum
Teachers can consider 12 characteristics of experiential learning to make lessons more or less active for students.232Your content has been saved!
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Why Learning at Home Should Be More Self-Directed—and Less Structured
On March 18, 2020, Simone Kern tweeted that simply “recreating schools at home” passes up a golden opportunity to engage kids in authentic, self-directed learning.31.6kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Using a Learning Map to Build Exemplary PBL Units
By developing—and revisiting—an instructional roadmap that connects standards, activities, and skill development, these teachers put students on a path toward mastery.Bringing Social Studies to Life With Data
Middle school teachers can guide students to analyze real-world data to gain a deep understanding of course content.196Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Intentionally Slowing Down to Ensure That Students Learn Material Deeply
Teachers who are tempted to race through the curriculum to cover everything may want to reconsider and slow down a bit so that students can learn the most important content better.
6 Techniques for Building Reading Skills—in Any Subject
Students need good reading skills not just in English but in all classes. Here are some ways you can help them develop those skills.37.2kYour content has been saved!
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What’s the Right Amount of Homework?
Decades of research show that homework has some benefits, especially for students in middle and high school—but there are risks to assigning too much.29.3kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.60-Second Strategy: Framing the Lesson
When teachers make their teaching and learning goals clear to their class, every activity has a purpose and every student understands what they’re doing.
5 Highly Effective Teaching Practices
We teachers are always looking to innovate, so, yes, it's essential that we try new things to add to our pedagogical bag of tricks. But it's important to focus on purpose and intentionality -- and not on quantity. So what really matters more than "always trying something new" is the reason behind why we do what we do.29.1kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How to Plan When You Don’t Know What to Plan For
What school will look like in the fall is still uncertain for most of the U.S., but teachers can develop flexible plans that work for distance and in-class teaching.12.1kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Designing Science Inquiry: Claim + Evidence + Reasoning = Explanation
The Claim, Evidence, Reasoning framework is a scaffolded way to teach the scientific method.30.4kYour content has been saved!
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What Is Your Educational Philosophy?
While lesson planning this summer, educators might also take time to reflect on their core beliefs about learning and teaching.22.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Keeping Students Engaged During Long Class Periods
By chunking class time using gradual release of responsibility, teachers can vary their teaching strategies to help students maintain focus.7 Projects Teachers Stand By
Planning for projects can be difficult and time-consuming. This list of teacher-tested projects—complete with printable resources—should offer a big head start.
