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Gina Johnson; Annika Many; Jenny Parks; Liliana Diaz Solodukhin – Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2024
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, or research resources that are offered freely to users in at least one form and that either reside in the public domain or have been released under an open copyright license that allows for its free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with attribution. Course marking (also called…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Curriculum Development, Course Evaluation, Cost Effectiveness
Short, James B.; Hirsh, Stephanie – Corwin, 2022
Even the most experienced teachers provided with the highest quality instructional materials benefit from additional support to ensure student success. Simply adopting new instructional materials is unlikely to significantly change teacher practice. Ensuring a level of excellence that benefits all students calls for an approach to professional…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Faculty Development, Instructional Materials, Curriculum
Hoadley, Ursula – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2020
As South Africa transitioned from apartheid to democracy, changes in the political landscape, as well as educational agendas and discourse on both a national and international level, shaped successive waves of curriculum reform over a relatively short period of time. Using South Africa as a germane example of how curriculum and pedagogy can…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Poverty
Council of the Great City Schools, 2017
In the ongoing effort to improve instructional standards in our nation's urban public schools, the Council of the Great City Schools has released resources to help districts determine the quality and alignment of instructional materials at each grade level; to ensure that materials for English language learners are rigorous and aligned to district…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Urban Schools, Public Schools
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Christine Drew; Julie Hill; Kevin White – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities have the right to access appropriate and comprehensive sexuality and relationship education (SRE), but face a long history of exclusion from SRE in the USA due to myths about the sexuality of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, biases against people with disabilities, and…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Sex Education, LGBTQ People
Portilla, Ximena A.; Lamb, Michael; Brown, Kevin Thaddeus, Jr. – MDRC, 2021
This practitioner brief is one in a series highlighting concrete ways that education leaders can increase educational equity by building supportive learning environments that meet all students' social and emotional needs. The introductory brief to this series suggests that changes at three levels of the education system are needed to promote…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Change, Equal Education, Social Emotional Learning
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Henderson, Peter; Hodgen, Jeremy; Foster, Colin; Kuchemann, Dietmar – Education Endowment Foundation, 2022
This guidance report focuses on improving the quality of teaching of mathematics to pupils in Key Stages 2 and 3. The decision to focus on these Key Stages was made after an initial consultation period with teachers, academics, and other stakeholders. Schools are seeking advice on adjusting to a new curriculum, and there is also concern about…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Improvement, Mathematics Education, Curriculum Development
Jackson, Sheila; Mawhinney, Joanna – Jobs for the Future, 2021
"Three Big Lessons in Six Years" is both a reflection on the past and a look ahead to the future at Charlestown (C-Town) High School (Boston, Massachusetts) and other early college programs across the country. The purpose of this series is to document essential design elements, operational structures, and critical support for students to…
Descriptors: High Schools, High School Students, Dual Enrollment, College Programs
Peden, Wilson; Reed, Sally; Wolfe, Kathy – Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2017
"Rising to the LEAP Challenge" provides a series of case studies that reflect the "real-world" application of students' cumulative learning through signature work projects, as put forth in AAC&U's [Association of American Colleges and Universities'] The LEAP Challenge. Such projects focus on complex questions that are…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Colleges, Student Projects
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Agustian, Hendra Y. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2022
This article seeks to provide researchers and practitioners in laboratory education, particularly those involved in the curriculum design and implementation of teaching laboratories at university level, with a conceptual framework and a working model for an integrated assessment of learning domains, by attending to a more holistic approach to…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Laboratory Experiments, Curriculum Design
Education Scotland, 2022
This Advice provides important information on the national context and describes best practice to support senior leaders, practitioners, and education authorities in evaluating and planning for improvement in Gaelic Education. It is based on evidence from inspections, reviews and validated self-evaluation, covering all sectors of Gaelic Education…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries, Legislation, Public Policy
WestEd, 2014
Consider that colorful photographs, eye-catching illustrations, and captivating images intended to make textbooks more appealing may actually distract students from the lesson at hand. Or that asking students to simply solve math problems might not be as effective as having them explain the steps of solutions that are already worked out--even some…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Mathematics Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Middle Schools
Piccardo, Enrica; North, Brian – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This book presents the background to the current shift in language education towards action-oriented/action-based teaching, and provides a theorization of the Action-oriented Approach (AoA). It discusses the concepts and theories that paved the way for the AoA and explores their relevance for the way language education is conceived and implemented…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development
Nieto, Sonia; López, Alicia – Teachers College Press, 2019
A must read for new teachers and seasoned practitioners, this unique book presents Sonia Nieto and Alicia López, mother and daughter writing about the trajectories, vision, and values that brought them to teaching, including the ups and downs they have experienced and the reasons why they have stubbornly remained in one of the oldest, most…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Center on Education Policy, 2015
In the spring and fall of 2013, the Center on Education Policy (CEP) convened two meetings of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss ideas for a more relevant and coordinated research agenda on the Common Core State Standards. Participants in these meetings identified several needs and made a number of thoughtful suggestions. Many…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Academic Standards, State Standards, Elementary Secondary Education
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