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Grossman, Pam; Herrmann, Zachary; Kavanagh, Sarah Schneider; Dean, Christopher G. Pupik – Harvard Education Press, 2021
"Core Practices for Project-Based Learning" offers a framework and essential set of strategies for successfully implementing project-based learning (PBL) in the classroom. Centering on teaching practice, this work moves beyond project planning to focus on the complex instructional demands of the student-centered PBL approach. Pam…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Educational Strategies, Program Implementation
Stern, Julie; Ferraro, Krista; Duncan, Kayla; Aleo, Trevor – Corwin, 2021
How do you prepare your students for a future that you can't see? And how do you do it without exhausting yourself? Teachers need a framework that allows them to keep pace with our rapidly changing world without having to overhaul everything they do. "Learning That Transfers" empowers teachers and curriculum designers alike to harness…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Design, Case Studies
Potsi, Autoanneta – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016
This book explores the Capability Approach (CA) as an alternative critical lens through which to regard early childhood education (ECE) curricula. The CA framework is a counter narrative to the narrow instrumentalism that reduces education to a mere process of academic skills acquisition for a future workplace. Primarily the book draws on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Ability, Curriculum Design
Skoglund, Frederic W.; Ness, Judy – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
This book is about moving from the conceptual to practical applications that impact the day-to-day teaching and learning processes. Skoglund and Ness give school leaders all the tools that are necessary to change the culture of a school, improve teacher performance, and elevate student achievement. Each component of the process is clearly…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Learning Processes, Educational Objectives
McTighe, Jay; Wiggins, Grant – ASCD, 2011
Whether you are an experienced curriculum designer or new to Understanding by Design[R] (UbD), you will benefit from the latest design tools and the updated UbD unit Template 2.0. UbD authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe share their insights and the practical tips that have helped thousands of educators design curriculum based on the UbD…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Curriculum Design, Instructional Design, Units of Study
Keup, Jennifer R.; Petschauer, Joni Webb – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2011
"The First-Year Seminar: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing Courses to Support Student Learning and Success," a five-volume series, is designed to assist educators who are interested in launching a first-year seminar or revamping an existing program. Each volume examines a different aspect of first-year seminar design or administration and…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, First Year Seminars, Curriculum Design, Program Implementation
Crawford, Joe – Corwin, 2011
Now that most states have adopted the new Common Core State Standards, the next major challenge is to simplify and implement them by 2014. That is why it is important to begin this work now. Joe Crawford, Milken Award-winning educator and author of "Using Power Standards to Build an Aligned Curriculum", shares his proven process for…
Descriptors: State Standards, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Alignment (Education)
Nicholls, Audrey; Nicholls, S. Howard – 1972
The term curriculum development is a fairly new one in the educational language, though it is being used with increasing frequency. The purpose of this book is to explain what is meant by curriculum development and what is involved in curriculum planning. It outlines the relationship among the various elements in the curriculum and explains the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Objectives
Gress, James R., Ed.; Purpel, David E. – 1978
This book defines curriculum; delineates parameters of its inquiry and practice; identifies its principal problems and issues; describes, to some extent, its evolution and the state of its current art; and identifies some of its contributions to professional education in general. The discussion and selected readings are organized around seven sets…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
Walker, Decker F.; Soltis, Jonas F. – 1986
This book provides a broad perspective on the basic curriculum questions educators face in the schools regarding the purposes, content, design, and structure of educational programs. In discussing basic issues of curriculum theory, some questions are raised: (1) How have people structured educational programs and instruction in an attempt to serve…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
Robinson, Floyd G.; And Others – 1985
This book, working from an educator-defined set of curriculum tasks and their allotted time frames, provides a mechanism for linking instructional theory with classroom practices. Chapter titles are: (1) The Tasks of Curriculum Development; (2) Developing Major Goal Statements; (3) Assembling a Psychological Model for the Dominant Educable…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
Raphel, Annette – 2000
This book explores what constitutes good and meaningful math homework, what the purposes of math homework are, and how teachers and school administrators create a culture in which math homework assignments are more inventive and meaningful. Many examples of math homework assignments in this book show how homework can reinforce skills, prepare…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Grade 4
Solomon, Joan, Ed.; Aikenhead, Glen, Ed. – 1994
This book is a collection of essays about science-technology-society (STS) education for school science that examines new challenges and new questions in the domain of STS education. The book does not employ a purely academic approach found in science studies, yet almost every chapter shows some reflection on the historical, philosophical, or…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Research
Erickson, H. Lynn – 1995
This book examines the current trends in K-12 curriculum and instruction. It shows how the trends interrelate and provides a higher order, comprehensive model for curriculum reform. The model is based on critical, content-based concepts. Chapter 1 describes the complexity of the change process and illustrates dilemmas encountered in school-based…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Ozar, Lorraine A. – 1994
This book offers an approach to curriculum decision making aimed at helping Catholic schools become or remain values-based, learning-centered communities for the 21st century. The outcomes-based approach argues that educators have three primary responsibilities--identify what is the significant learning, design valid ways for students to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools, Competence
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