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McREL International, 2023
Research on effective teaching and learning confirms that thoughtfully designed unit plans and lesson plans can help all students learn more deeply, especially when teachers shift how they think about and approach their lesson planning, moving away from a teacher-centric perspective and toward a student-centric one. A teacher-centric perspective…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Units of Study
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Kristen M. Ford; Julie M. Knutson – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
THE FUSED health education series was developed as a one-stop guide for developing a quality curriculum for teaching health education. This first, two-part article introduces a new approach to teaching health education called THE FUSED Technique. THE stands for Teaching Health Education and FUSED stands for Functional (data driven) information,…
Descriptors: Health Education, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, Skill Development
Westerberg, Tim – Educational Leadership, 2021
Despite the best of intentions on the part of overworked and undertrained classroom teachers, instructional planning can too often be described as idiosyncratic, haphazard, and lacking any logically or pedagogically defensible structure. In this article, Tim Westerberg highlights the importance of a unifying planning framework that ensures…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Units of Study, Standards, Alignment (Education)
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Sato, Yutaka; Tusda, Emi; Honda, Sotaro; Yoshino, Satoshi – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2021
The purpose of this article is to introduce the unit-structured diagram and a professional development workshop using the diagram. The diagram consists of three areas, including objectives, content, and assessment. The objectives section is an area to identify learning outcomes based on physical education national standards. In the section of…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Physical Education, Units of Study, Faculty Development
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Watkins, Brittany; Hubbard, Janie – Social Studies, 2023
Human dignity is a complex, though essential, concept for students to master. Inserting human dignity into existing curricula provides students with more opportunities to consider the problems of vulnerable classmates and the status of human dignity and rights in the United States and around the world. Using parts of the US modern Civil Rights…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Social Studies, Lesson Plans, Units of Study
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Sokolowski, Andrzej – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2020
Like terms are usually defined for variables with numerical coefficients. While the definition is sufficient to combine polynomial terms, it does not help the students to combine radical, logarithmic, or trigonometric terms. The purpose of this paper is to propose a lesson that introduces a broader definition of like terms and trialed with a group…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Advanced Students
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Davidson, Aylie – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2019
Aylie Davidson introduces a model for collaborative teacher planning that arose from the work she did with teachers as part of her PhD research. She identifies five ingredients for planning mathematical learning sequences that when used in combination with the model, enhance the quality and rigour of teachers' mathematics planning and subsequent…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Lesson Plans, Units of Study
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Ying-Chih Chen; Michelle Jordan – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2024
Student Uncertainty as Pedagogical Resource (SUPeR) is a teaching approach that science teachers can use to promote student scientific literacy, practice, and learning. SUPeR helps students navigate scientific uncertainty to improve understanding of scientific concepts and phenomena. The SUPeR approach consists of four phases: (1) problematize a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Lesson Plans, Scientific Literacy, Teaching Methods
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Like, Christopher; Morgan, Jeffrey; Escalada, Lawrence; Burns, Les – Physics Teacher, 2019
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) require teachers to think very carefully about the structure of lessons, which content must be taught to allow students to achieve NGSS expectations, and how content is delivered. With the standards' focus on three-dimensional learning and the use of relevant phenomena, most teachers are urged to make…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Units of Study, Standards
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Misco, Thomas; Stahlsmith, Megan – Social Studies, 2020
This article explores the ways in which social studies classrooms can explore the history and status of U.S. territories as "unincorporated." We focus on the "Insular Cases" and in particular "Downes v. Bidwell" (1901), examine the construct of colonies as anathema to democracy, and explore the precedents court case…
Descriptors: Social Studies, History Instruction, Foreign Policy, Court Litigation
Pylman, Stacey – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
A great deal of teacher planning involves an invisible process of envisioning how plans might unfold in the classroom. Novice teachers can benefit from seeing how experienced teachers work through this process, but, too often, co-planning sessions between mentors and novices focus on selecting activities to fill out a lesson, rather than delving…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Mentors
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Mohamud, Abdul; Whitburn, Robin – Teaching History, 2020
Many history departments choose to begin their Year 7 curriculum with an introduction to the nature of history and the processes in which historians engage as they develop, refine and substantiate claims about the past. In this article, Adbul Mohamud and Robin Whitburn report on an such an introductory unit, designed with a specific focus on the…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Christianity, Islam, African Culture
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Fowler, Kelsie; Noel, Saraswati – Science Teacher, 2022
Instead of having their students' first experience with biology that did not address issues of racism in science, Kelsie Fowler and Saraswati Noel created a unit drew on storytelling and artistic expression which is rare in science education, where these modes helped them center what really mattered to them--their Black students' personal…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Genetics, Physical Characteristics
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Haney, Casey Lynn; Bartholomew, Scott; Hauck, Morgan; Price, Alexandria – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2019
While some promising efforts have recently been made to connect farmers with new practices of water conservation and assist in the optimization and use of resources, these efforts have not eliminated the need for additional research and sustainable practices in farming. This is especially true for crops such as rice that rely heavily on large…
Descriptors: Water, Agricultural Occupations, Sustainability, Lesson Plans
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McTighe, Jay; Brown, Patrick – Science and Children, 2020
As well-developed as they may be, standards are not curriculum. It is the job of teachers and curriculum teams to use the Standards as the basis for designing the specific pathway for teaching and learning. In this article, the authors explore the use of Understanding by Design (UbD), a widely-used curriculum development framework, for honoring…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Standards, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Design
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