The review process includes: double - blind scoring by expert, calibrated LDC Reviewers using the research - validated SCALE / LDC Curriculum Alignment Rubric; constructive feedback and suggested revisions
on curricular units; and individual and group pattern analyses.
Not exact matches
Rather than today's system, which focuses
on «input regulations» such as textbook mandates; seat time rules; cumbersome, outdated certification requirements; and professional development
units, public officials should place greater emphasis
on vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations,
curricular quality, and meaningful accountability.
Three projects are included for Key Stage 1 including a mural project based
on the artist Tony Cragg, A painting
unit that uses the Japanese artist Takahashi Murakami and a cross
curricular craft project
on birds of paradise.
For a good geography
unit on Scandinavia click here to teach excellent cross
curricular links.
The transformation of a 300 - student middle school from a traditional lessons and
units curricular approach to a true schoolwide PBL pedagogy is not an easy process, and it required us to work
on several interrelated fronts.
Music and Cross
Curricular Unit of Work
on a Winter Theme - relates to Winter Soundscape Resource
«Instead of allowing students to simply surf
on topics — with all the problems that can entail — the teacher creates a WebQuest around a
curricular unit or topic, and students use it to construct their own knowledge,» added Livingston.
My 6th grade students will be working
on a cross
curricular Pi activity with Humanities (just finished a
unit on Greek mythology) where the students will be writing myths
on the origin, creation, or the original use of Pi.
Curricular units focus
on developing the following skills:
Researchers and teacher consultants developed 10 to 12 weeks of lessons and instructional materials based
on the district
curricular units and learning objectives.
These
Curricular Resources include instructional guidebooks with
unit plans for English and math and recommendations for other published curricula based
on how well they align with Common Core.