Several online
social studies curriculum reform efforts were reviewed, along with human - centered interface design, and ECM investigations that directly informed our work.
Not exact matches
After two years working in Portland, I found my way to Bay Area, California where I taught 9th grade
social studies for 3 years while I supported faculty in developing their capacity to hold space for critical conversations around diversity, inclusion, and equity, as well as supporting
social justice
curriculum reform within the network.
Whereas
social scientists have bent themselves out of shape
studying the effects of, say, test - based accountability, charter schools, and other «structural»
reforms — and have produced some reasonably solid findings about what works for whom under what circumstances —
curriculum is relatively little
studied and what's learned almost never makes the New York Times (or even Education Week).
Recent
studies have shown that merely adding technology to one's curriculumis not enough to bring about instructional
reform in
social studies education.There is a need for «thoughtful
curriculum development, and careful instructionaldesign based on the thorough and on - going explication of assumptions aboutsociety, learners and learning, as these are critical to the productive useof technology as to any other teaching mode» (Shaver, 1999, p. 27).