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Personalizing within the Curriculum: High Quality Instructional Materials as a Lever for Student-Centered Learning

Education Elements

Over the last 10 years, we have seen a significant shift in how educators access and leverage instructional materials to guide instruction. As many states adopted new, more rigorous standards, curriculum providers rushed to create materials that would prepare students for college and career and state assessments.

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NewseumED’s Foolproof Guide to Media Literacy

Catlin Tucker

These lessons are cross-curricular, standards-aligned, and includes video instruction, instructions, materials, downloadable resources, discussion questions. I appreciate how easy NewseumED makes it to teach students to think critically about the media.

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Vet What You Buy

A Principal's Reflections

I also see plenty of investments in materials from Teachers Pay Teachers. I am all for teachers selling lesson plans, assessments, support materials, and other resources to their peers. Judgments can be self-assessments by students, or judgments can be made by others, such as faculty, other students, or field-work supervisors.

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Helping science-averse teachers integrate STEM and literacy

eSchool News

An active advocate of the Next Generation Science Standards, (NGSS), she eventually became Vermont’s Science Assessment Supervisor and has served as an NGSS curriculum reviewer and president of the board of the NSFs Society of Elementary Presidential Awardees. She also has every student write in a science notebook.

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How to Crowdsource Quality Resources for Adult Learners

Digital Promise

The four key factors: Use a real-world instructional design challenge. First, the authentic design opportunity to develop instructional materials for adult learners motivated many to participate in the MOOC. Why has this crowdsourcing design project been successful? Create a clear design guide.

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Should Educators Put Disclosures on Teaching Materials When They Use AI?

Edsurge

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. “I

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Seven Steps to Ensure English Learners Aren’t Left Out of STEM

Edsurge

If those are the high-paying jobs, then we’re also segregating English learners into lower levels of the economy, and that’s not desirable either,” added Francis, who presented the findings of the report at an event this week in Washington, D.C. How might state assessments be unfairly disadvantaging English learners?

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