Course Instructional Materials Professional Learning 
Edsurge
APRIL 15, 2024
High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences.
Doug Levin
MAY 12, 2015
I also tend to think that educators make rational responses in selecting instructional materials and tools (including using social media) – and certainly in the U.S. K-12 context, individual teacher’s choices about instructional materials are constrained by district and state policy anyway.
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eSchool News
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Of course, not all teachers have the time to design their own units and may need a variety of resources to help them bring STEM to their elementary classrooms. Just as effective teachers meet students where they are, the most helpful schools provide teachers the inspiration or guidance they need through professional learning opportunities.
The CoolCatTeacher
JULY 20, 2017
Books, Videos, Courses, and Conferences. Teachers can find books, videos and courses to help them on an issue. An emerging professional development “economy” of competency based micro credentials has teachers taking a new type of course.
edWeb.net
APRIL 2, 2025
Support for both students AND teachers is vital when developing comprehensive math instruction systems. They learn that finding evidence and using reasoning to make claims are skills that carry over into the real world. Algebra must be accessible to all students; however, not all schools have certified eighth-grade algebra teachers.
Edsurge
MAY 27, 2020
Also underpinning these various scenarios is the critical need for professional learning and development over the summer. What has taken place during the last two-and-a-half months, the authors contend, is “crisis distance learning,” brought on by near-ubiquitous restrictions on movement and stay-at-home orders since March.
Edsurge
JULY 5, 2019
This responsibility goes far beyond ensuring factual accuracy; it extends to creating culturally-responsive curriculum that not only integrates the experiences of diverse cultures and historically underrepresented groups, but also actively engages cultural learning styles and scaffolds students toward freedom of thought and independence.
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