Quality Curriculum
Quality curriculum is geared toward understanding and the ability to transfer and use the knowledge. It is engaging students, giving students power, and helping students see the importance of the information. Facts are useless unless students really get the information and can retain them. Quality curriculum gives students facts, but instead of relying on memorization, it helps students see the relevance of the information or connects the information to the students' lives (Tomlinson). Quality curriculum helps students make sense of what they are learning.
Jay McTighe says the best learning occurs when we focus our teaching around important ideas worth understanding. Much of that occurs in the video above, except the Bad Teacher scenes, of course. Quality curriculum is proactively planned and respectful of all students. McTighe also says that when planning we should always keep the "end" in mind, with the "end" being understanding. When we focus on the important ideas and the students really get it, it makes the students much more capable of not only understanding, but transferring that knowledge. It allows students to become much more active in the classroom and detracts students from becoming/remaining passive.
Quality curriculum is geared toward understanding and the ability to transfer and use the knowledge. It is engaging students, giving students power, and helping students see the importance of the information. Facts are useless unless students really get the information and can retain them. Quality curriculum gives students facts, but instead of relying on memorization, it helps students see the relevance of the information or connects the information to the students' lives (Tomlinson). Quality curriculum helps students make sense of what they are learning.
Jay McTighe says the best learning occurs when we focus our teaching around important ideas worth understanding. Much of that occurs in the video above, except the Bad Teacher scenes, of course. Quality curriculum is proactively planned and respectful of all students. McTighe also says that when planning we should always keep the "end" in mind, with the "end" being understanding. When we focus on the important ideas and the students really get it, it makes the students much more capable of not only understanding, but transferring that knowledge. It allows students to become much more active in the classroom and detracts students from becoming/remaining passive.
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