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Tag Archives: Curriculum Organization
Keeping Track of Student Learning in Customized Learning – Part 1
One of the reasons you put so much care into how you organize and articulate the student curriculum in Customized Learning, is because instead of tracking which courses a student has taken, schools track which learning targets and measurement topics … Continue reading
Life-Long Habits of Mind: Curriculum for Customized Learning
Districts in the Customized Learning Consortium have expanded their curriculum model beyond simply content knowledge. Lesson planning and unit development happens at the intersection of Content Knowledge, Complex Reasoning, and Life-Long Habits of Mind. Life-Long Habits of Mind is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bea McGarvey, Curriculum Organization, Life-Long Habits of Mind
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Complex Reasoning: Curriculum for Customized Learning
The second domain of curriculum for Customized Learning is complex reasoning. Lesson planning and unit development happens at the intersection of content knowledge, complex reasoning, and life-long habits of mind. We want learners to be – doing these reasoning processes … Continue reading
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Tagged Bea McGarvey, Complex Reasoning, Curriculum Organization
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Content Knowledge & Curriculum Organization for Customized Learning
The first of the three domains of our Customized Learning curriculum model isn't very sexy, nor interesting, and is what most folks already think of when you say “curriculum”: Content Knowledge. (But there is some interesting stuff a little further … Continue reading
Curriculum and Customized Learning
We are one of the 29 districts who make up the Maine Cohort for Customized Learning. Together, we are on a journey to implement Customized Learning. Further, Maine statute now requires that, by 2017, students in Maine will graduate based … Continue reading
Is the Common Core a Good Thing?
Bill Ivey at the Stoneleigh-Burnham School in western Massachusetts started a conversation on AMLE’s MiddleTalk Listserve about the Common Core: I suddenly realize, Common Core would be pulling the country away from the direction I would love to see education … Continue reading
Apple’s “Textbooks” Potential: Curriculum Creation for Customized Learning
Apple’s announcement about selling interactive textbooks, iBooks Author for creating interactive textbooks, the iTunes U app for iPad, and opening iTunes U to K-12 prompted me to blog about my reaction to textbooks in general, how Apple’s tools might be … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Bea McGarvey, Curriculum Organization, School Change, Textbooks
Cross Industry Borrowing, Scouting, and Organizing the Curriculum
Yesterday, I wrote about how Cross Industry Borrowing might help us think about how we should organize the curriculum for Customized Learning. When I think about one group that does an exceptional job organizing curriculum and operating from values similar … Continue reading
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Tagged Bea McGarvey, Curriculum Organization, School Change
Customized Learning, Curriculum, & Cross Industry Borrowing
Since Customized Learning starts with the premise that how we design our educational systems needs to reflect the facts that people learn in different ways and in different timeframes, educators often get frustrated quickly with trying to figure out what … Continue reading
Posted in Customized Learning
Tagged Bea McGarvey, Cross Industry Borrowing, Curriculum Organization, School Change
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