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Authentic Education Team
Supporting exploration and knowledge building rather than rushing to adopt a new curriculum is leading to better results for students.
Materials, resources, tools & training providing effective, research-based instruction to develop all aspects of literacy for many kinds of students.
Let’s dive deeper into how to look critically at our curriculum in order to cultivate a more flexible, thoughtful and inclusive approach to teaching reading.
Unpacking world language standards into what we want our students to KNOW (knowledge) and be able to DO (skills) narrows our focus.
A primary goal of UbD is to make meaning of learning by way of “big ideas” and to transfer learning and this can be applied to all subject areas.
Before I started planning math units using the Understanding by Design framework, I frequently found myself […]
The post below is a greatly revised version of a 2-year-old post. I thought it worth […]
In my 100th blog post I complained about the course called ‘algebra’. Some commenters misunderstood the complaint. Though […]
How teachers plan – This is one of the more interesting ‘black boxes’ in education. There […]
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