Teaching and learning a more impactful and significant curriculum would mean changes in priorities and the techniques needed to meet them.
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28. Building a Meaningful Subject Area Mastery Statement
The heart of the new learning infrastructure is a curriculum designed to be substantive in terms of student mastery.
27. Expanded Thinking and Beliefs
Mary and Barbara are smart, insightful, well- prepared formally or informally, and female role-breakers. They are risk takers and appropriately ambitious. They are filled with vision and resolve.
26. Transformation Requires Leaving a Comfort Zone and Exploring the Unknown
Everything in human learning depends on communication. Science and math are no exception. Numbers, symbols, problem solving equations, research strategies, construction, and virtually everything else depends on being able to understand others through language.
25. Transformation: Who Teachers Become as Much as What They Do
Better able to engage with teachers much older and more experienced. Who, because of the process, were also being transformed.
10. Teacher Accountability as a Function of Academic Conviction, Depth and Purpose
The most challenging part is becoming more professionally assertive than I believed possible. To overcome my feelings of inadequacy and vulnerability in the face of change.
9. Curricular Precison: Tools and Skills in the New Learning Infrastructure
The unit outcome provides an overview of the complete intention for student learning. It connects all elements in ways that show they are contiguous and mutually necessary.
7. Words and Wordsmithing: Tools and Skills in the New Learning Infrastructure
Our professors had each one of us present and defend our course mastery statement. In several ways. Student readiness. Alignment with both the general and subject area mastery statements. Logical spiraling considerations with other grade levels. Scope in the context of time allotments and instructional configurations.
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