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Harris, Richard – Teaching History, 2021
Richard Harris draws on their own and others' research to take stock of where the history teaching community is in terms of curriculum thinking. Harris argues that despite a number of positive developments in recent years, certain issues continue to have undesirable effects on curriculum design. Such issues include inertia and unclear rationales…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Design, Course Content
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Ciuffoletti, Augusto – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2021
Contribution: A technical course in a multidisciplinary university program has to provide high-level skills, with limited lecturing hours and student background. This article investigates the principles for its design and reports about a study case. Background: The overall course organization needs to address specific learning targets and teaching…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Course Organization, Computer Networks, Course Evaluation
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McPhail, Graham – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
The primary objective of this paper is to present a curriculum design model that extends the 'Powerful Knowledge' ideas of social realist theory. The Model called 'Curriculum Design Coherence' (CDC) hypothesizes an approach in which subject concepts and the subject's epistemic structure are central to the design process to enable deep learning.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Models, Epistemology, Realism
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Jin, Dongxue; Liu, Enshan – American Biology Teacher, 2021
Crosscutting concepts (CCCs) are superordinate in the scientific concept system, common across disciplines, and very abstract. These characteristics, with the addition of incoherence in their curricular presentation, can challenge instructors. We designed a modular course based on coherence and conceptual understanding. The course structure was…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, High School Students
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Hirsh, Stephanie; Ben-Isvy, Jonathan – Learning Professional, 2021
Chicago Public Schools made it a priority to make high-quality, grade-level instructional materials available to all teachers and students and provide effective curriculum-based professional learning to support successful implementation. During the early planning phase, several Chicago district leaders came across "The Elements: Transforming…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Instructional Materials, Curriculum Implementation, Educational Change
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Menon, Sharanya; Green, Crystal; Charbonneau, Irène; Lehtomäki, Elina; Mafi, Boby – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
In this paper, we as the teachers and researchers of a course titled Global education development informed by theories of decoloniality, report on our analysis of our self-critical and constructive dialogue on the course design, its underlying assumptions, expectations, implementation, success and needs for improvement. We centered decoloniality…
Descriptors: Global Education, Educational Development, Curriculum Design, Social Justice
Achieving the Dream, 2021
Achieving the Dream (ATD) is one of 12 higher education and digital learning organizations that make up the Every Learner Everywhere (Every Learner) Network, whose mission is to help higher education institutions improve and ensure more equitable student outcomes through advances in digital learning, particularly among poverty-impacted, racially…
Descriptors: Courseware, Introductory Courses, College Mathematics, Community Colleges
Melissa Shaye Webb – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The mission of high school career and technical education (CTE) programs is to prepare high school graduates for a career. This study provides insight into the educational practices that support students with the skills necessary for workplace success, as not all CTE program graduates are prepared for the workplace with industry-ready skills. The…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Vocational Education, Skill Development, Job Skills
Joshua P. Rayburn – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This capstone is an exploration of an online learning environment for teachers to receive professional learning at any time, anywhere. The focus of this capstone was to design a series of self-paced, asynchronous learning courses to help teachers implement one-to-one Chromebooks in the Fayette County Public School District. Additionally, the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Faculty Development, Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication
Madhav Kaushish – ProQuest LLC, 2021
If we want mathematics education to be valuable to everybody, including those who do not pursue mathematics-related careers, we need to use mathematics as a training ground for certain ways of thinking. This dissertation focuses on one aspect of mathematical thinking, namely theory building. It has three parts -- unpacking what constitutes theory…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Geometry, Mathematics Education, Curriculum Design
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Shin, Jaran; Rubio, Jesse W. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
This case study examines how an experienced secondary ESL teacher's personal and professional history is linked to his curricular choices in the classroom and how his enactment of critical educator identity interacts with ideologies within society. The analysis of the focal teacher's experiences that remain prominent in autobiographical memory…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Teacher Background, Secondary School Teachers
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Qian, Yingxiao; Choi, Ikseon – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
Echoing the increasing emphasis on STEM literacy, computational thinking has become a national priority in K-12 schools. Scholars have acknowledged abstraction as the keystone of computational thinking. To foster K-12 students' computational thinking and STEM literacy, students' ability to think abstractly should be enhanced. However, the existing…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Computation, Thinking Skills, Abstract Reasoning
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Park, Wonyong; Erduran, Sibel; Song, Jinwoong; Kim, Minchul – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
While many recent curriculum reforms recognise the value of history of science (HOS) in science teaching, in-depth investigations into teachers' experiences of planning HOS-based science lessons have been rare. We present a case study of two groups of preservice science teachers (PSTs) who collaboratively planned high school science lessons using…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Instruction, Science History
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Zolkwer, Morgan B.; Hidalgo, Rafael; Singer, Bryan F. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2023
There is Individual variation in how people interact with videos presented in online distance education. Educational videos can be embedded with interactive content to increase engagement and make cognition more efficient. Accordingly, we predicted that embedding questions during videos (rather than after) would enhance the performance of…
Descriptors: Film Production, Instructional Films, Video Technology, Questioning Techniques
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Mixter, Philip F.; Kleinschmit, Adam J.; Lal, Archana; Vanniasinkam, Thiru; Condry, Danielle L. J.; Taylor, Rebekah T.; Justement, Louis B.; Pandey, Sumali – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2023
Immune literacy--the ability to hear, learn, read, write, explain, and discuss immunological content with varied audiences--has become critically important in recent years. Yet, with its complex terminology and discipline-specific concepts, educating individuals about the immune system and its role in health and disease may seem daunting. Here, we…
Descriptors: Epidemiology, Scientific Concepts, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
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