8 min
64. Student-centered Curriculum Design Apple Blossom Teachers
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- Self-Improvement
Student centered norms and classroom design are important to establishing the ownership and engagement we desire. But what about when we get into the day-to-day, actual content area instruction?
Many of our teacher manuals aren't particularly designed to be student-centered, primarily because the big publishers don't know our actual students! There are somethings we can do, though, to adapt our content delivery and activities to be more student-centered:
1. Overlapping our content areas
2. Intentionally using formative assessments and flexibility of pacing
3. Providing opportunities to go deeper, not just move faster
Student centered norms and classroom design are important to establishing the ownership and engagement we desire. But what about when we get into the day-to-day, actual content area instruction?
Many of our teacher manuals aren't particularly designed to be student-centered, primarily because the big publishers don't know our actual students! There are somethings we can do, though, to adapt our content delivery and activities to be more student-centered:
1. Overlapping our content areas
2. Intentionally using formative assessments and flexibility of pacing
3. Providing opportunities to go deeper, not just move faster
8 min