How Schools Can Engage in a Productive Curriculum-Resource Review
Articulated Curriculum, Blog, Curriculum Development, Decision-Making, The Teacher's Lounge | November 30, 2022
Our podcast, The Teacher’s Lounge, recently featured an interview with Dr. Renee Mungons, curriculum director at Emmanuel Christian School in Sylvania, Ohio. She shared helpful details from her school’s process of curriculum review. Below is a shortened transcript of...
Hidden in Plain Sight: Why We Need an Articulated Curriculum
Has it ever happened that your students come to you with a deep knowledge of dolphins? As you begin your lesson on mammals, your students raise their hands and say, “A dolphin is a mammal.” Another student raises her hand and says, “Dolphins live in pods. Usually...
Five Marks of a Robust Curriculum in a Faith-Based School
All schools have academic excellence as their top priority, if not their main reason for existing. Faith-based schools have this too as their priority, an integral part of fulfilling their mission that goes beyond academic excellence. Hence, curriculum must be taken...
Collective Teacher Efficacy and School-Wide Outcomes
Articulated Curriculum, Blog, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Trak, Effectiveness, Teacher Clarity | February 23, 2022
According to Dr. John Hattie’s educational research examining hundreds of factors that influence student learning, what has the greatest impact on student achievement is collective teacher efficacy. Collective teacher efficacy is the idea of teachers sharing a common...