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:: RESOURCES: INSTRUCTIONAL WEBSITES: CURRICULUM
"Are the Best Curricular Designs "Backward"?
Very interesting article about how and why we plan our instruction to meet a standard. "It reminds us to begin with a question,
What would we accept as evidence that students have attained the desired understandings and proficiencies before proceeding to
plan teaching & learning experiences?"
Curriculum Websites from L.A.U.S.D.
A large and very useful list of websites organized according to the subject categories found in the Dewey Decimal system.
"Grazing the Net: Raising a Generation of Free Range Children"
by Dr. Jamie McKinzie
What is an infotective? . . . a student thinker capable of asking great questions" and learning how and what to do with the answers
one discovers. Further, an infotective "is a student who has learned to feed on the wild grains and fragments available on the
Internet or the shelves of the local library."
Understanding by Design Website (UbD)
A series of questions and answers concerning how to frame general "understanding" types of questions.
Writing Lesson Plans & Instructional Scaffolding
(Bruner; Langer & Applebee)
Has sample types of lessons (Critical Thinking, Multiple Intelligences, Scaffolding, how seating arrangements effect learning,
Teacher Roles, etc.) and a sample lesson plan using sailing as an example.
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