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BEST PRACTICES IN IMPLEMENTING CURRICULUM IN THE CLASSROOM
The document outlines best practices teachers can implement in their classrooms, including balancing the curriculum, integrating subjects, differentiating instruction, and providing active learning opportunities. A balanced curriculum includes all subjects, promotes brain development, and prepares students for success. An integrated curriculum allows students to identify topics and research across disciplines. Differentiating the curriculum meets the individual needs of students and nurtures their strengths. Active learning engages students through hands-on activities and collaborative work.
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BEST PRACTICES IN IMPLEMENTING CURRICULUM IN THE CLASSROOM
- 1. BEST PRACTICES CanTeachers Implement in Their Classrooms
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- 3. What a BalancedCurriculum Is? Includes entire Standard Course of Study Educates the whole child Includes a challenging and common curriculum Prepares students for success in school and in life
- 4. Includes allsubjects verses only those subjects tested Promotes brain growth and development through an enriched environment Promotes a curriculum that is rigorous, relevant and promotes relationships Creates active participants rather than passive observers Allows students to use the whole brain
- 5. Why Teach aBalanced Curriculum? • Fundamentally complete program of education • Globalization • Superior and competitive education • Life skills • Connections
- 6. • Brain development • Multiple intelligences • Meets the needs of all children • The 3 R’s – Rigor, Relevance and Relationship
- 7. Implementing a Balanced Curriculum Helps Students: Find relevance in and connections with what they are learning Develop a love of learning and become lifelong learners Understand themselves and those around them Demonstrate talents they bring with them to school Develop new, necessary skills and abilities to be successful in school and in life.
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- 9. What is anIntegrated Curriculum? The practice of integrating curriculum involves students in the unit development process. It affords students the opportunity to identify topics, develop questions, plan inquiry, divide tasks, research information and share the learning process and content. Technology resources are also embedded into daily practices of the classroom.
- 10. Why Teach anIntegrated Curriculum? • Empower students to take ownership of their learning • Supports brain-based research • Focuses on both ideas and content
- 11. Implementing Integration StrategiesHelps Students: • See the connectivity and interaction among disciplines • Choose appropriate activities • Examine organizational skills • Attack multi-levels of activity and challenge • Develop research skills
- 12. • Assume authenticresponsibility • Engage in active learning • Work collaboratively with others and • Refine their technology skills
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- 14. What is Differentiated Curriculum? One where teachers adapt the curriculum in different ways to meet the needs of all their students.
- 15. Why Differentiate Curriculumin the Classroom? • Provides access to opportunities for rigorous curriculum based. • Provides opportunities for individual acceleration and remediation • Nurture self-esteem and respect • Increases motivation through exploring individual interests and • Builds relationships with students by knowing their strengths.
- 16. Differentiating Curriculum Helps Students: • Master core concepts of the curriculum • Utilize their strengths, learning styles, and background knowledge • Set individual learning goals and • Develop their personal skills and projects
- 17. Provide Active Learning Opportunities
- 18. What is ActiveLearning? Is a process in which the students are engaged in hands-on activities rather than passively receiving knowledge.
- 19. Why Utilize ActiveLearning in the Classroom? • Draws upon the pre-existing knowledge that students already have. • Is essential for idea manipulation • Enhances understanding through cooperative learning and • Augments learning through technology tools
- 20. Helps Students: •Engage in higher-order thinking skills • Study ideas, solve problems and apply what they have learned • Construct hypotheses and make decisions • Provide meaning and organization to experiences
- 21. • Work collaborativelywith others. • Connect real-life work between school and what will take place in the rest of their lives and • Address cultural influence and individual learning styles.
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