Curriculum development Puns

I am a teacher who is moving to a state with a poor education system next year and am taking the opportunity to consider other options. I love the kids but I also LOVE creating interactive, engaging, and downright pretty digital resources for my classes (high school level history).

That said, I’m not ready to jump into the corporate sector. I’d like to stay within the realm of social studies education and my dream job outside of teaching would be spending my day learning design skills and creating interesting online materials to allow students to get engaged with history in cool interactive ways. I don’t care to analyze data but I love the actual execution and creation.

Is that curriculum development? Is that ID? eLearning? Or are you like “no, brkfsttco, that’s a teacher making lesson plans.” Or is a dream that doesn’t actually exist?

Hello wonderful people! I need advice from the people that would understand this situation the best. Idk if I picked the right tag for this, so let me know if it is wrong!

I am a young provisional teacher in the New England area that is looking for greener pastures, as I know many of us are already. I started teaching right before COVID, and it has all been downhill from there. The final straw for me was getting a major injury at work earlier this year, and being treated like shit by admin and worker's comp. The way it looks right now, I will probably be out until close to the end of the school year... So I have time to buckle down and learn a new skill to change careers.

I found a post for a work from home position as a math curriculum designer for a well known online learning platform. They mainly are looking for a bachelor's in math, K-12 teaching/turoring experience, and knowledge of coding is a plus. I meet all these things, and I would die for the ability to work from home. I also saw listed on glassdoor that it could potentially be a 25k raise for what I make now. It looks like I would be creating materials for domestic and international use and working with a team of designers. Possibly also analyzing data from how successful these materials work?

I just want to know if there is something that I am missing? Has anyone else made this jump? If so, how?

It just seems too good to be true, and I really think I could be happy working from home and still being involved in education without having to deal with the everyday struggles of being a classroom teacher that we all know so well.

Thanks!!

I work in land development in Texas and plan to put together some curriculum to go over with my EITs. I want to discuss the following topics.

1. Basics of Sanitary Sewer Design
2. Basics of Water Design
3. Basics of Hydrology in Land Development
4. Basics of Road Design
5. Basics of Hydraulic Design and Analysis
6. Basics of Detention Design
7. Basics of Erosion Control

Could you recommend some resources, tips and alternative topics or ideas on how something like this might be most feasible and helpful for my eits?

I plan to do this one hour a week for 6-10 weeks. And leave 15 minutes at the end for q&a and case studies.

8th Grade teacher here, 3rd year. I want to get a job as a curriculum developer but I'm having trouble getting past the application process and to an interview... I've tried to change up my resume a bit to look more "corporate", but I'm not having a lot of luck. Any tips for getting development jobs with teacher experience? Or maybe places that take teachers? (Preferably in the PA Area)

I taught high school science for a few years, and I discovered that the thing I enjoyed the most was designing lesson plans and teaching materials. Whenever possible, I volunteered for professional development activities that involved assisting with the structure of my course's lessons and curriculum. Now I am moving on from teaching, but I love the idea of working a job that allows me to build or plan *what gets taught," rather than teaching myself.

Are there jobs out there for curriculum or lesson plan designers, for school districts, textbook companies, universities, or other employers? And if so, what kinds of skills should I work on developing to make myself for attractive to a potential employer?

In my spare time I have been learning 3D graphic software, and I'm using it to develope my own diagrams and artistic impressions for PowerPoints and whatnot. Other than this, what kinds of skills should I be learning? Is there literature out there that goes into the "science" of how to design an effective curriculum?

Since you've been an educator for a good while, what have you learned on this topic?

What are the key points to know about making an effective curriculum? And why mainly are those ways effective?

Hello. I'm creating a math curriculum from my school that serves urban students in foster care.

The idea is to teach them Number Sense type skills (many of our students, though secondary aged, are missing many core concepts & skills) but have each concept introduced and taught through its development through history and how it relates to the culture in which it developed.

Does anyone know of such a thing? If so, please send me in the right direction! Thanks!!!

The tricky part is that the content is typically taught to younger kids, but I don't want to infantilize them by having cartoonish images and such.

I've long dropped in history in my lessons periodically, but

For those who have been educating for some time, what are your key observations in this area?

What techniques and approaches work best from your experience, and what are some of the examples of their implementation?

To preface I am not a professional. I have had no education when it comes to this sort of work. I apologize if this is the wrong subreddit to post in but after looking around I figured this would be the best place. If there is a better subreddit to ask this sort of question please redirect me. I just need some insight.

I work in a programming tutoring school with a mediocre curriculum. The kids are often confused and are not able to properly get comfortable with the concepts of each lesson as they move along the program. As someone who has taught programming freelance for a long while I offered to improve the curriculum for my boss and he's interested in the offer. The question is, how much should I ask for?

My boss is asking me to create an add-on curriculum to the current one. Making what is essentially a "side book" to the main one that students that would serve to give students additional practice in applying each concept. This would come out to about 55 small programming projects. 30 of which would only take around an hour for students to complete, and 15 of which would take them maybe two to three. I'm not sure how many details to include but if more information is necessary I can answer in detail.

If anyone is willing I'd like some insight on how much I should charge for this sort of work and if there's anything important I should know.

I'm a grad student in a Secondary Ed program, History discipline, and I have a course project on curriculum development. I need interviewees to ask questions relating to this, our professor has it titled "How can we improve the way History is currently taught?" to give you insight on what the questions will be related to.

You can honestly be anyone, so long as you are connected to a high school either by having a child in school, teaching it, or being a student in a high school.

You can also remain anonymous and we can conduct the interview either through e-mail/IM or zoom or a phone call. It will not be recorded unless you give consent.

Thank you in advance, and feel free to ask me questions if you are interested.

I'm in Alabama, and I'm in a curriculum development course at the graduate level. I don't teach yet, but I have this strange anxiety I'm hoping someone can help me with.

This course is all about finding ways to provide students with authentic meaningful engagement with content through open ended questions that promote higher order thinking.

I have also read the NCSS Statement on Soc Stu standards

I feel like the mantle of responsibility is being placed upon me to decide what to do. For example:

> Social studies teachers recognize that students do not become responsible, participating citizens automatically. The values embodied in our democratic form of government, with its commitment to justice, equality, and freedom of thought and speech, are reflected in social studies classroom practice.

What is justice or equality or freedom of thought and speech exactly? What does the just and equal society look like? What is the best version of America, this "democratic" nation suppose to look like?

How am I suppose to hit my target if I cannot see it?

It seems to me the standards are purposefully vague on some things in order to avoid controversy and to be universally adopted. I feel like the standards WANT me to make a unit on the Long Black Freedom Struggle that culminates in an authentic open-ended and meanignful activity that helps students engage with CURRENT Black issues.

BUT to do so is to "pick a side" which the standards cannot do.

Here is another example though:

A unit on Women's Suffrage in the US would never include an essential question like "Do you think the US should have passed the 19th amendment?" Of course it should have, because our vague definition of equality suggests we ought to.

What am I to do with the student who suggests it was wrong to pass the 19th amendment though? Make a firm ethical stance on the issue and tell them they are wrong? Or reward their "critical thinking" skills as they pull out "research" on female psychology?

Or what if I did a lesson on the Atom Bombing of Japan and a student turns in an answer to the essential question "Should the US have dropped the bomb?" that is essentially a well written argument for "Nuke em and let God sort em out"?

I think what I am asking is how are we suppose to handle "objective" truth as it relates to moral questions when we as a society do not ha

First, thank you for all the posts that have given advice! I’ve used this sub as my first resource when trying to design labs.

I’ve taught at the college level, but that typically was me being told to teach something every week. I recently accepted a high school teaching job for this fall and will be building 4 classes from scratch.

What do you wish you knew when you first started building curriculum? Do you recommend any particular software or database for storing/organizing/etc.

Thank you!

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I'm thinking about quitting my job and learning front end development from scratch, but I need someone to hold my hand. What's the most guided start-to-finish (i.e. job offer) online course/curriculum to do this? This whole endeavor needs to be father-in-law proof in terms of legitimacy. I've read good things about frontendmasters, freecodecamp, and theodinproject. Codeacademy is another one I see marketed this way.

Time is not the biggest factor. I would rather take a year to learn everything properly than rush through something in a month or two. Thanks.

Hello! Lately I've come across some really interesting open source curriculums for computer science like OSSU over on github. I think these things are really interesting because the idea is they do there best to guide you around to free resources that end up resulting in a bachelor equivalent. My problem is I have not come across one for game design and development specifically. Does anyone know of any open source or free (or really cheap) curriculums for game design and or development?

I'm not talking about individual moocs I'm more so looking for the full package, sometime more structured that I can follow if I wanted to self learn.

Hello, I currently work in the training/development field in China and am planning to move to Canada next year. I hold a Masters degree in Education and I want to earn some training/development related qualification before moving. I was trying to search for available online courses in Canada but I’m not sure about the difference between the above mentioned 3... which one should I pick if I want to get a job as a learning experience designer in the future? Some job ads mention “adult education” while others prefer “instructional design” or “curriculum development”. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. :)

Out of curiosity, do any of you follow (or use to inform what you work on/when and to frame expectations and assessment) a curriculum or set of development guidelines? I'm talking here about things like the ed department's standards on physical education, FIFAs guide on youth development through maturation, the USSFs development "framework", or you know, anything else.

I sort of refer to that old Ajax method book that I shared a while back, an old DFB guide on the amateur game, and some guidelines on cognitive and physical maturation. I do that on something of an ad hoc basis that's semi-cohesive and long-term oriented... but mostly is a little too variable to really say I "stick" to a curriculum.

Anyhow, again, just curious whether you all do something similar, something more or less organized, something entirely different - and also curious about what resources you all refer to in order to focus how you work within a larger framework/method/approach.

I'm software developer and have always dreamed of organizing an institution for teaching others how to code and successfully navigate a career in software development. I've begun outlining a curriculum and could use a dev or two to help flesh it out. Experience with the latest from java, spring and angular is a requirement, also being fluent in English.

I'd love to see examples of your writing as well as links to any code/projects you've done before. Please also include your rate per hour. I'm willing to pay up to $50/hour depending on experience and humbly accept that some folks deserve more than that.

Thanks for reading!

Level 5. Each and every one of them. The students not up to level are repeating the two words I give them. the ones more advanced are probably like... :" I gave you my five word answer about how I can stop polluting like eight times" What kind of utter POS curriculum is this?

Prefacing this with the fact that I enjoy making lists and crossing things off.

I guess on one hand you can let children develop and learn as they experience things in life (which most of us do?) but has anyone ever tried to be proactive and really be thorough and thoughtful about it?

Edit: missed a word

A few years ago I was looking at a bunch of school websites, both public and private. I found the following:

Introductory pages talk about critical thinking, but when you go through the courses there is no mention of it again.

Ok. CT is a grab bag for a bunch of different skills, and I didn't specifically search for all those skills.

I also didn't find a good definition of what CT was.

So, I want to springboard a discussion of what would go into a CT curriculum.

A: How do you know what is true? Who do you believe. What makes NPR's News Hour more credible than Fox News? How do you evaluate sources?

B: Basic logic.

C: Logical fallacies.

D: Semantics and connotative word meanings. What is sensationalistic language? Paraphrasing in neutral language.

E: Rhetoric and debate. Learn to take either side in a debate.

F: Logical fallacies

G: Advertising and Propaganda in prose and visual media.

H: How to lie with graphs and statistics. The importance of numbers in news.

I: Looking for what's unsaid.

Ok. That's what I have so far.

Where would I do this in a too crowded curriculum? Some (A, C,D,E, F, I) would be part of language arts. As a kid I would have gladly sacrificed Silas Marner and The Scarlet Letter for these subjects. But connotations bear strongly on poetry. In general, LA would have a shift toward essays and away from literature. Others, H, B would be added to the math program. I think G would fit best into social studies/history/civics. E could have chunks everwhere.

Homework:

Q1: What are good resources for curriculum development for any of the topics above?

Q2: What additional major topic areas have I missed?

For those who are creating your own curriculum and teaching ESL on your own, what resources are you using?

I'm a grad student in a Secondary Ed program, History discipline, and I have a course project on curriculum development. I need interviewees to ask questions relating to this, our professor has it titled "How can we improve the way History is currently taught?" to give you insight on what the questions will be related to.

You can honestly be anyone, so long as you are connected to a high school either by having a child in school, teaching it, or being a student in a high school.

You can also remain anonymous and we can conduct the interview either through e-mail/IM or zoom or a phone call. It will not be recorded unless you give consent.

Thank you in advance, and feel free to ask me questions if you are interested.

• From what you've learned, what are the key points to know about making an effective curriculum
• And why mainly are those ways effective?

• From what you've learned, what are the key points to know about making an effective curriculum
• And why mainly are those ways effective?