Starting with its Leo's Pad app, the company seeks to create a suite of 25 interactive stories that will play out over the course of a year-long curriculum kids can take part in.
The modules are also Common Core-aligned, interactive and include writing assignments, team-based activities and presentations and are designed to be flexible and customizable, so that teachers can assemble the modules into a semester-long curriculum or whatever they want.
To measure success for a 13-year-long curriculum, one must observe the curriculum for 13 years.
She said she's planned a month-long curriculum around Endeavour's arrival as part of her job at AbilityFirst, a nonprofit that serves people with disabilities.
The curriculum was developed during a year-long curriculum development course and all materials were developed in an iterative fashion based on feedback from course leaders and participants.
A school day that is too long, a curriculum perceived as not relevant to immediate needs, and methods and materials that lack dynamism are also factors that must be addressed in a comprehensive effort to bring children into the educational system.
These include WISE which provides an Internet-based platformiddlemiddle- and high-school science activities (Slotta, 2004) and MARS (Raghavan & Glaser, 1995) which is a semester-long science curriculum for middle-school students that was designed to foster the development of model-based reasoning skills.
This activity has been presented to 2nd year undergraduates of the 6 year-long medical curriculum at the School of Health Sciences, University of Minho.
We also found that many schools of education are long on theoretical curriculum, but short on the clinical practice that will truly prepare aspiring educators.
The school's three-year cooking curriculum — long housed in a doorstop of a book titled "The Professional Chef" — was released as an app last year.
