Curriculum for Highly Effective Teaching

The Center for Effective Learning offers up to Five Days of dedicated training for creating Conceptual Curriculum. Designed for K-12 teachers who have been introduced to the power of integrated curriculum with themes and are now ready to tackle yearlong, conceptually based content. This hands-on training workshop provides you and your team with time to develop conceptual curriculum for the coming school year. Each day, relevant general sessions will highlight important aspects of writing Highly Effective Teaching (HET) curriculum. Grade-level breakout groups follow general sessions where our HET Master Associates offer assistance as you create or refine your curriculum.
Meaningful curriculum must be:

• Based in physical locations that provide sensory-rich being there experiences from which to extract the concepts and skills to be learned
• Naturally integrated – the knowledge and skills needed by those who work at, visit, or use the being there location
• Conceptually stated – knowledge and skills connected under a broad umbrella that is easily generalized and transferable to other times, places, and situations

This is an ideal professional development training for grade-level teams to focus on the upcoming school year. Individual participants may request as much work time and feedback as needed.

Goals for Creating Highly Effective Teaching Curriculum

• How to select sensory-rich being there locations on which to base your curriculum
• How to develop a yearlong theme with kid-grabbing components and topics of significance
• How to write Conceptual Key Points (the big idea), Significant Knowledge Key Points, and Skill Key Points
• How to write Inquiries to provide ample opportunities for students to demonstrate understanding
• How to embed content and skills from your state standards into your Key Points and Inquiries

• How to engage students through Multiple Intelligences and integrate your curriculum
• How to develop curriculum that encourages collaboration and grows responsible citizens, and
• How to add enjoyment and satisfaction to your job as a teacher

We work with administrative teams and districts to provide high-quality professional development to ensure that the school delivers quality instruction resulting in high levels of student learning and mastery. This is accomplished by establishing the optimal conditions for learning in a respectful environment which implements effective curriculum that is rigorous, embedded with educational standards, and driven by formative assessment. We acknowledge that each school is unique and requires customized services to build an effective educational environment.