Building a Great Alt Ed Program - Curriculum part one -The How

Building a Great Alt Ed Program/School - Curriculum part one

Textbooks are wonderful for those who don’t have time to create a curriculum for themselves - despite the conundrum that they don’t really engage all students at all levels.  Textbooks, in themselves, are there to serve a purpose - to have a canned curriculum that helps the conformity of the students and has them learning the same “facts and figures” as others using the same.   It keeps teachers from needing extra time to develop resources and sources of information and allows for simple planning.  However, Alt Ed students don’t really conform like most other students. 

 

No, they tend to be less engaged with such texts and curricula.  They need to have a purpose and a focus that engages them  - so how do you create something like that?  Each and every one of you has a creator inside that can be released in such a landscape.  But, beginning small, and mapping things out is the wisest and best method you could use.  This way you are working your way to help student engagement, success, and meeting benchmarks.  

 

Remember, in the Alt Ed environment, if it is genuinely Alt Ed, and not a subcategory of the mainstream with the moniker - making you and the students slaves to conformity and the corporate classroom - you are the captain of the ship, and you can help steer the students to the destination of their desires - what tools they need to conquer and find their end results are all part of the journey.  That’s what we have this week!  

 

In the conversation, I bring up the following book: 

 

The Curriculum Mapping Planner by Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Ann Johnson

I also mention these tools to help you:

 

Inspiration software

 

 LucidCharts

 

You should probably also exploreTeachers Pay Teachers as there are materials designed and written by teachers for teachers.  Many are pure magic.   

 

Next week Philip and I discuss Curriculum and types of designs.  We hope you join us then. 

 

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