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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

CEU courses open for enrollment

Reading, Writing and Research: Integrating Literacy across the Curriculum
Turn your students into savvy consumers of information. Explore reading and writing instruction and information literacy concepts, and learn to effectively integrate these literacy skills into your teaching, regardless of the subject or grade level.
Take this course: Begins May 4.

From the education reference

curriculum compacting
Curriculum compacting is a content acceleration strategy that enables students to skip parts of the curriculum they have already mastered and move on to more challenging content and activities.
curriculum
The organization of subject matter to be taught over a prescribed period of time.
hidden curriculum
The norms, values, and beliefs transmitted to students through educational practices and content.
interdisciplinary curriculum
Applying methods and language from more than one academic discipline to examine a theme, issue, question, problem, topic, or experience. Interdisciplinary methods work to create connections between traditionally discrete disciplines such as mathematics, the sciences, social studies or history, and English language arts.

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Two paths to knowledge
For students who who always finish their class work early or want more information than you have time to give, try curriculum compacting.
By Waverly Harrell.
Gifted?
It is important for gifted children to be with other gifted children, the more often the better.
By Cathy Kroninger.
Camp Earth bound: Problem solving and finding for fun
Students will work together in small groups of four to six students to solve the following word problems. Their solutions will require them to practice interview techniques and create a database and/or spreadsheet of their results. This information will be the basis of the answers to the following eight word problems. Skills such as area, cost, calorie count, ratio, percentage and scale, as well as persuasive writing will be applied.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)