Course DesignThis communicative Spanish 1 course is designed for middle and high school students as a year-long course with 4 units. Each unit is meant to last about 1 quarter or 8-10 weeks. Units are thematic and aligned to AP World Languages themes. Units were designed using a backwards planning model (Understanding by Design, McTighe & Wiggins, 2005), first considering unit goals and essential questions, then performance assessments, then core learning experiences and resources. All or most World Language Standards are braided throughout each unit. Units are vertically designed and build on one another. They are meant to be taught in the order presented. Lake Washington School District teachers collaborated closely with Laura Terrill, French teacher and curriculum design expert.  These units and templates are built off the principles and examples in the Keys to Planning for Learning: Effective Curriculum, Unit, and Lesson Design, by Clementi & Terrill (2017). We highly recommend referring to the Keys to Planning for Learning book, available through ACTFL, for more learning and deeper understanding of the intent and pedagogical underpinnings of this curriculum. Pedagogy and Teaching MethodsThe power of these units lie in their design around ACTFL's Guiding Principles. All units are designed to be taught 90%+ of the time in the Target Language (TL) using comprehensible input strategies. Core Resource Activity Guides outline suggested methods and activities for making content comprehensible in the TL. For more ideas on strategies we recommend these resources:Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom (Henshaw & Hawkins, 2022)Enacting the Work of Language Instruction (Glisan & Donato, 2017)

In this unit, students will learn how to introduce themselves in Spanish and exchange biographical information. They will also discuss their interests, hobbies, and dislikes in addition to comparing themselves with people from countries around the world.

The Weekly Agenda section contains a suggested weekly pacing guide for the unit, with suggested activities and an accompanying PowerPoint with resources. In the metaphor of a journey, this section is like an itinerary that maps out the milestones and suggested activities along the way.

Concepts underlying the first of the Essential Principles of the Climate Sciences are aligned with topics typically taught in the elementary grades. This article identifies lessons that will help elementary students develop an understanding of how Sun's light warms Earth and how variations in daylight hours are associated with seasonal change. This article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle.

Curriculum for Madar Al-Huruf, the Arabic transliteration wheel. This curriculum provides an overview of introducing students to the Arabic alphabet and teaching them how to write in Arabic script.

More resources for Madar Al-Huruf:

You can access the Q wheel workbook, which walks you through the steps of writing your name in Arabic, for free at this link: https://almasdar.oercommons.org/authoring/6042-madar-al-huruf-workbook/view
You can also download the Madar Al-Huruf app from the iTunes app store and Google Play: https://itunes.apple.com/mx/app/madar-al-huruf/id717596929?l=en&mt=8

About the developers:

The curriculum was developed by Fatima Abdulkadhem and Nour Jandali, Arabic teachers in Tucson, Arizona.

This unit was made possible through support and funding from Qatar Foundation International, LLC (QFI). A not-for-profit organization, QFI is a U.S.-based member of Qatar Foundation and is focused on grant-giving and programmatic activities that promote education as a force that facilitates collaboration across geographical, social and cultural boundaries. To learn more about QFI and the Arabic Transliteration Wheel, please visit: www.qfi.org.

This is a presentation for graduate students in the Curriculum and instruction field! In this presentation, students will be introduced to influential curriculum theorists over the span of 100 years. Students will also find a virtual bookshelf with suggested teacher ed prep books. A brief description about which educational theories and ideologies impacted each book is provided.

"Models of Excellence is a curated, open-source collection of exemplary high-quality PreK-12 student work, along with resources to support the use of student work models to inspire and elevate teaching and learning. The purpose of this site is to catalyze the use of models to help build student skills and dispositions for success in college, careers and life."

This guide is intended as a strategic planning tool for district leaders wishing to promote the already pedagogically and financially compelling practice of creating or adapting open educational resources (OER) to help achieve district goals in serving all students through diversity, equity, inclusion, or accessibility (DEIA) lens.  The guide provides step-by-step planning tools, including examples, templates, and resources to help district leaders articulate and establish action plans for what we refer to as "OER-DEIA."  The entire guide is an open educational resource itself, free and openly licensed for reuse, remixing, and resharing.

These are full-course openly licensed resources for districts interested in exploring OER options when considering core instructional materials for district adoption.

These are full-course openly licensed resources for districts interested in exploring OER options when considering core instructional materials for district adoption.

These are full-course openly licensed resources for districts interested in exploring OER options when considering core instructional materials for district adoption.

To provide children with a safe and nurturing learning environment and to maintain program effectiveness, teachers must incorporate observation, documentation and assessment into their daily routines. To truly be effective, teachers must develop skills and strategies that are grounded in best practices. This textbook covers topics such as observation methods and techniques, implicit bias, ethics of observation, quality, analyzing data, monitoring, screening and evaluation, meaningful curriculum, and using documentation and assessment to communicate with families.

ECE 103: Observation and Assessment

Focuses on the appropriate use of assessment and observation strategies to document development, growth, play and learning. Explores recording strategies, rating systems, portfolios, and multiple assessment tools.

The links within this resource are designed to provide educators with background context regarding the development of the K-12 Voices for Open OER-DEIA Action Plan for K-12 District Implementation.  Presented as a poster session at the 2022 OpenEd Conference, the slides explain the purpose of the Guide, as well as the development process.This guide is intendend as a strategic planning tool for district leaders wishing to promote the already pedagogically and financially compelling practice of creating or adapting open educational resources (OER) to help achieve district goals in serving all students through diversity, equity, inclusion, or accessibility (DEIA) lens.  The guide provides step-by-step planning tools, including examples, templates, and resources to help district leaders articulate and establish action plans for what we refer to as "OER-DEIA."  The entire guide is an open educational resource itself, free and openly licensed for reuse, remixing, and resharing.

This poster helps to explain the development process of the OER-DEIA Guide developed by K-12 Voices for Open, which can also be found on OER Commons.

Poradnik dotyczący sposobow na zoptymalizowanie wyników nauczania.A guide on how to optimize learning outcomes 

A guide on how to optimize learning outcomes Ένας οδηγός για το πώς να βελτιστοποιήσετε τα μαθησιακά αποτελέσματα