By Benjamin Heckscher, History Department Head Lycée International de Saint-Germain-en-Laye American Section I used to have an office full of folders, for each assignment, for each unit, for each trimester… Mountains of photocopies, textbooks, dog-eared...
By Elizabeth Clarkson Professional Development Specialist, Early Childhood Education and Early Literacy Early childhood curriculum writers face specific challenges when writing developmentally appropriate curriculum. There are many philosophies that educators draw...
By Sofía Amador, Professional Development Consultant & IB and Curriculum Coordinator, Marian Baker School Professional development must be at the core of any successful educational experience, and leading a curriculum development process is not the exception. It...
By Duygu Erdoğan and Özge Aydemir Kaya, Middle School Science Teachers Don’t you think “21st century learning” is a great challenge for students as well as their teachers? As teachers, we are responsible to equip our students with 21st century skills, which is not an...
By Viviana Nielsen and Anna Davies, International School of Zug and Luzern in Switzerland Phenomenon based learning is an interdisciplinary approach to learning in which students are presented with a phenomenon from the real world, for example: Why have there been so...
By Benjamin Heckscher, History Department Head Lycée International de Saint-Germain-en-Laye American Section As a history teacher, I’ve found that the most important step in successfully planning my year is owning the instructional material I want to...
