Teaching to Big Ideas: Curricular Design Strategies for Promoting Deeper Learning
July 22, 2024
Teaching to Big Ideas: Curricular Design Strategies for Promoting Deeper Learning
Challenge, engagement, and student agency are at the heart of deeper instruction. The way we design or frame our instructional units around compelling ideas or BIG IDEAS enhances this challenge and provides students with learning opportunities to engage in meaning-making tasks that can ignite an intellectual curiosity to wrestle with these complex ideas. In this strand, we will explore organizing curriculum and instruction around a strong conceptual focus and explore instructional strategies and techniques for elevating intellectual thinking processes as we design curriculum in ways that remove the ceiling from learning and result in higher expectations, access to more advanced content, and provide a greater scope of academic growth and engagement for all students.