Curriculum and Lesson Plans
Curriculum is at the heart of education. Investigate secondary school curriculum with this wealth of information, resources, and lesson plans for each subject area across the curriculum.
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Curriculum is not standardized throughout the nation or even thoughout each state. Further, from district to district the actual plan of study is often different for students. This article looks at the reasons for this lack of cohesiveness in creating a national curriculum and overarching plan of study. It then creates a sample plan of study that leads to further curriculum resources for teachers.
Standards are created to ensure that students from one classroom to another are taught the same basic information in a particular subject. The confusion comes in with periodic changes to standards along with the number of different standards available to a teacher for any one subject.
Writing lesson plans does not have to be difficult. In fact, this is the time when a teacher can really get creative. Here is a simple how-to on how to create effective lesson plans.
Here is a lesson plan template to help with the writing of lesson plans.
