Less Is More: 4 Strategies To Streamline Your Curriculum
Less Is More: 4 Strategies To Streamline Your Curriculum
Educators often wonder how they are going to meet all the demands of Common Core. One important point is that the standards require more depth and less breadth. Meeting these standards can be done by doing less, not more. In this post, we’ll look at three effective ways to do this: integrating curriculum, combining test prep into daily learning, and cutting topics.
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