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Integrating standards, differentiation, and engagement by designing curriculum around big questions.

Organizing Curriculum Around Big Questions

Posted: June, 2010

Run Time: 4:06

Jim Burke shares how, by organizing teaching around big questions, he’s able to create curricular cohesion and avoid fragmentation by folding together skills, core content, and standards in a meaningful context that engages students of varying levels…even second-semester seniors.

 

 

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