Curriculum and Content

Vision

The goal of Curriculum and Content is to ensure students learn material that coherently builds important understanding and skills. To learn content deeply, students must connect prior knowledge with material they learn and understand how that knowledge builds to future concepts. Ideas and motivations students bring to the classroom need to be valued and leveraged as resources for learning. Students must see how their learning is connected to their career aspirations, work in their communities, and positions as citizens. Learning about the history and current work in the discipline from multiple cultural perspectives, and the contributions of scholars with various identities can help students make these connections.

Curriculum and content Indicators

1) Students’ prior academic knowledge, cultural knowledge, and experiences are elicited and embedded in learning activities.

2) Students anchor their learning to foundational STEM disciplinary ideas.

3) Students recognize how the purposes of assignments/activities align to the course's foundational STEM disciplinary ideas.

4) Students make connections between content in previous, current, and next lessons/courses.

5) Students learn how STEM disciplinary knowledge, systems, and structures can be used to benefit or harm specific communities and ecosystems.

6) Students have opportunities to discuss and critique privileged knowledge systems and learn STEM disciplinary history from multiple cultural perspectives.

7) Students make connections between the STEM content they are learning and societal issues that impact local and global communities and ecosystems.

8) Students learn about the contributions of scholars with a variety of identities.

9) Students engage in learning experiences that draw on and value diverse cultures, ways of knowing, and/or frames of reference.

10) Students reflect on how their professional aspirations and STEM knowledge and skills could address community, local, and global issues.

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