Teachers have always written curriculum. That’s how we got started. Of late, we have left the writing of curriculum to textbook companies. Minnesota high school teachers have put a new twist on this. They saved their school district mega dollars, and students’ math scores on exit exams have improved.
Three teachers spent 100 hours each during summer break writing statistics curriculum to meet their state standards. The resulting textbook is available online. The beauty of the online text is that it can be updated continuously. “That's the cool thing about it,” Michael Engelhaupt, one of the developers said. “The book is kind of a living document.”
Could your students benefit from your efforts in this direction?
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