Reclaiming the Multilingual Narrative of Children in the Borderlands Using a Critical Integration Approach

By joining together different methods and curriculum delivery in an elementary school setting, the author defined a unique critical integration approach to address questions of inclusive multilingual literacy practices. The author encouraged students to build upon their prior knowledge, ways in which to show that knowledge, and specifically, their linguistic cultural wealth, which generated a respect for the linguistic diversity of all students. The author created a collaborative pedagogical space in which the students constructed an innovative curriculum by co-mingling student experiences, their cultural and linguistic resources, and their interpretive frameworks. The teacher-research project involved a Funds of Knowledge orientation, the use of a variety of pedagogical tools influenced by the theory of Multiple Intelligences, gifted strategies, community cultural wealth, emancipatory education, critical and culturally responsive pedagogy, and visual arts aesthetics.

Higher Education Institutions and Post-Covid In-Demand Employability Skills: Responding Through Curriculum that Works

This study explained that the post-Covid world of work would demand a new set of employability skills. Higher education institutions need to respond by preparing graduates with manifest post-COVID-19 employability skills through innovatively delivered curricula. Through literature review, the study identified post-Covid-19 in-demands employability skills and ways of innovatively fostering them. The study adopted the descriptive survey method and canvassed (104) faculty members’ (from 9 public universities) opinions through an online poll on the skills they considered relevant for post-pandemic graduate employability and integrating them into universities curricula. Data collected were descriptively analyzed using frequency count and percentage. Findings showed that when universities commit to innovative curriculum delivery, students can easily acquire skills and competencies required to effective security and create jobs in the post-Covid job market effectively recommended that universities should innovate their curricula by integrating post-Covid in-demands skills needed for students’ post-Covid job market.

Looking for a bright side: Tales from a recreational therapy virtual service-learning project during a pandemic

The everchanging policies and inability to utilize university students due to COVID-19 impacted both residents living in long-term care as well as the next generation of students pursuing careers in the field. University Wisconsin-La Crosse (UWL) faculty strategized solutions as restrictions threatened to impact hands-on opportunities for students. Was there a safe and effective solution to offer residents evidence-based programming while also providing students with vital field experience? Simply stated, the answer was yes. Thus, the UWL Happiness Project was born. This session will outline the UWL Happiness Project, a ten-week, telehealth program implemented between a skilled nursing facility in rural Wisconsin and the UWL Therapeutic Recreation Program, an AGHE Program of Merit for Health Professions designated program. The evidence-based curriculum was developed by an emerging UWL graduate student scholar with faculty mentorship. The innovative curriculum focuses on increasing feelings of happiness using PERMA, a theoretical model grounded in positive psychology. During virtual sessions, older adult residents (ages 65-85) and students built connection while working through weekly focus areas (e.g. vitality, mindfulness, friendship). An overview of AGHE competencies addressed within the project, online course demonstration, and assignment development will be discussed along with information about how these connections fostered an opportunity for students to see aging from a different perspective. This is the first time we are presenting results from the newly developed program. In this, we look forward to sharing student measurements and outcomes, as well as lessons learned during this meaningful, stimulating, and insightful educational session.

Exploring Educative Components to Conceptualize an Effective Implementation of Reading Discipline Curricula in Pre-service Teacher-Education Program

The curriculum implementation literature has recently focused more on identifying and measuring the key components of the innovative curriculum needed to achieve desired outcomes. However, most of this work centers on curriculum implementation external to the field of teacher education. In this article, we report on our identification of the educative components that form one component of the framework for conceptualizing the implementation of newly developed reading curricula for a Bachelor of Education Elementary program. The results suggest that prerequisite knowledge about reading instruction and knowledge of the entire reading program are necessary for an effective implementation of curriculum change in the discipline of reading.

The Transformational Paradigm of The Pesantren Curriculum Innovation

This research begins from the problems faced in pesantren. They include curriculum management and learning, such as the implementation of teacher-centered learning and poorly planned learning evaluation. Thus, the researcher is interested in studying Pesantren Nurul Iman Garum Blitar, which applies an innovative curriculum using a transformative paradigm. The research method was qualitative research - a phenomenological approach. The findings were; first, there were three curriculum objectives: national goals, institutional goals, and learning objectives. Second, the learning material was reconstructing several books in the pesantren, such as the nahwu, shorof, and fiqh books. Third, the learning method was student-centred which encourage students to be active. In addition, it was also supported by some learning programs, including takror sughro, takror kubro, and syawir. Fourth, the learning evaluation employed formative and summative evaluation. Abstrak: Penelitian ini berawal dari kegelisahan akademik peneliti melihat beberapa problematika yang terjadi di pondok pesantren, diantaranya problem pengelolaan kurikulum dan pembelajaran, seperti metode pembelajaran yang cenderung teacher centered dan juga evaluasi pembelajaran yang tidak terencana dengan baik. Dari situ peneliti tertarik meneliti Pondok Pesantren Nurul Iman Garum Blitar yang membuat inovasi dalam kurikulumnya dengan menggunakan paradigma transformatif. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan fenomenologis dan jenis penelitian kualitatif. Diantara hasil penelitiannya sebagai berikut: pertama, desain tujuan kurikulumnya terdiri dari tiga macam; yaitu tujuan nasional, tujuan institusional dan tujuan pembelajaran. Kedua, desain materi pembelajarannya berupa rekonstruksi ulang beberapa kitab di pesantren, seperti kitab nahwu, shorof dan fikih. Ketiga, desain metode pembelajarannya menggunakan paradigma student centered dengan metode yang mendorong siswa aktif. Selain itu didukung dengan beberapa program pembelajaran, diantaranya takror sughro, takror kubro dan syawir. Keempat, bentuk evaluasi pembelajarannya menggunakan evaluasi formatif dan sumatif.

Longevity, legacy, and lament: Learning from longstanding educators in an innovative curriculum

Research about problem-based learning (PBL) tutoring in medicine has prioritized quantifying relationships between tutor characteristics or learning environment and tutoring behaviour or student outcomes. Longitudinal studies and qualitative research about how such tutors conceptualize their long-term experience are rare. The research question was thus: What educator outlooks do inaugural PBL tutors develop after substantial experience in a problem-based medical curriculum? At16 year-follow-up of interviews with an inaugural cohort of PBL tutors, semistructured interviews with the remaining ten explored their outlooks as educators now versus then. Two years later, an open-ended e-questionnaire (E-interview) reviewed their outlooks, particularly about the curriculum being replaced. Tutors viewed their role now through a more discerning, reflective, and constructivist ‘good educator’ lens. They articulated principles for facilitating active learning. When that curriculum was replaced, tutors were positive about its legacy but also lamented flawed educational governance for maintaining and renewing whole-system integrity. Educator development should prompt critical reflection about ‘the good educator’ identity, the related enthusiasms, discomforts, and uncertainties, and the impact of curriculum shifts.