Amplifying the Voice of Teachers: Reforming Curriculum

Amplifying the Voice of Teachers: Reforming Curriculum
Date and time
9:05 AM - 9:55 AM, September 30, 2020
Description

Missouri State University invites you to attend the 17th annual Public Affairs Conference as a live virtual event Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2020! This year's public affairs theme is The Power of Voice

Links to all live webinar events will be listed on the Public Affairs Conference schedule website.

Teachers and professors have a long history of creating their own lesson plans, assignments and learning activities. Now, online “open education resources,” or OERs, and other shared teaching materials in the public domain are gaining popularity. That means educators from the elementary level through the university level are reshaping curriculum and instruction, allowing for amplification of the voices of educators. These accessible and (often free) licensed materials have transformed many educators’ course content and pedagogy. Instructors can now plan learning through collaboration and information sharing, rather than by traditional means. What are the implications of this vast new curricular resource? Are these tools too individualized to be useful on a large scale? Are issues, such as personalization and collaboration, being overshadowed by intellectual property concerns? How will professional learning standards and state achievement testing be affected? What are the pros and cons of expanded teacher efficacy?

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Admission

Free

Open to public, alumni, current students, faculty, future students, staff
Location
Live Virtual Event