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Incorporating Best Practices Of Highly Effective Teaching Into Common Core-Aligned College Courses, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Incorporating Best Practices Of Highly Effective Teaching Into Common Core-Aligned College Courses, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Kentucky Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning
While aligning the Common Core Standards with Eastern Kentucky University’s General Education and Teacher Preparation courses has been the main focus of Curriculum Alignment for Retention and Transition at Eastern (CARTE), another way we responded to Senate Bill 1 was to identify ways in which to teach this new alignment at the college level. Our solution was to partner with Kentucky’s Council on Postsecondary Education to create a website on best teaching practices and to task each of our Professional Learning Communities with adapting the best teaching practices to its specific discipline (e.g., teacher prep). The result was the creation …