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Enhancing Teachers’ Knowledge Of Core Academic Standards Through A Digital Content Development Workshop, Yuejin Xu, George Patmor, Jamie Mills
Enhancing Teachers’ Knowledge Of Core Academic Standards Through A Digital Content Development Workshop, Yuejin Xu, George Patmor, Jamie Mills
Kentucky Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning
There is an immediate need to help classroom teachers understand the common core standards so they can more effectively teach the content to students of the digital generation. This study summarized the activities in a digital content development workshop for empowering teachers to develop standards-based digital content for K-8 students in need of accelerated learning. Using a pretest-posttest design, the study also examined the impact of the digital content development workshop on participating teachers’ knowledge of core academic standards. A self-developed Knowledge of Core Academic Standards (KCAS) survey was used to measure teachers’ recall of core academic standards, teachers’ awareness …