Curriculum and Instruction for Responding to Students Needs

"How the teacher guides teaching and learning will inevitably sculpt the learner's sense of self worth-and how the teacher directly and indirectly affects the student's sense of value will necessarily shape how the student learns"

Here are some strategies for important, focused, engaging curriculum and instruction:

• Focus student products around significant problems and issues.
• Use meaningful audiences
• Help students discover how ideas and skills are useful in the world.
• Provide choices that ensure focus.
• Look for fresh ways to present and explore ideas.
• Share your experiences and invite students to do the same. 

In teaching content, the teacher helps guide instruction by focusing on learning strategies that foster thinking skills in relation to the content. In connecting new information to what a student already knows, learning becomes more meaningful, and isn't just learned for test taking. To give one information is not difficult, but to help one be able to develop the tools to both know what information is relevant and to retain it is the most important tool for any teacher.