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Teaching & Learning through Process & Product Educators must ask, "What is it that we want our students to be able to do?" and then build an environment that allows students to gain skills for achieving these goals. Most commonly identified goals for students to be able to do:
"Too often curriculum assumes that learning about the Pilgrims will eventually contribute to good citizenship, basic mathematics will enable students to balance expenses and income, and finding subjects and predicates will lead to effective writing. Too many students, however, do not turn out to be good citizens, cannot orient themselves in the real world of income and outgo, and cannot write clearly and effectively. Traditional objectives tend to be more closely related to some abstract structure of content knowledge than to successful living." (Virginia's Common Core Of Learning Takes Shape, Kenneth Bradford and Helen Randolph Stiff) Project-based Curriculum provides an environment for students to build skills for successful real-world living and for the new workplace. Schools desiring to improve student progress understand that the teacher's role in the classroom must be transformed. Teacher competency in providing project-based curriculum requires staff development in the following skills:
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