How Schemas and HQIM Go Hand in Hand
Great Minds
Creator of Eureka Math, Wit & Wisdom, and PhD Science curricula and Geodes books for emerging readers.
Did you know that grouping information into schemas—knowledge structures that allow students to connect new information with existing information in their brains—acts as a shortcut in our brain that makes storing and recalling new things quicker and more efficient?
The challenge is that effort and intention are necessary to not only activate students’ existing schemas in a way that really helps their learning but also helps students expand those schemas and build new ones that will support their learning over time.
This is where high-quality instructional materials can be a valuable tool in the learning process for teachers and students. Curricula can systemically help students learn and build knowledge through thoughtful design that attends to topic sequencing, scaffolding, and breadth and depth of the content covered.
Learn more about how Wit & Wisdom?, Geodes?, and PhD Science? consider and build schemas within a grade level, across grade levels, and even across content areas.
Next month, we’ll discuss how art is leveraged in our curriculum.
Best,
The Great Minds Team
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2 个月We need more conversations like this in schools. This is the tricky part here is understanding what knowledge to build on and how it will progress throughout a curriculum. Vertical alignment is essential for this as well as holding students accountable for learning information at specific times so that it can be built upon.