Performance-Based Learning Modules Ready in 6 Weeks!

In roughly 6-weeks time, 13 performance-based learning modules will be available on civicmirror.com for a variety of courses. These modules have been designed to be dynamic and organic (instead of linear and static) so teachers can pick and choose what learning modules best fit their course content and happenings in their students’ simulated countries.

Each module opens with an “Understanding By Design” performance task, which are real world tasks that will require students to (1) utilize the course content and (2) what they’ve learned from their Civic Mirror experience in order to (3) understand something about the real world more deeply.

For example, in the Market Forces module, students become economists who will use what they learned about the principles of supply, demand, and price to pre-value their economy’s properties before an auction. Or, in the Global Issues module, students become geographers who must rank their simulated country against the UN National Index, and then compare their country’s results to United States’ real-world rankings.

What’s really exciting, though, is that these learning modules will include all the academic content students need – Civic Mirror-using educators will no longer need textbooks for these units of study!What’s also exciting is that ‘select CM educators’ will be given ‘author access’ to update these modules in their digital form. In other words, the content and quality will continually get better and better and better!

The following 10 learning modules will be usable by any teacher in any country:

• Power and the Political-Eonomic Spectrum
• Rights/Responsibilities of Citizens in Democracies
• Justice and the Judicial Branch
• Market Forces: Supply, Demand, Price
• Government and the Economy
• Global Issues and Citizenship
• Dealing With Conflict
• Viewing Your World (What’s My Perspective?)
• Financial Planning & Goal Setting
• National Pursuits of Happiness

Stay tuned!