Curriculum Writing Opportunites

• Curriculum Development for an Online Education Company
• Educational Development (curriculum) - (Volunteer)

An Article on Freelance Writing

This is a good article for those of you who are interested in freelance writing.

Curriculum Writing Opportunities

I will start posting curriculum writing opportunities in this blog. Please let me know if you would like to contribute to this new feature. This week, I want to spotlight a couple of opportunities that I find worthy to pursue.


1) California Education and the Environment Initiative is seeking curriculum reviewers and writers.

2) Teachers Network periodically accepts application for its Teachnet Disseminator Grant.

Cold Calling

I often pick up the phone and call various publishers and non-profit organizations to see if they are in need of freelance writers. I have gotten a couple of offers this way. I believe that consistency and persistence help me in this field. Many clients have said to me that if not for me bugging them....

This is a good piece by Deb Ng on Cold Calling in search of freelance writing jobs.

Evolution of a Test Item

This is a very interesting piece for those who write test questions. It talks about the evolution of a test item from first written by the item writer to field test.

http://mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/hsa/government/evolution.html

Business Cards

Under the advisement of several job seeking sites for freelance education writers, I decided to print up a stack of business cards from Staples. To avoid conflicts of interest, I do not give them out in school - ever. In order to make these cards work for me though, I include them in the resumes I send out as well as during workshops and conferences - almost anyone relevant outside of school. Aside from sending resumes frequently, I find giving out business cards to be useful in "getting your name out there."

What do you think?

Test Writing

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The Long Island town that's often called America's first suburb is blasting New York state over a social studies test that includes Levittown in the same category as shantytowns.
The question, on the state's eighth-grade social studies test, shows a photo of shacks labeled "A Shantytown during the Depression." Students were asked whether such areas were known as tenements, ghettos, Levittowns or Hoovervilles. (The correct answer is Hoovervilles.) In a letter to the state, the Levittown schools superintendent calls the reference "derogatory, totally unnecessary and inaccurate."
A state education spokesman says the department regrets any misunderstanding. Says Tom Dunn: "We meant no disrespect for Levittown or those who live there."
The test was administered two weeks ago to 200,000 students statewide.