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What to Cut? What to Keep? What to Create?

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Empowering Inspirational Learning Teams

Connected

Transparent

Cohesive

3. Practical – Making it Happen!

Depth of Understanding

• Start with the End in Mind

• Enduring and Future Focused

What structures and strategies are present in your school?How might you use these to begin mapping?

What would need to change?

How do these strategies align and inform school wide practice?

What’s the Difference?

Topic

• Photosynthesis• Chemical change

• World wars• Rules and Laws

• Research

• Novel Studies• Shakespeare

Concepts – Big Ideas

• Processes• Conversion• Function• Sustainability

• Conflict• Rights and Responsibilities• Force

• Reliability• Validity• Perspective• Persuasion

What’s the Difference?

Topic

• A focus subject • Limited by the narrow boundaries

• Knowledge Acquisition Base

• Narrow opportunity for application

• Transfer

Conceptual Understandings

• Abstract idea or Philosophy

• Generalisations based on inference

• Transferable across time and location

• Understanding reached through a chain of reasoning

• Prone to common misunderstandings

• Provides focus and purpose

• Can be subject specific and overarching

From To • Topic • Concept

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Albert Einstein

Getting Started

Deep, Conceptual Understanding

Transfer of Knowledge Skills and Values

Authentic Assessment Tasks

Criteria for Success

Problem Based/Inquiry Scenarios

Transferred to Life Situations

Past

Present

Future

• Quality Mapping……

• Identify a curriculum area

• With a familiar unit in mind:- Identify Possible Concepts

- Discuss and unpack to identify important related big ideas

- Consider other learning areas where there might be an alignment

• Brainstorm possible Essential Questions

• Develop an Authentic Transfer Goal

Group Task

Developing a Problem Based Scenario

• G Goal

• R Role

• A Audience

• S Scenario/Setting

• P Product

• S Standard (Criteria)

Authentic Assessment

Source: Understanidng by Design (UbD) Wiggins & McTighe. ASCD

Key ElementsUnpack Requirements

Ao’s/Standards

Understandings

Students will Understand that…..

.Knowledge

Students will Know that……

Skills – Critical7 Creative Thinking. Transfer

Will be able to …orLearning how to…

L4

L5

L6……

Unpacking Requirements ……

Key Map ElementsConcept Understandings

Students will Understand that…..

Essential Questions Transfer Goal

Assessment

L4

L5

L6……

What to Cut? What to Keep? What to Create?

Consider these Elements

Skills

CommunicateCollaborateConnectCreate Think Critically

Literacies

BasicInformationMediaGlobalNetworkDigital Citizenship

With thanks to Silvia Rosenthall Tolisano www.langwitches.com

Fluencies

MediaInfoDigital CitizenshipCollaborationSolutionCreativity

How will you embed these?

EDSteps http://www.edsteps.org/CCSSO/

Realisations

Continuity

Alignment

Relevance

Student voice

Academic Vocabulary

Focus of skill development

Purposeful regular review

Connectivity

Community

Authentic

Relevant

Deep Understandings

• Knowledge / Content

• Skills (Dispositions)

• Assessment

Review, Revise, Renew – a continuous process of analysis and decision making

• What to Cut?

• What to Keep?

• What to Create

• Required • Designed

Curriculum Mapping Aligning New forms of Learning

What to Keep? What to Create?What to Cut?

Creating and Analysing – Technology Based

• Record• Review• Sort• Sift• Drill down• Analyse• Align• Upgrade

• Link resources• School Curriculum

Guides• Review and Reflections• Opportunity to

personalise Access• Communicate