Week #2: A Synthesis of Learning Critical Lessons in Curriculum

PurposeWe will be focusing on synthesizing what we have learned about the knowledge, skills, attributes of quality teaching and apply this to what we know about the 21st century classroom.

Critical Evidence: Course Work: PLC Presentations (Movie Trailers, Glogs)Course Participation Task #2: My ResumeTech Task #2: Our SymbalooReader Response #2: Integration Articles

Required Reading: Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 4: How to Integrate the Curricula

The key to success is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result

What kind of curriculum experience will you design?Will your curriculum address the essential

understandings and learning outcomes of the program of studies? And integrate cross curricular competencies?

Will your curriculum plan inspire, motivate, and engage students?

Will your curriculum allow for collaboration?Will your curriculum meet the needs of the 21st

century learner?Will your curriculum demonstrate creativity and

innovation in teaching and learning?

Curriculum: The Future and You

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Stage 1 – Desired ResultsLearning Target(s): Students will understand that…

Critical Questions:

Students will know… Students will be able to…

Stage 2 – Assessment EvidenceFormative Assesssments: Summative Assessments:

Stage 3 – Learning PlanLearning Activities: High Yield Strategies:

Accommodations: Differentiation:

Retrieved from “What did youdo in school today?”, CanadianEducation Association, 2009

THESE ARE CRITICAL TIMES

Student Engagement Surveys

Very OftenOftenSometimesVery Seldom

I am interested in the topics I am learning at school

Secondary

Elementary

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The Elementary Survey: A snapshot

Why are these rated as less effective?

Do we abandon these orjust do them better?

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The Secondary Survey: A snapshot

Why are these rated as less effective?

Do we abandon these orjust do them better?

Nel NoddingsCritical Lessons:

What our schools should teach?

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

***Albert Einstein

Poll Everywhere:Poll #1

Poll Everywhere:Poll #2

Simulation: What if?Bad News: Due to years of ignoring the warnings of

impeding catastrophe due to global warming, the Earth is collapsing in a series of extreme weather in the form of blizzards, hurricanes, drought, floods, and destructive tornadoes.

Good News: You have been selected to join a blended team of scientists, geologists, philosophers, medical personnel, and yes, even politicians to venture to a new “Earth-like planet” to set up our first interplanetary colony. We will have approximately 10,000 people including families and children.

Because of your expertise in curriculum foundation and inquiry, you have been chosen as our education team to devise a new curriculum that will be used for teaching the new children of our first colonists, as well as all of the future children that will arrive.

Design a curriculum that is based on five key principles (subjects, topics, structure, delivery, content, etc.) that will honor our past, and guide our future success. Good luck citizens – you have five minutes to accomplish your mission.

Critical Lessons for our TimesWhat are the critical lessons we need to

teach our students today?Where is the place for teaching critical

lessons within our curriculum?What is the best way to do this? How do we treat this in an “Alberta” context?Why should we (if we should) integrate

critical lessons into our curriculum?

Curriculum in the 21st Century