1. Week #2: A Synthesis of Learning Curriculum in the 21st Century

2. Purpose: We will be focusing on synthesizing what we havelearned about the knowledge, skills, attributes of quality teachingand apply this to what we know about the 21st century classroom.Critical Evidence: Chapter Presentations, Movie Trailers, ChapterBrochures, Course Participation Task #2: Our Symbaloo, Task #2:Article CritiquesRequired Reading:Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 4: How to Integrate the CurriculaReview: Chapters 1, 2, 3,& 4: Beyond MonetMovie Trailer Exemplar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6UDrXB1Zk 3. The Quality Teaching Documentdefines the end.and thebeginningAlberta Education:http://education.alberta.ca/media/311294/421.pdf 4. and the future? 5. Understanding by Design.in real life A Wedding Building a house Planning a family Planting a garden Shoveling the driveway Planning a trip Raising children Getting a Masters Degree 6. What is the 1st thing you do? 7. ThinkBig RocksSandWater 8. Culminating Projects 9. Symbols, Models and Frameworksof learning and schools Compare and Contrast Finish the sentence:Schools are like _______________________because________________________________________________Learning is like _______________________because________________________________________________A symbol of learning/schools today is _______________because_________________________________________Videoclips:Old Thinking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZnS8SEfcxMNew Thinking:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U 10. Curriculum Questions What is Curriculum? Who decides what curriculum is taught? Why do we study the specific subjects we do, in theway we do, and test them as we do? What influences how curriculum changes? Where do present schooling practices come from? To What questions are schools the answers? How do different societies educate their young? 11. Curriculum: Now and ThenCurriculum Experts: John Dewey Ralph Tyler Jerome Bruner John Franklin Bobbit Egerton Ryerson Paulo Freire Nel Noddings Eliott Eisner Timeline ActivityHow far have we progressed? 12. Shifting Curricular ParadigmsTraditionalismProgressivism1. Where do you put constructivism and behaviorism?2. Where would you put junior high philosophy and middle school philosophy?3. Where would you put teacher directed curriculum and student directed curriculum?4. What have been the patterns in Canadas history?5. Where are we in Alberta? The rest of the World?6. Where would you put YOU?7. Thinking Differently for the Future: Sir Ken Robinson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U 13. How have these incidents impacted curriculum?October Sky:How does this student experience the prescribed curriculum? 14. More Curriculum Questions How will you teach todays digital natives when theycome to you in middle school? (Remember Bridger) What will children need to know 10 years from now (or25 years from now)? What defines if a student is successful? What isacademic success? Who should measure it? How oftenshould it be measured? Who should be involved in curriculum development?Who should evaluate curriculum? What do todays students say about the curriculum? 15. Retrieved from What did youdo in school today?, CanadianEducation Association, 2009 16. Secondary Very Often Often Sometimes Very SeldomElementary 17. 1st2nd3rd4th5th Why are these rated as less effective?Do we abandon these orjust do them better? 18. 1st2nd3rd4th5th Why are these rated as less effective?Do we abandon these orjust do them better? 19. Are we teachers? Determining the learning destination Creating questions that foster inquiry Designing units, backwards Determining assessment evidence Recognizing the benefits of performance criteriaor are we designers?Architects of instruction? Facilitators of learning? 20. Unit Title:Grade:Subject, Topic:Time: Stage 1 Desired ResultsLearning Target(s):Critical Questions:Students will understand thatStudents will knowStudents will be able to Stage 2 Assessment EvidenceFormative Assesssments:Summative Assessments:Stage 3 Learning PlanLearning Activities: High Yield Strategies:Accommodations:Differentiation: 21. Curriculum:The Future and You What kind of curriculum experience will you design? Will your curriculum address the essentialunderstandings and learning outcomes of the programof studies? Will your curriculum plan inspire, motivate, andengage students? Will your curriculum allow for collaboration? Will your curriculum meet the needs of the 21stcentury learner? Will your curriculum demonstrate creativity andinnovation in teaching and learning? 22. Nel NoddingsCritical Lessons: What our schools should teach?We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we usedwhen we created them. Albert Einstein 23. Poll Everywhere:Poll #1 24. Poll Everywhere:Poll #2 25. Simulation: What if? Bad News: Due to years of ignoring the warnings of impedingcatastrophe due to global warming, the Earth is collapsing in aseries of extreme weather in the form ofblizzards, hurricanes, drought, floods, and destructivetornadoes. Good News: You have been selected to join a blended team ofscientists, geologists, philosophers, medical personnel, andyes, even politicians to venture to a new Earth-like planet toset up our first interplanetary colony. We will haveapproximately 10,000 people including families and children. Because of your expertise in curriculum foundation andinquiry, you have been chosen as our education team to devisea new curriculum that will be used for teaching the newchildren of our first colonists, as well as all of the futurechildren that will arrive. Design a curriculum that is based on five key principles(subjects, topics, structure, delivery, content, etc.) that willhonor our past, and guide our future success. Good luckcitizens you have five minutes to accomplish your mission. 26. Critical Lessons for our Times What are the critical lessons we need to teach ourstudents today? Where is the place for teaching critical lessons withinour 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 lessonsinto our curriculum? 27. Curriculum in the 21st Century