Transforming curriculum mar 10

THE REDESIGNED CURRICULUM

Gordon Powell, Leanne McColl & Brooke Douglas

http://goo.gl/j2MbHw

It’s all online…

Learning Intentions

• Look at the components of the redesigned

curriculum –

a) competencies, b) big ideas,

c) personalized learning

• Experience one way of putting the pieces

together (practice lesson)

• Use the website and subject specific

discussions to deepen our understanding (Ed

Camp)

WONDER

PASSION

ENGAGEMENT

http://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_on_endangered_cultur

es?language=en

What? So what?

Data sets – not as boring as it sounds

Images – about 4 that represent a big idea

Words – what we see in the images

Texts – connected to the images & big ideas

Recursive – let’s take another look

Evolvable – let’s keep adding

Expandable – let’s go deeper

What do you notice?

What do you notice?

What do you notice? What do youwonder?

What do you notice? What do youwonder?

Components of the Unit(and the curriculum)

Let’s look!

Big Ideas – Wonder & Explore & Explain

Competencies – Thinking, Communicating, Personal & Social

Upside down triangle – low floor/high ceiling

Today’s Meet

What is standing out to you atthis point? What do you wonder?

Have one person record questions and comments fromyour table on today’s meet

WORD SORT• animal

• habitat

• fish

• camouflage

• survival

• helping

• eating

• insect

• bird

• prey

• reptile

• endangered

• dangerous

• adaptation

• colours

Types of texts Diverse, ranging in topic, level of difficulty, text to image ratio,

number of words

Expands our understanding of big ideas

Opportunity to layer in reading strategies

How we use texts allows students to process information and thentransform it

What to do with texts?

Book talk

Select a text

Identify the

strategy

Each group creates

a post-it summary to

share with the class

Let’s practice

Components of the Unit(and the curriculum)

Let’s look!

Big Ideas – Wonder & Explore & Explain

Competencies – Thinking, Communicating, Personal & Social

Upside down triangle – low floor/high ceiling

Today’s Meet

What is standing out to you atthis point? What do you wonder?

Have your scribe post yourthoughts online.

Let’s look at the Ministry’s site