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Curriculum & 21 st Century Skills Week 4: Whole Group Summary Fawn Brunson

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Curriculum & 21st Century Skills

Week 4: Whole Group Summary Fawn Brunson

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~John Dewey

"If we teach today as we taught

yesterday, we rob our children of

tomorrow."John Dewey, the 20th century philosopher and educational reformer made this comment about the state of education in the early 1900’s.

Today, 21st century educators are still trying to address the needs of their learners with “antiquated mission statements reminiscent of the past century” (Jacobs, 2010, p. 8).

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Discussion

The integration of 21st century skills in curriculum.

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Essential Question 1

• How can administrators support the growing need to prepare students with the necessary 21st century skills to be successful digital citizens?– Support– Provide– Promote– Model– Change– Encourage– Implement

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Key Points

• Support, encourage, and model collaboration• Provide necessary resources • Accountability measures • Provide and support professional

development• Promote a culture of “risk taking” and

acceptance of failure

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More Key Points

• Model digital citizenship in their leadership practices

• Broaden assessment tools to include digital forms

• Implement the NETS for students, teachers, and administrators into daily school practices

• Support quality curriculum

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• How can school administrators include Common Core Standards in all curriculum development, and closely align local curriculum goals and objectives to state educational technology standards or NETS for Students?– Identify– Include– Utilize – Assess– Conduct– Allow – Expect

Essential Question 2

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Key Points

• Identify CCS and NETS that are already integrated in current curriculum, adjust as needed

• Allow time for learning, expect learning curve• Include teachers in the planning, development,

and aligning of curriculum • Utilize curriculum mapping and development

tools– ISTE Curriculum Planning Tool

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More Key Points

• Start with transforming assessments• Conduct a curriculum needs assessment• Assess teacher’s level of technology

understanding and NETS usage

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Essential Question 3

• As a school leader, how would you motivate teachers to use and become proficient in the NETS?– Model– Share– Build– Assess– Establish– Determine

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Key Points

• Model best practices daily• Provide authentic blended professional

development:– online, face-to-face, mentoring, teacher

observations…

• Share best classroom practices of the NETS in your school and challenge teachers to build on those successes

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More Key Points

• Teachers assess their own implementation of NETS using digital tools: – NETS Profiler Pro– School 2.0 Reflection Tool for NETS-T

• Establish personal learning communities and give teachers time to collaborate

• Establish school-wide goals for implementing NETS

• Determine a starting point (where are teachers) build from there

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Unanswered Question

• How to transform district leaders, directors, CEOs, and board members into digital leaders and supporters of 21st century skills?

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~Albert Shanker

“As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child."