UbD backwards Mapping Resources

What is Curriculum Development?

• Curriculum development is the allocation of time and resources to making a plan for teaching that expresses what will be taught to students.

• Curriculum development is vital in setting goals ahead of time, looking at what is needed to be taught and creating a plan that will allow the best possible utilisation of time.

Curriculum development

• Importance of development - Creating a set of rules- Planning ahead of time - Implementation of the Stage 6 syllabus- The end product/ project

UBD Step 1• Identify desired results - What you want the students to learn- What are the ‘Big Ideas’- A sharper focus on learning priorities

UBD Step 2• Determine acceptable evidence- How you will get students to show learning - Assessments etc

UBD Step 3

• Plan learning experience and instruction lesson plans etc. How you will teach the subject.

Stage 6 Value

• Valuing the HSC – Importance in stage 6- Strongly scaffold by the BOS- Important to cover all content for the HSC and

school assessments• The importance of an end of year test in Stage 6

means all students must be given the same opportunities for success. UBD and backwards mapping allows teachers to plan towards the end result to allow for the best knowledge to be given to students.

Interactive Teaching Resources

Examples

Test tournamentYoutube video quizes

Interactive game learning/Gamified learningRole playing

Pop culture statistics

• Encourages maximum amount of interaction between teachers and students

• Ideally with a 70/30 split between student participation and lecture structure

• Goal: Develop students character, provide confidence and motivation to express ideas, opinions and emotions

Interactive Teaching Resources: definition

Benefits

• More effective than traditional teaching methods• Uses continuous engagement to create a more effective way to

engage contemporary students• Motivates students to learn and have ownership over this learning• Provides the students to teach peers, thus enhancing their own

learning• Creates a sense of community within a classroom• Teaches collaboration and cooperation/ ‘life’ skills

Implementation• Start simply and build this process

– EG: learning partners• Small group projects• Whole class projects

• Method of implementation– Summative – identifying/test student knowledge gained– Formative – assign task directly to students– Motivation – create an environment to elicit student response

• Eg: total physical response – students retain more through a physical setting

• Pair students to discuss pros/cons of topic• Encourage experimentation – don’t be afraid to make mistakes = learning• For conclusion of lesson: summarise lesson with one word and review

lesson accurately

Critical and Creative Thinking

What are critical and creative thinking? How do these concepts relate to syllabus implementation.

Critical Thinking

• Process of breaking down a problem and an analysis of the information to

• Literal and factual • Researching facts to form questions and find problems

Creative Thinking

• Using facts and merging your own spin to create a new idea• Brainstorming is a popular method

Critical Vs Creative

AnalyticalProbabilityAnswerYes, BUTLeft Brain

GenerativePossibility

AN AnswerYes, AND

Right Brain

In our Syllabus

• Critical thinking can be treated as researching and obtaining facts and “set in stone” information about existing products (research)

• Creative thinking could be considered idea generation and idea conceptualsation (combining existing knowledge and your own ideas)