Week #2: A Synthesis of Learning Curriculum – Now and Then

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

Digital and Technological Fluency

Communication

Social, Cultural, Global and Environmental Responsibility

Creativity and Innovation

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Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making

Collaboration and Leadership

Lifelong Learning, Personal Management and Well-Being

STUDENT

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

Symbols, Models and Frameworksof learning and schools

Compare and ContrastFinish the sentence:

Schools are like _______________________because________________________________________________Learning is like _______________________because________________________________________________A symbol of learning/schools today is _______________because_________________________________________

Videoclips: Old Thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_bOh9OIHbY New Thinking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

Curriculum QuestionsWhat is Curriculum? Who decides what curriculum is taught? Why do we study the specific subjects we do, in

the way 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?

Curriculum: Now and ThenCurriculum Experts:John DeweyRalph TylerJerome BrunerJohn Franklin BobbitEgerton RyersonPaulo FreireNel NoddingsEliott Eisner

Timeline ActivityHow far have we progressed?

Shifting “Curricular” Paradigms

Traditionalism

Progressivism

1. 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 Canada’s 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

October Sky: How does this student experience the prescribed curriculum?

How have these incidents impacted curriculum?

More Curriculum QuestionsHow will you teach todays digital natives when they

come to you in middle school? (Remember Bridger)What will children need to know 10 years from now

(or 25 years from now)? What defines if a student is successful? What is

academic success? Who should measure it? How often should it be measured?

Who should be involved in curriculum development? Who should evaluate curriculum?

What do today’s students say about the curriculum?

Curriculum in the 21st Century