Putting the Pieces Together: Making Connections with Curriculum Mapping NESA Spring Educators Conference.

Putting the Pieces Together: Making Connections with

Curriculum Mapping

NESA Spring Educators Conference

Your Facilitator

John Moore&

Meng Zhou

Rubicon International

Goals• Explore how the newest features in the Atlas system can be applied and used to maximize curriculum design efforts.

• Examine the use of widgits within Atlas to support and drive initiatives and pedagogies.

• Strategize with colleagues on best practices.

What is happening in the world today?

Current Trends1. Globalization 2. Micro Trends3. Pervasive Technology4. Exponential Rate of Change

Globalization

MicrotrendsIn today’s mass societies it takes only 1% of people making a dedicated choice -contrary to main stream choice - to create a movement to change the world!

From Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Change” – Mark Penn

Pervasive Technology

Rate of ChangeToday’s student will hold 10-14

jobs by the time they are 38.

The top 10 jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004!

More than 3,000 books are published

daily.

In the US within the next decade, 75% of the current teachers

will have been replaced.

Your Reflections on Today’s World Trends

The Students of Today

Generation Difference Summary

From the Department of Education in South Australia

Question Generation Y (born 1980 – 1995/2001)

Generation X (born 1960s-1980)

Baby Boomers (1947-1964)

What do you want from a job?

Fun, challenging, interesting, money not so important

Money, rise, promotion, office with a door, window, want ‘your’ job, respect

Superannuation, pension, no change

What do you want from the boss?

Don’t believe the boss concept, wont follow a manager who just talks, wants a mentor

Stop trying and making promises that can’t be delivered, want truth

Go away – don’t micro manage me, just tell me what you want

If the job doesn’t deliver?

Leaves immediately, can’t be bought, $ don’t buy passion or engagement

Negotiate with you. I need you to … focus on work life balance (have young children and old parents). If don’t deliver will stay but will start looking elsewhere. Have to spend $ on them – talk is cheap

Hang in – sometimes said that retire on the job

It’s interdisciplinary combinations – design and technology, mathematics and art – that produce YouTube and Google.

Thomas Friedman The World is Flat

Jobs in today’s world are about innovation. The new

breakthroughs are about thinking across the disciplines.

What skills are most important for job success when hiring a

High School graduate?

Work Ethic 80%

Collaboration 75%

Good Communication 70%

Social Responsibility 63%

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving 58%

Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for Human Resource Management. (2006)

What skills and content areas will be growing in importance in

the next five years?

Critical Thinking 78%

I.T. 77%

Health & Wellness 76%

Collaboration 74%

Innovation 74%

Personal Financial Responsibility 72%

What might the World Look Like for our Students in 2021?

Our First Graders are Part of Generation Z

• Also known as iGeneration and Silent Generation

• They make up 18% of the worlds population

• Instant-gratification due to technology• No memory of (or nostalgia for) pre-Internet history

• Take the Internet for granted• Mass collaboration via Net Communities

• Lack of privacy• Expect to speak to an audience

2021…What skills and

understandings will be needed for the class of

2021?

What will you need to integrate into your

curriculum to ensure your students are

prepared for the future?

How Atlas can Help in Integrating Necessary

Components for Student Learning into the

Curriculum

It Helps Us Connect

All The Pieces

Atlas 7.0

My Atlas

Drag and Drop Capabilities

Initial Plan for Lesson Integration

Searching Attachments

Dynamic Filtering in Browse

Multi-Category Scope and Sequence

Special Programs

DifferentiationModification

AccommodationEnrichment

Assessment &

Standards

Early Childhood

Administration&

Professional Development

Accreditation

Character Education

&Values

Professional Learning

Communities

What are your key curriculum integration pieces?

3-2-1• List three observation from our

discussions today• Choose two curriculum integration

opportunities to meet your student needs

• Identify one change you will make or recommend to your colleagues for this year.

I believe that current formal education still

prepares students primarily for the world of the past, rather than for

possible worlds of the future

Howard Gardner