Week 3B: Critical Lessons for our Times

Curriculum:Critical Lessons for our Times

Curriculum:Critical Lessons for our Times

Week #3: Synthesis of New Knowledge

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

Nel Noddings Critical Lessons What should our schools teach?

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

***Albert Einstein

Who Loves Math?

Why Math Instruction is Unnecessary

Poll Everywhere:Poll #1

Poll Everywhere:Poll #2

Simulation: What if?• Bad News: Due to years of ignoring the warnings of

impeding catastrophe due to global warming, the Earth is collapsing in a series of extreme weather in the form of blizzards, hurricanes, drought, floods, and destructive tornadoes.

• Good News: You have been selected to join a blended team of scientists, geologists, philosophers, medical personnel, and yes, even politicians to venture to a new “Earth-like planet” to set up our first interplanetary colony. We will have approximately 10,000 people including families and children.

• Because of your expertise in curriculum foundation and inquiry, you have been chosen as our education team to devise a new curriculum that will be used for teaching the new children of our first colonists, as well as all of the future children that will arrive.

• Design a curriculum that is based on five key principles (subjects, topics, structure, delivery, content, etc.) that will honor our past, and guide our future success. Good luck citizens – you have five minutes to accomplish your mission.

Critical Lessons for our Times

• What are the critical lessons we need to teach our students today?

• Where is the place for teaching critical lessons within our curriculum?

• What is the best way to do this? • How do we treat this in an “Alberta”

context?• Why should we (if we should) integrate

critical lessons into our curriculum?

Stage 4: Plan Learning Activities and Instruction

Unit Lesson OpenerEDES 340 Presentations

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Planning Learning Activities:Think WHERETO:

WHERETO

WWhere are we going? Why?

What is expected?

HHow will we hook and

hold student interest?

EHow will we

equip students to explore and experience?

OHow will we

organize and sequence the

learning?

THow will we

tailor learning to varied needs,

interests, styles?

EHow will

students self-evaluate and reflect on their

learning?

RHow will we help

students rethink, rehearse, revise, and

refine?

Do your plans honor all of the multiple intelligences?

Aim for the Bottom of the Pyramid

Do your plans honor the best instructional strategies?

TheEngagement

Cube

Do your plans honor the best instructional strategies?

Designing the Instructional Unit:Outcomes Content

Instructional Strategies

Learning Product

Intelligence/Learning Style

Due Next Week

Curriculum:Critical Lessons for our Times

Curriculum:Critical Lessons for our Times