Curriculum Workshop Day 2       OVERVIEW POWERPOINT

Engaged- Learner Model

• Rules of Thumb for TAKS & TEKS

Level of Thinking

• Bloom's Taxonomy
• Bloom's Verbs
• Bloom's Processing (Thinking Level) Verbs

Project-base Learning:  Cooperative Learning Roles

Depth of Content

• Higher Complexity moves from facts to concepts for enduring understanding
• Critical, Conceptual,  and Creative Thinking
  • Critical -- Ability to deal with abstractions; for discovering patterns and meanings, system thinking: to see the "big picture" of interrelationships, risk takers, collaboration skills

Traditional Curriculum ... is topic based and compartmentalized ----> Concept-based curriculum that is cross-curricular.    Structure of Knowledge according to Lynn Erickson

                              POWERPOINT

Six Life Skills

• STRANDS

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." — Theodore Roosevelt, 19th/20th century American adventurer and politician, Nobel Prize-winning U.S. president

Three Tiers of Teacher Competency

• Staff Development
• Role of Brain Research
• Internet Tools
• Cooperative Discipline
• Engaged- Learner Model

Zoo Trip

Modes

• Methods & Learning Styles

• Memory

• Processing

• Intelligences

• Personalities

• Collaborative Grouping

Brain Research

• Mylanation

• Maturity

• Age Appropriate

• Methods & Strategies

• Evaluation

  • Rubrics --Online Builders & Tutorials

    • Example

    • Example

    • Example

  • Internet Tools

  • Project-base Learning
• SKILLS
  • Cooperative Learning Student's Role
    • True Colors
    • Cooperative Learning Teacher's Role
      • Online Resources for Collaborative Learning
      • What is Collaborative Learning?
      • WHY A COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM?
      • Cooperative Learning Model
  • Information Skills
  • Engaged- Learner Model

  • Global Projects

Global Projects:  This assignment will specifically use each of the research skills to report on "Best Practices" for Teaching & Learning.  Research "cutting edge", and "research-based" practices of delivery.  Categorize your examples and select those that will assist  your action plan in your designated grade level.  Design a product (your choice) to report and communicate what you have found to our group on Day 3.

Building a Best Practices Rubric:

Examples

• http://www.historyalive.com/Administrator/approach.asp

• INTERACTIVE LESSON PLANS

• Give students multi-modal interaction with the curriculum

• Requires higher-order thinking skills

Work on for Day 3

• Assignment:  Create an Action Plan for your trainees. Use the following check list.

• Identify the information, topics, concepts, principals your trainees will need to share the vision of this grant.  Incorporate this information into a training session. 

• Give trainees "concrete" experiences by planning appropriate activities.

• Design a research project for trainees to complete that will assist their "transition" to global thinking.

• Share your research project with them.

• Build a training tool (PowerPoint, Web Page, Handouts, Poster, Display, Student Project to demonstrate.

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