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Curriculum Redesign – the N ext Steps. Prepared by the SAPDC Learning Facilitators Spring 2014. Today’s outcomes…. What will you take back t o your school?. Review of the Competencies Linkages to the Curriculum How do you plan to assess achievement of the competencies
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Curriculum Redesign – the Next Steps Prepared by the SAPDC Learning Facilitators Spring 2014
Today’s outcomes….What will you take back to your school? • Review of the Competencies • Linkages to the Curriculum • How do you plan to assess achievement of the competencies • Areas of professional development where we need to focus
Considering Alberta’s Curriculum Development Model Modern Curriculum Development has taken on a wider scope because our society has become increasingly complex; causing an increased need for curriculum to cease being a static product, and become a living process capable of adjusting to constantly changing times by being in continual contact with a broad segments of our society and a globalized world
Alberta’s Curriculum Development Model The nature of modern Curriculum Development is… that it comes together in bits and pieces. It’s the nature of the beast!
21st Century learners • Take as many Post It notes as you need • Write one thought on each Post It note • One expectation that you have for your own child, students in this district, students in this school, for an employee of yours • You may write more Post It Notes as you watch the video
High School EngagementA Student’s 10 Expectations • Around this room you see charts with the titles of each competency • Please put your Post It where you think it might fit • Use the Parking Lot if you are not sure
THE 10 MULTI-DISCIPLINARY COMPETENCIES • Know how to learn • Think critically • Identify and solve complex problems • Manage information • Innovate • Create opportunities • Apply multiple literacies • Demonstrate good communication skills • Demonstrate global and cultural understanding • Identify and apply career and life skills
Jigsaw Activity • Find the people who have the yellow tiles with your number (1 – 5) • There are matching numbers posted around the room – meet there • Take your Competency handouts, and a pen with you (and sticki notes if you prefer to use those) • You will read and discuss the competency that matches your numbered yellow tile • A guide for your discussion is on the next slide
Jigsaw and Expert Groups • Discuss: • What is currently happening in your school, in your class. • Implications for instruction role • Implications for assessment • Talk about a lesson, activity, or project you have done, or seen done at your school, or at another school, that meets your competency.
Check the number on your blue counter • Find the group who match your number. The numbers are posted around the room.
Time to Share • Please return to your tables • Take turns to share the information from your competencies
GALLERY WALK • As you go around the room, note some of the suggestions from your colleagues.
What will you take back to your school? • Review of the Competencies • Linkages to the Curriculum • Areas of professional development where we need to focus • How do you plan to assess achievement of the competencies