Curriculum Framework Implementation

1. Curriculum Framework Implementation Outcomes Focused Education

2. Curriculum Framework Implementation Start with a focus on Meeting Student Needs. This requires a number of decisions: Information • Decide what Technology & Enterpriseoutcomes you wish students to demonstrate (Details are Ref: CF, pp. 294-300 & CEO Progress Map, p. 3-4). • Decide what key aspects of each of these outcomes you wish students to demonstrate (Ref: CEOProgress Map, pp. 9-10). Materials, Informationand Systemsprovide a vehicle/context for students to apply the components of theTechnology Process of investigating, devising, producing and evaluation, and... Even though Enterprise,Technology Skillsand Technology & Societyare explicitly spelt out in the CEO Progress Map (pp. 20-22)… in the learning and teaching programthey will typicallybe embedded and demonstrated by studentswithin the Materials, Information and Systems outcomes. They should not be demonstrated in isolation. These outcomes focus on the organisational abilities, technology skills, and attitudes students bring to the Technology Process. Technology Process Enterprise Materials Technology & Society Systems Technology Skills

3. Decide what Overarching Learning Area Outcomes you wish students to experience. • The CF makes direct and indirect links to the Technology and Enterprise Outcomes (pp. 316-317). • eg: Overarching Learning Outcomes (OLOs) 1 to 10has a direct link to the Technology Process. • In OLO 1 the use of language to communicate and negotiate ideas and solutions is an important part of the technology process. • eg: OLO 6 and 10 has a direct link to the Enterprise outcome. • Lateral thinking and creativity are key aspects also of the Enterprise outcome. • The successful demonstration by students of these Technology and Enterprise Outcomes provide evidence of the successful demonstration of those Overarching Learning Outcomes.

4. Decide what values you want students to demonstrate and what links you will make to other Learning Area Outcomes (CF provides examples ofLinksto other Learning Outcomes on pages 318 – 319 and Values is referenced on page 325). • eg: The Value:Self Acceptance and Respect of Self • 2.3 Ethical Behaviour and Responsibility. • 2.5 Initiative and Enterprise • are key aspects of the Enterprise outcome. • Links with other Learning Areas • eg:Technology and Enterprise links with English in the following ways: • The collection, evaluation and communication of information is important in the Technology Process, which relies primarily on skills and understandings developed in the English learning area, and • The outcomes in Technology and Enterprise are enhanced by the inclusion of technology-related language.

5. Curriculum Framework Implementation • Decide where the students are at in relation to the outcomes. What do they know, understand, value and can do? What do they want to know, understand, value and to do? Mind Mapping Quiz's pre-testing Think, pair & share brainstorming Keep records Call Out questioning Activate prior learning

6. Curriculum Framework Implementation • Given what they know, understand, value and can do … Decide what knowledge, skills and values students need to know to make progress and demonstrate successfully the key aspects of the outcomes. What content will you shed? what content will you keep? Process Skills problem-solving investigating devising negotiating co-operative learning constructive process metacognition creativity learning to learn action and reflection decision making knowledge production transference Social Skills behaving responsibly resolving conflict consensus building Summarising paraphrasing clarifying assertiveness interviews extending ideas accepting differences encouraging group maintenance equal participation ThinkingSkills defining classifying generalising inferring analysing cause & effect compare & contrast synthesising valuating prioritising sequencing inductive/deductive attributing Given that an outcomes focused approach emphasises the learning andteaching of transferable skills for life long learning, a shift in thinking is required, from an emphasis on content and the final product to a balanced approach of process and content. This requires the learning, teaching and assessment of: we need to teach these skills

7. Curriculum Framework Implementation Second Layer Decisions: Providing Learning Opportunities Devise a learning experiencesuitable for the student’s phase of development to enable them to demonstrate the outcomes and its key aspects. • So far, we have made decisions regarding: • what outcomes and what key aspects we wish the students to demonstrate? • what links we will make to the OLOs? • what links we will make to other LAOs and what values we wish the students to demonstrate? • we have determined where the students are at (what they know, understand, value and can do), and • what knowledge, skills and values they need to know in order to make progress? So we need to: • The CF also explains that learning experiences should connect with students’ existing knowledge, skills and values while extending and challenging their current ways of thinking and acting (CF pp. 310-313). • We need to provide students with an opportunity to critically review and reflect on their current understanding • eg: through strategies like ‘think, pair and share’,’brainstorming’ and ‘callout’. The CF articulates learning experiences most students should have at each phase of development (p.301-309) ... and as students progress through the developmental phases (K-12, Band 1-8) it is important that students are provided with challenges that entail increasing levels of complexity. The CF gives four developmental phases (p. 310-313): • Through explicit teaching, modelling, guidance and classroom practice • By providing real life experiences, and by devising • Open-ended tasks to give students the opportunity to negotiate the learning and assessment experiences with teachers. • Learning experiences should enable students to observe, select and use the actual processes, products, skills and values that are expected of them. Late Adolescence/Young Adulthood Typically Years 10 to 12 (Ref: p 5 Progress Map) Middle Childhood Typically Years 3 to 7 • Learning experiences should be meaningful and encourage both action and reflection on the part of the learner. Early Childhood Typically K to Year 3 • By providing astudent instruction sheet containing the task, outcomes, criteria, and its standards (rubrics). • Learning experiences should be motivating and their purpose clear to the student. Early AdolescenceTypically Years 7 to 10 • Providing opportunities for students to select the ways of solving their own challenges and problems • Allow them to adopt their preferred learning styles • Learning experiences should respect and accommodate differences between learners. • Through student self and peer assessment, student and teacher journals or diaries • Using co-operative learning strategies • Learning experiences should encourage students to learn both independently and collaboratively. • The school and the environment setting should be safe and conducive to effective learning.

8. Curriculum Framework Implementation Implement thelearning and teaching strategies. Gather Information: formative and summative assessment. Learning &TeachingStrategies • co-operative learning • graphic organisers • Blooms taxonomy • metacognition • multiple intelligences • performances • presentations • modelling • exhibitions & projects • brain-based learning • role-playing • surveying • video tapes/web quests • constructivist theory • Assessment Strategies • observation notes • anecdotal records • criteria checklist • Progress Map (p. 5, CEO Progress Map) • Rubrics (p. 18,CEO Progress Map) • student self assessment • peer assessment • open-ended tasks • student-teacher conferences • teacher made tests • portfolios • student logs and • teacher journals • negotiated evaluation • pen & paper test • standardised tests • performance assessment

9. Gather Information Communicating Information Information that has been gathered, analyzed and interpreted is then communicated to the student, teacher, parent or the wider community.. Analyse and Interpret information Communicate information In Analysing & Interpreting Information Gathered We need to consider if these sources of evidence demonstrate the successful achievement of the outcome … and with the aid of a Progress Map at what band or level of achievement … ? In Gathering Information We need to consider what sources of evidence do I have? Spiraling on again: Setting New Goals We then need to set new goals and undertake further learning and teaching taking into account student needs and their band or level of achievement of the outcome.

10. Analysing information about individual student learning Interpreting information about individual student learning Making on-balance judgments over a period of time In a range of contexts Gathering information about individual student achievement of outcomes consistency of achievement autonomy of achievement To make an on-balance judgment about achievement of outcomes Communicating and reporting information about individual student learning

11. Making an on balance judgmentwe must consider: • Variety of Assessment • Over a period of time • Multiple Kinds of Evidence • Multiple Assessors • Consistency of achievement • Autonomy (independent achievement) • Streamline from the Outcomes: (what key aspects, what knowledge, skills or values are demonstrated?)

12. Planning and Assessment in an Outcome Focused Approach First Layer Decisions:Meeting Student Needs • Decide what Technology & Enterpriseoutcomes you wish students to demonstrate. • Decide what key aspects of each of these outcomes you wish students to demonstrate. • Decide what Overarching Learning Area Outcomes you wish students to demonstrate. • Decide what values you want students to demonstrate and what links you will make to other Learning Area Outcomes. • Decide where the students are at in relation to the outcome. What do they know, understand, value and can do? What do they want to know, understand, value and to do? • Decide what knowledge, skills and values students need to know to make progress and demonstrate successfully the key aspects of the outcomes. Second Layer Decisions: Providing Learning Opportunities • Devise learning opportunities suitable for the student’s phase of development to enable them to demonstrate the outcomes and its key aspects. - Identify the range of learning, teaching and assessment strategies for students to demonstrate understanding (Formative Assessment & Metacognition). - Make the criteria for success explicit to students (Rubrics). Third Layer Decisions: Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategies • Implement learning and teaching opportunities. • Gather Information: Formative and summative assessment. How will the students be involved i.e. self assessment, peer assessment? What negotiation or consultation with students will occur? • Analyse and Interpret information: Making 'on-balance' judgements using a progress map to determine the students' stage of development. • Communicate information Spiralling on Again: Setting New Goals to Meet Student Needs

13. The changing role of assessment in education! • Metacognition • Students need an opportunity to self reflect on their own experience … an opportunity to think about there thinking. eg: How can I do it better next time? • Dewey said: ‘we do not learn from the experience but by processing the experience’. Next Slide Formative Assessment: Responding to student needs Formative assessment provides information about a student learning while students are ‘in the process of learning’. Formative assessment is a learning and teaching strategy. Valid feedback enables the student to take control of their learning by being able to focus on strengths and weaknesses, set realistic goals and identify the skills needed to improve learning and achieve the outcome.

14. Planning and Assessment in an Outcome Focused Approach Decisions:Meeting Student Needs • Decide what Technology & Enterpriseoutcomes you wish students to demonstrate. • Decide what key aspects of each of these outcomes you wish students to demonstrate. • Decide what Overarching Learning Area Outcomes you wish students to demonstrate. • Decide what values you want students to demonstrate and what links you will make to other Learning Area Outcomes. • Decide where the students are at in relation to the outcome. What do they know, understand, value and can do? What do they want to know, understand, value and to do? • Decide what knowledge, skills and values students need to know to make progress and demonstrate successfully the key aspects of the outcomes. Providing Learning Opportunities • Devise learning opportunities suitable for the student’s phase of development to enable them to demonstrate the outcomes and its key aspects. - Identify the range of learning, teaching and assessment strategies for students to demonstrate understanding (Formative Assessment & Metacognition). - Make the criteria for success explicit to students (Rubrics).

15. Next Slide • To develop a rubric, we can use the evidence guides of the CEO Progress Map • eg: to demonstrate the Information outcome at Band 3 students need “to consult a wider range of resources to locate information” . • The evidence guides can be rewritten to show different degrees of quality, understanding or proficiency when an aspect of the outcome is: • emerging, • developing or • demonstrated.

16. Planning and Assessment in an Outcome Focused Approach First Layer Decisions:Meeting Student Needs • Decide what Technology & Enterpriseoutcomes you wish students to demonstrate. • Decide what key aspects of each of these outcomes you wish students to demonstrate. • Decide what Overarching Learning Area Outcomes you wish students to demonstrate. • Decide what values you want students to demonstrate and what links you will make to other Learning Area Outcomes. • Decide where the students are at in relation to the outcome. What do they know, understand, value and can do? What do they want to know, understand, value and to do? • Decide what knowledge, skills and values students need to know to make progress and demonstrate successfully the key aspects of the outcomes. Providing Learning Opportunities • Devise learning opportunities suitable for the student’s phase of development to enable them to demonstrate the outcomes and its key aspects. - Identify the range of learning, teaching and assessment strategies for students to demonstrate understanding (Formative Assessment & Metacognition). - Make the criteria for success explicit to students (Rubrics). Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategies • Implement learning and teaching opportunities. • Gather Information: Formative and summative assessment. How will the students be involved i.e. self and/or peer assessment? What negotiation or consultation with students will occur? • Analyse and Interpret information: Making 'on-balance' judgements using a progress map to determine the students' stage of development. • Communicate information Spiralling on Again: Setting New Goals to Meet Student Needs