1. Week #2: A Synthesis of Learning
Critical Lessons in Curriculum

2. Purpose
We will be focusing on synthesizing what we have learned about the
knowledge, skills, attributes of quality teaching and apply this to what we know
about the 21st century classroom.
Critical Evidence:
Course Work: PLC Presentations (Movie Trailers, Glogs)
Course Participation Task #2: My Resume
Tech Task #2: Our Symbaloo
Reader Response #2: Integration Articles
Required Reading:
Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 4: How to Integrate the Curricula

3. The key to success is to begin with the end in
mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired
result

4. Curriculum:
The Future and You
 What kind of curriculum experience will you design?
 Will your curriculum address the essential
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understandings and learning outcomes of the program
of studies? And integrate cross curricular competencies?
Will your curriculum plan inspire, motivate, and engage
students?
Will your curriculum allow for collaboration?
Will your curriculum meet the needs of the 21st century
learner?
Will your curriculum demonstrate creativity and
innovation in teaching and learning?

7. Think
Big Rocks
Sand
Water

9. Culminating Projects

11. Unit Title:
Grade:
Subject, Topic:
Time:
Learning Target(s):
Students will understand that…
Students will know…
Formative Assesssments:
Learning Activities:
Accommodations:
Stage 1 – Desired Results
Critical Questions:
Students will be able to…
Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence
Summative Assessments:
Stage 3 – Learning Plan
High Yield Strategies:
Differentiation:

15. Retrieved from “What did you
do in school today?”, Canadian
Education Association, 2009

17. Secondary
Very Often
Often
Sometimes
Very Seldom
Elementary

18. 1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
Why are these
rated as less effective?
Do we abandon these or
just do them better?

19. 1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
Why are these
rated as less effective?
Do we abandon these or
just do them better?

20. Nel Noddings
Critical Lessons:
What our schools should teach?
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking
we used when we created them.
***Albert Einstein

21. Poll Everywhere:
Poll #1

22. Poll Everywhere:
Poll #2

23. 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.

24. Critical Lessons for our Times
 What are the critical lessons we need to teach our
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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?

25. Curriculum in the
st
21
Century