1. Week #2: A Synthesis of Learning
Curriculum – Now and Then

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. Symbols, Models and Frameworks
of learning and schools
 Compare and Contrast
 Finish the sentence:
Schools are like _______________________because
________________________________________________
Learning is like _______________________because
________________________________________________
A symbol of learning/schools today is _______________
because_________________________________________
Videoclips:
Old Thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_bOh9OIHbY
New Thinking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

15. Collaboration
and Leadership
Critical Thinking,
Problem Solving
and Decision
Making
Lifelong Learning,
Personal
Management and
Well-Being
Creativity and
Innovation
Digital and
Technological
Fluency
Communication
Social, Cultural, G
lobal and
Environmental
Responsibility

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

17. Curriculum Questions
 What is Curriculum?
 Who decides what curriculum is taught?
 Why do we study the specific subjects we do, in the
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way we do, and test them as we do?
What influences how curriculum changes?
Where do present schooling practices come from?
To What questions are schools the answers?
How do different societies educate their young?

18. Curriculum: Now and Then
Curriculum Experts:
 John Dewey
 Ralph Tyler
 Jerome Bruner
 John Franklin Bobbit
 Egerton Ryerson
 Paulo Freire
 Nel Noddings
 Eliott Eisner
Timeline Activity
How far have we progressed?

19. How have these incidents
impacted curriculum?
October Sky:
How does this student experience the prescribed curriculum?

20. More Curriculum Questions
 How will you teach todays digital natives when they
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come to you in middle school? (Remember Bridger)
What will children need to know 10 years from now (or
25 years from now)?
What defines if a student is successful? What is
academic success? Who should measure it? How often
should it be measured?
Who should be involved in curriculum development?
Who should evaluate curriculum?
What do today’s students say about the curriculum?

22. Secondary
Very Often
Often
Sometimes
Very Seldom
Elementary

23. 1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
Why are these
rated as less effective?
Do we abandon these or
just do them better?

24. 1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
Why are these
rated as less effective?
Do we abandon these or
just do them better?

25. 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 centered 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

27. Curriculum in the
st
21
Century