221+Agenda+-+9.5.13

Christina used **Direct Instruction.** This is an organized way of presenting key informantion. (Ex: powerpoint lecture)
 * 8:00 - 8:15 - Welcome & Review** (Christina)
 * Notetaker: Sam
 * Photographer: Miranda
 * Reviewer for next class: Alex


 * 8:15 - 9:00 - Introductions to your students**

9:15 - BREAK and switch rooms


 * 9:00 - 9:45 - Introduction to Curriculum **
 * What is curriculum?
 * Disired knowledge base in addition to what students do or create to show what they learned.

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 * Curriculum - Latin roots - "race course" "flow" (as in a river) "run"
 * What does this have to do with curriculum?
 * The learning of curriculum is like a race course in many ways: it's repetitive-you teach it over and over for years, or in the case of highschool teachers, multiple times a day. This is like going around and around the same track in a race.
 * Students can fall behind, like the man whose chariot flipped over. Some students do very well, like the top finishers in a race.
 * "Line up" - Assumptions about Curriculum
 * Curriculum should be grounded in information that every educated person should know.
 * Curriculum should be common across local schools and grades, but doesn't need to be common beyond the state level.
 * A national curriculum is critical to improving the education of students in the United States.
 * Teachers should be allowed to select their own curriculum based on their expertise and the needs and interests of their students.
 * Curriculum should be tailored to the individual student; one-size curriculum does not fit all.
 * Parents should have a major voice in determining school curriculum.
 * Curriculum should focus on developing critical thinking skills rather than covering specific information.
 * The "information age" demands a new approach to curriculum.
 * Teachers are under a professional obligation to teach the prescribed curriculum.
 * Standardized tests are a good way to measure student achievement related to prescribed curriculum.
 * many teachers have differing views of how curriculum should work.


 * Types of Curriculum
 * **Formal: it is written and official. The common core is an example.**
 * **Hidden: is not ever stated, but you need to know it to succeed in that system. Ex: waiting in line.**
 * **Null: What doesn't get taught, what is left out.**
 * **Curriculum in Use: what part of the formal curriculum you use**
 * **Received Curriculum: what students remember.**
 * **Curriculum as windows or mirrors: mirror curriculum allows students to see themselves in the curriculum, or identify with it. Window curriculum exposes students to concepts they are unfamiliar with.**
 * "Common Core"
 * Controversial common curriculum that all students must learn.
 * Some think that it helps everyone learn the same basic concepts, but others think that it is not individually tailored enough to students, or that it hurts students with disabilities.

> 2. Copy the EALRs for your subject area. > 3. Select two grade levels to review. Copy three example GLE's for each grade. How do they connect with the EALRs? > 4. Go the website of the professional organization representing your subject area. Find any standards/curriculum documentation. Read enough to get a good feel for the curriculum advocated by this group. How do these standards compare with the EALRs and GLEs for Washington? > 5. How do the state and national standards compare with the Common Core ([])? What relationship do you see between these three sources of curriculum?
 * Curriculum Project **
 * 1. Find the standards documents for your subject area. Open the appropriate PDF. Find and read the EALRs.

**9:45 - 9:55 -Break**


 * 9:55 - 10:30 - Objectives **


 * Writing an Objective
 * Tile Game
 * Communicating Learning Goals - []
 * Objectives Activity: Go to the lesson plan sites below. (Browse the objectives/targets for 5 lesson plans in your subject area. Copy the objectives onto a separate document (include the link to the plan). Evaluate the objective and rate it as poor, satisfactory, or exceptional. Explain why you chose that rating.
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 * Possible Formula -
 * SWBAT + action verb + specific content [+ format + degree]
 * I can
 * Practice using this text as subject matter - []
 * How do you know if students met the objective?


 * 10:30 - 10:40 - Closure**


 * To Do for next class:**
 * Read the syllabus (there will be a quiz of sorts on Tuesday)
 * Complete the Professional Engagement Task on Bloom's Taxonomy here http://gonzagateach.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Taxonomy
 * Post an issue, comment, or question on the agenda for next class.