221+-+Agenda+-+9.4.14

Today's Targets:

 * I can explain a complex definition for "curriculum"
 * I can access curriculum standards for my subject area and brainstorm learning activities aligned with a given standard.

9:25 - 9:40 - Welcome and Review (Mary)
 * Notetaker: Hailey
 * Photographer: Jenn
 * Reviewer: Audrey
 * Syllabus questions?

Syllabus recap: -Ed TPA - What is it? -Attendance - treat it as your teaching job - this means you need to let Dr. Case know if you absolutley can't make it.
 * Video, lesson plans, 40 pg. text
 * this means that we will be tested against good standards, and most of the ed candidates do well

9:40 - 10:00 - Professional Introductions

Tips and tricks for intro:
 * confidence
 * Professional appearance - name, looks
 * Share stories or pictures to help connect
 * Start with something related to your certification (language, drumming)
 * Make sure your topics and words are appropriate for age - your examples need to make sense to them

10:00 - 10:30 - Introduction to Curriculum
 * "Line up" - Assumptions about Curriculum - Do you agree or disagree with these statements?
 * 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


 * What is Curriculum?**
 * Content and skills taught
 * Structure for schooling
 * text and materials
 * learning goals
 * how the class room is oriented
 * **NOT JUST THE TEXT BOOK**


 * Types of Curriculum (whiteboard game)
 * Formal: P olicy that is stated by the school district, that dictates the content to be taught
 * Hidden: N orms and assumptions (like raising hands) that are practiced
 * Null: Content that is not supposed to be taught, or that is left out, creating bias or incomplete perspectives
 * Curriculum in Use: Content that is actually taught (end of the day, what actually happens)
 * Received Curriculum: What the students actually learn - not what they are "supposed" to learn
 * Curriculum as windows or mirrors: Does the content show the same world the students live in? Or does it show a different experience then they already have? - It should be both - students need to see themselves in their education so it will seem pertinent, and also need to see other possibilities so they can grow as students
 * Could it be a wall? - keeping them from going anywhere - fault of the content? (DAWN)
 * if it is too far from their experience, could it shut them down?

White board game: (good assessment for middle schoolers!) Write the type of curriculum!


 * Jenn focuses on chapters in her text book that help for the AP test - Curriculum in use
 * Morgan and tanzanian folk stories - window
 * Jurassic age is left out of geology - Null Curriculum
 * Students are confused by hidden curriculum on test - Received curriculum
 * Student stands up when teacher walks in - Hidden curriculum


 * Curriculum Sources:
 * text books
 * own experience!!! (You is smart)
 * Workbooks
 * Peers and colleagues (secret and awesome online secret things)
 * Media, novels, youtube,
 * Pacing guide - district or school documents to tell you where you should be in your curriculum (scope and sequence)
 * Curriculum standards:
 * learning outcomes/ learning goals
 * bench marks for learning
 * Where can you find these standards?
 * Common core,
 * State education standards
 * school district or school
 * national organizations with standards for specific disciplines,

10:30 - 10:40 - Break

10:40 - 11:35 - Curriculum Standards
 * Common Core discussion

Goal of common core:
 * college readiness - to make all students come to college with the same college preparedness
 * not Obama - big corporations, republican governors, and then later social justice and privatization movements. (most states signed on at state level)
 * Not from legislation at first, until it was tied to money from Obama administration
 * Basically it has become super entangled in politics and big money
 * implementation will be a huge challenge - assessing students and teachers on brand new curriculum would not work

__Standards Activity__ 1. Find the standards documents for your subject area.
 * Math and English - [|Common Core]
 * Science - [|Next Generation Science Standards]
 * Social Studies - [|WA state standards]
 * World Language - [|ACTFL standards]

2. Browse the standards for two grades/courses you could imagine teaching someday.

3. Copy two standards from each grade/course. [|Brainstorm several learning activities] students might do to make progress towards achieving these standards.

11:35 - 11:50 - Finish professional introductions

11:50 - 12:00 - Sample lesson
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12:00 - 12:05 - Closure
 * For Tuesday, Bloom's Taxonomy P.E.T. - Post a discussion question on the agenda.