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 * 9:25 - 9:30 - Welcome & Good News**
 * West B? Have you figured out when to take it?
 * Fingerprints?

**9:30 - 10:00 - Finish Curriculum Discussion** What does this have to do with curriculum?
 * Curriculum - Latin roots - "race course" "flow" (as in a river) "run"

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Types of Curriculum


 * **Formal: The official, prescribed curriculum**
 * **Hidden: "unwritten rules" of interaction in a school system**
 * **Null: what is not taught; what is left out**
 * **Curriculum in Use: what is actually formally taught**
 * **Received Curriculum: what is actually learned**

10:00 - 10:15 - Review Quiz


10:25 - 10:50 - Discuss posted questions
-Should all levels of Bloom's taxonomy be covered throughout each grade level, or should specific grades, such as 1st-3rd, focus on certain skills, such as remembering and understanding? Grace -How do we determine what levels of Bloom's taxonomy is the most important to use in school/grade? DrieAnn -In the newer model based off the original Bloom's Taxonomy, the most basic level is remembering, which is defined as "retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long-term memory." However, many classrooms today still harness only the students' short-term memory and do not stimulate more than that (Ex: basic memorization of facts). Why do you think this is? How can we as future teachers change this common practice in order to more fully embody Bloom's Taxonomy? - Rachel -If a teacher has a low ability class, is it worth it or more effective to have to spend more time working through Bloom's taxonomy? - Jill -Is it possible for some students to skip certain steps even though they build off one another? For example in the Goldilocks adaptation a student could have no problem coming up with a song about the story in the creating step but may have trouble putting themselves in Goldilocks's shoes during the analyzing step. - Sarah - Why has Bloom's method withstood the test of time? Is his method the only one of it's kind or are their other systematic classifications that "define the nature of thinking" besides Bloom? What makes his classifications so accurate that teachers decide to apply this method? (The only reason I ask this is because I hadn't heard of it until this weekend) - Claire

10:50 - 11:05 - The power of a "thinking curriculum"

 * 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo2Wsn3d5gQ - Freedom Writers - First Day of Class
 * 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDq9o9j3-CU - Erin Gruwell
 * 3) [[file:thinking curriculum.pptx]]

11:55 - 12:05 - Closure
Housekeeping - > Prepare - Objectives > You should come to class with a basic understanding of what an objective/target is and the components of a learning objective.
 * Study the links on this page: