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Beautiful Chaos: Incorporating Cross-Disciplinary
Project Based Learning in Division 3
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Reconceptualizing Teaching and Learning
When we opened MSS, we were INTENTIONAL in our planning, and COURAGEOUS in our efforts, to think about new possibilities for what teaching and learning might be…
Our “One Thing”
"Engaging in authentic learning
for a 21st century world.”
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Defining Your Context
1. Describe an unforgettable learning
experience. What made it memorable?
2. What do you love most about your grade
level, subject area or discipline?
3. What are your strengths as an educator
and how to they make you effective in the
classroom?
4. What are you excited about or concerned
about in regards to PBL?
Context is Everything
Unique to MSS - Book studies - Collaboration time - Blocked PBL time (1st year only) - PL intensives - Design Teams - Think Tank - Team Professional Growth Plan
Universal
- Alberta Program of Studies
- Ministerial Order on Student Learning which includes 21st Century Competency Development
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Project Planning
What is a project?
Curriculum Design Maps - have a sense of
where authentic connections between
disciplines exist & plan around them
Planning Questions - the process of
completing these questions as a team is
essential to the process
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Some Successful Examples
Shark Lake - Gr 9 Science & Math
Sharks Bio-Lab - Gr 9 Science & LA
Hero in My Eyes - Gr 8 LA & Art
SMAK-G Chocolate - Gr 8 LA, Math, Science
Words and Actions to Live By - Gr 9 LA &
Health
Challenges to Implementing PBL
in Div 3
Division 3 timetable
Subject
Specialization vs
Common Core
Curriculum Content
TIME
Highlight common
blocks of time
Specialists have in-
depth understanding of
curriculum - use it!
Projects should involve
many outcomes
Project is the MEAL - not
the dessert
Let’s Get Planning!
Take 20 minutes to start the planning
process
Decide on a curricular area of focus
Look through the sample booklets
Start working through the planning questions
1. Focused on “one thing” (shared vision)
2. Developing a theoretical framework or
teaching theory of action
3. Using educational research to inform
practice
4. Building leadership capacity
5. Engaging others
6. Being reflective
7. Ensuring collective responsibility
8. Supporting teacher professionalism
9. Being disciplined and relentless
Moving Forward…
It’s not change itself that takes time. Sometimes, it is having the courage to make the decision to change that really takes the time.
So where and how do we begin?
MSS Sharing
MSS will be working with ERLC in the 2014-2015 school
year.
October 16, 2014 Observing Cross-Disciplinary Projects and
Collective Inquiry at Michael Strembitsky School
October 21, 2014 Action Institutes at Michael Strembitsky
School for Kindergarten and Division 1
October 22, 2014 Action Institutes at Michael Strembitsky
School for Division 2
October 23, 2014 Action Institutes at Michael Strembitsky
School for Division 3
February 12, 2014 Reconceptualizing Teaching and Learning
at Michael Strembitsky School – Demonstration Visit
Helpful Online Resources
Buck Institute for Education:
http://bie.org/
Edutopia:
http://www.edutopia.org/
High Tech High:
http://www.hightechhigh.org/
THANK YOU!
Feel free to contact us:
Twitter: @SciGeekJulie
Google+: Julie Arsenault
Our School Website:
http://michaelstrembitsky.epsb.ca/
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Curriculum Design Map Grade 9 Science (Biodiversity) and Language Arts
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GMO - mentors
Hero Stories
Sample Timetable - used for Grade 8
multi-disciplinary project planning last
year
Example: Curriculum Outcomes addressed
during Grade 9 Science-Math Project