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Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
Table of Contents
Objectives
“The Machine is Using Us” (video)
Student Directed Instruction
Now…Do This
Creating Customized Curriculum
Steps for Curriculum Development
Lesson Overview
WEB 2.0
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Services Topeka Public Schools
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
Objectives
• Reflect on what what we do.
• Consider how we might use other resources.
• Challenge our own thinking.
• Core values or belief statements.
• Are we willing?
• Empower others.
THE MACHINE IS USING US
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Technology•Information•Automation
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Shifting the responsibility for learning decisions from teacher to student
Allowing students to access a world of information
Utilizing authentic audiences
Using Technology to Bolster Student-Directed Instruction
• Students become the source of instruction
• Teacher facilitates student creativity
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Effective Staff Development:
How Is This Achieved?
• Provides teachers with tools to implement engaging and challenging learning opportunities for students.
• Stresses that skillful instruction requires multiple approaches to teaching.
• Teaches how to group students for optimal learning.
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Using technology to supplement textbooks and other printed resources
Student-Directed Instruction (cont.)
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Question:What are some elements of a quality lesson?
• Discuss with your group and make a short list
• Time: 5 minutes
• Create a large group list
Small Group ActivityActivity One
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Standards-based
Relevance
Engages students
Allows for reflection
Assessment
Promotes problem-solving
Requires critical thinking
Utilizes technology(information/communication)
Does Your List Include?
NOW. . .DO THIS
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Services Topeka Public Schools
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
Question:
What skills and interests do students demonstrate outside of school that can be brought into the classroom?
• Individually, make a list
• Time: 5 minutes
Small Group ActivityActivity Two
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Personal computing computer games
Instant messaging
Cell phone Text messaging
Ipod
DVD
Playstation/Xbox
Internet internet search chatrooms/discussion boards purchasing goods
Digital still/video cameras
Can you add to this list?
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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.
CREATING CUSTOMIZEDCURRICULUM
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Services Topeka Public Schools
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
Richard Baraniuk: Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning
Richard Baraniuk is founder of Connexions, a free, open-source, global clearinghouse of course materials. People in some 200 countries tap into its vast store of texts on everything from engineering to ornithology to music, adapting the content as they see fit
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
Creative Commons
Light and Matter
Open Source Courseware
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
Utilizing technologyCourse developmentCreating engaging lesson plansPeer collaboration Bottom-up approach
Building Capacity with Staff
STEPS FOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Services Topeka Public Schools
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
1. Identify target audience.
Elementary
Middle/High School students
Special needs students
Advanced Placement students
Adult Education students
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
2. Determine how you want to use your curriculum?
A. An entire course
B. Thematic units
C. Teacher professional development
D. Interdisciplinary curriculum
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3. Outline.
What are the components the curriculum will contain?
What resources will the curriculum need to meet desired goals?
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
4. Create, Mix, Rip, Burn Putting together the curriculum and other resource materials/creating interactive assignments and implementing exciting student resources.
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
Open Source Courseware
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Course Assembly (cont.)
Word processing/creating content
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
Course Assembly (cont.)
PowerPoint/Curriculum presentation
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
Course Assembly (cont.)
Assorted media/student engagement
• Hope Street Project with Israel• Sightseeing in Topeka Project
with Korea
Examples:
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Course Assembly (cont.)
Authentic feedback
•Marshall Stelzriede's Wartime Story•War on Their Minds•Sgt. William Heller's
Internet allows us to communicate with live, primary sources
Examples:
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Course Assembly (cont.)
Formative assessments
• Self-checks/self-quizzes• Reflection questions• Multiple drafts of products• Posts to blogs
Both student and teacher track progress
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
Course Assembly (cont.)
Summative assessments
• Projects• Unit test• Midterm• Final• State assessments
Understanding of learning objective is measured
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World History
Biology
Curriculum Examples
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Why Create Your Own?
Cost
Ownership
Customized Instruction
Best Practices
Cross-Curricular
Student Engaging
Easily Modified
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
Conducting research on State Indicator to present to class.
Dividing group responsibilities.
Presenting information in a dynamic and interesting formats
• visual (PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, Microsoft Word, posters, pictures)
• audio (speeches, eyewitness accounts, first-hand news reports).
Each Student Group Will Be Responsible for the Following:
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Facts
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
Facts
Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools
Facts
PAY ATTENTION
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