1. Topic #1Curriculum Then and NowEssential Question:What is your role as an instructional leader in respondingto curriculum/curricular changes?

2. How does this student experience the prescribed curriculum?How was this period in North American education similar tothe changes happening today? 3. 4 Corners:Which movie describes your feelings regardingeducation in Alberyta today? 4. How will we teach todays digitallearners? 5. PurposeWe will be focusing on synthesizing what we know about the Albertacurriculum and begin to apply this to what we know about the 21stcentury classroom and todays learners.Critical Evidence:Team Analysis of Inspiring Education PlanRequired Reading:Alberta Education. Inspiring Education.Alberta Education. Ministerial Order of Student Learning.Alberta Regional Consortia. Cross Curricular Competencies. 6. Symbols, Models and Frameworksof learning and schools Compare and Contrast Finish the sentence:Schools are like _______________________because________________________________________________Learning is like _______________________because________________________________________________A symbol of learning/schools today is _______________because_________________________________________Videoclips:Old Thinking: Another Brick in the WallTime for a new song/new thinking: Changing Education Paradigms 7. Inspiring Education: Your FutureTEAM C.I.A.Assignment: Team Analysis of Inspiring Education 8. We are the C.I.A. TeamThe Key Ingredients What is Curriculum? What is Instruction? What is Assessment? What is the most important as a teacher? What is the most important for the student? What is most important as an instructional leader? Lets Debate - todaysmeet.com/TEAM-CIA 9. It is the start of a new school year, and you havebeen assigned to teach a new grade with newsubjects. Where do you begin? 10. We are the C.I.A. TeamThe Curriculum Who decides what curriculum is taught? Why do we study the specific subjects we do, in the waywe do, and test them as we do? What influences how curriculum changes? Where do present schooling practices come from? To what questions are schools the answers? How do different societies educate their young? And what about back home in Alberta? 11. Retrieved from What did youdo in school today?, CanadianEducation Association, 2009 12. Curriculum: What should schoolsteach?Curriculum Experts: John Dewey Ralph Tyler Jerome Bruner John Franklin Bobbit Egerton Ryerson Paulo Freire Nel Noddings Eliott EisnerTimeline ActivityHow far have we progressed? 13. How have these incidentsimpacted curriculum? 14. Shifting Curricular ParadigmsTraditionalism Progressivism1. Where do you put constructivism and behaviorism?2. Where would you put junior high philosophy andmiddle school philosophy?3. Where would you put teacher directed curriculum andstudent centered curriculum?4. What have been the patterns in Canadas history?5. Where are we in Alberta? The rest of the World?6. Where would you put YOU?7. Thinking Differently for the Future: Sir Ken Robinsonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U 15. Curriculum in the 20th CenturyArtPhys-ed andHealthMathematicsSocialStudiesScienceLanguageArtsMusic 16. Curriculum in the 21st CenturyDigital andTechnologicalFluencyCommunicationCritical Thinking,Problem Solvingand DecisionMakingCreativity andInnovationSocial, Cultural,Global andEnvironmentalResponsibilityCollaborationand LeadershipLifelong Learning,PersonalManagement andWell-Being"We Are Not Preparing Children For Our Future, We arePreparing Them for Their Future***David Warlick 17. More Curriculum Questions How will you teach todays digital natives when theycome to you in your school? (Remember Bridger) What will children need to know 10 years from now (or25 years from now)? What defines if a student is successful? What isacademic success? Who should measure it? How oftenshould it be measured? Who should be involved in curriculum development?Who should evaluate curriculum? What do todays students say about the curriculumand how we instruct and assess them? 18. Unit Title: Grade:Subject, Topic: Time:Stage 1 Desired ResultsLearning Target(s):Students will understand thatCritical Questions:Students will know Students will be able toStage 2 Assessment EvidenceFormative Assesssments: Summative Assessments:Stage 3 Learning PlanLearning Activities: High Yield Strategies:Accommodations: Differentiation: 19. Curriculum:The Future and You What kind of curriculum experience will you design? Will your curriculum address the essentialunderstandings and learning outcomes of the programof studies? And integrate cross curricular competencies? Will your curriculum plan inspire, motivate, and engagestudents? Will your curriculum allow for collaboration? Will your curriculum meet the needs of the 21st centurylearner? Will your curriculum demonstrate creativity andinnovation in teaching and learning? 20. Topic #1Curriculum Then and NowEssential Question:What is your role as an instructional leader in respondingto curriculum/curricular changes?