Sunday, January 29, 2012

Curriculum 21: Making the Transition in Our School

by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Edmodo Group FS6696

Continuing and deepening the themes from her keynote, Heidi asks participants to bring their laptops to experience Dr. Jacobs' new professional development model on HOW TO bring colleagues both locally and globally into professional learning communities focused on three essential curricular questions: What to keep? What to cut? What to create? Examine web 2.0 strategies for helping faculties REPLACE dated curriculum and instruction. Determine how to globalize the curriculum with strategic interactions with worldwide classroom Skype or Google plus sessions. Practice using new web 2.0 applications for PD in you school as an administrator Walk through the Upgrading Model for assessment design.


Excellent site!

My random notes. Check out the above site, especially!

Implementing in schools:

Quality Upgrades
  • start with a Unit of study
  • deepen examination of content
  • engender INDEPENDENCE
  • reflect quality in student products/performanc

    On average, 40% of achievement test errors are READING errors

Everyone agrees to 1 upgrade (school-wide)
meet the enemy: #2 pencil & standardized testing


3 types of pedagogue:
  • antiquated (devoid of relationship)
  • classical - timeless (about the relationship between students and teacher)
  • self-navigation (teacher role: coach, co-learner, classical -- all 3)
Twitter: WW2 Tweets from 1940
@RealTimeWWII

The NEW Common Core Standards are an Opportunity to Upgrade




Strategy: combine the use of wordle and worldmapper.
Also use visual thesauraus






Global Competence Matrix - ways to upgrade in the classroom

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