Designing Challenging Curriculum to Engage Secondary Students

Edmodo Group CS7476  Designing Challenging Curriculum to Engage Secondary Students
		John Long
		Learn new and unique ways to engage your students in the secondary setting. This presentation results from the collaboration of the classroom teacher and media specialist. This session will show how students are engaged through projects creating virtual pack backs, ePub form books, and other projects. The classroom teacher ties in the literature while the media specialist ties in the research skills. The end result is the development of critical thinking skills and independent student. Website shared on Edmodo Group: http://www.findingdulcinea.com/

FETC 2012

Thursday, January 26

Creating Challenge-Based Learning for Secondary Students

Presenters: John Long and Debbie Svec

Purpose: The focus of this session is on creating a senior project.  Students do a lot of understanding, starting in 9th grade, how to prepare for their own lives and careers. 

I. Research

A. Students naturally only scan the top and right side of a webpage
B. Encourage alternate search engines (not just Google)

II. Awareness

A. Helping students to understand copyright and when they can/cannot use others' materials

III. When to begin

A. Know when you want students to understand a certain concept and when they need to begin the process to be successful.

IV. Researching ideas

A. How to research a topic with more than one answer

    1. Finding topics that are not right or wrong
    2. Gives students the ownership over their position and direction  through the project

V. Advice

A. Start out small with a "big idea"
    1. Think about how to write authentic questions
B. Work within your school and with other teachers.
    1. Work with partners
    2. Plan together

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