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

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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

E-mail

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

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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?

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4. Create, Mix, Rip, Burn Putting together the curriculum and other resource materials/creating interactive assignments and implementing exciting student resources.

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Open Source Courseware

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Course Assembly (cont.)

Word processing/creating content

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Course Assembly (cont.)

PowerPoint/Curriculum presentation

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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

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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

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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

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Facts

Bill Bagshaw | General Director of Student Support ServicesTopeka Public Schools

Facts

PAY ATTENTION

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