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Chic FooteHelix Consulting
What to Cut? What to Keep? What to Create?
Curriculum With a Difference:
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Empowering Inspirational Learning Teams
Connected
Transparent
Cohesive
3. Practical – Making it Happen!
Depth of Understanding
• Start with the End in Mind
• Enduring and Future Focused
What structures and strategies are present in your school?How might you use these to begin mapping?
What would need to change?
How do these strategies align and inform school wide practice?
What’s the Difference?
Topic
• Photosynthesis• Chemical change
• World wars• Rules and Laws
• Research
• Novel Studies• Shakespeare
Concepts – Big Ideas
• Processes• Conversion• Function• Sustainability
• Conflict• Rights and Responsibilities• Force
• Reliability• Validity• Perspective• Persuasion
What’s the Difference?
Topic
• A focus subject • Limited by the narrow boundaries
• Knowledge Acquisition Base
• Narrow opportunity for application
• Transfer
Conceptual Understandings
• Abstract idea or Philosophy
• Generalisations based on inference
• Transferable across time and location
• Understanding reached through a chain of reasoning
• Prone to common misunderstandings
• Provides focus and purpose
• Can be subject specific and overarching
From To • Topic • Concept
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Albert Einstein
Getting Started
Deep, Conceptual Understanding
Transfer of Knowledge Skills and Values
Authentic Assessment Tasks
Criteria for Success
Problem Based/Inquiry Scenarios
Transferred to Life Situations
Past
Present
Future
• Quality Mapping……
• Identify a curriculum area
• With a familiar unit in mind:- Identify Possible Concepts
- Discuss and unpack to identify important related big ideas
- Consider other learning areas where there might be an alignment
• Brainstorm possible Essential Questions
• Develop an Authentic Transfer Goal
Group Task
Developing a Problem Based Scenario
• G Goal
• R Role
• A Audience
• S Scenario/Setting
• P Product
• S Standard (Criteria)
Authentic Assessment
Source: Understanidng by Design (UbD) Wiggins & McTighe. ASCD
Key ElementsUnpack Requirements
Ao’s/Standards
Understandings
Students will Understand that…..
.Knowledge
Students will Know that……
Skills – Critical7 Creative Thinking. Transfer
Will be able to …orLearning how to…
L4
L5
L6……
Unpacking Requirements ……
Key Map ElementsConcept Understandings
Students will Understand that…..
Essential Questions Transfer Goal
Assessment
L4
L5
L6……
What to Cut? What to Keep? What to Create?
Consider these Elements
Skills
CommunicateCollaborateConnectCreate Think Critically
Literacies
BasicInformationMediaGlobalNetworkDigital Citizenship
With thanks to Silvia Rosenthall Tolisano www.langwitches.com
Fluencies
MediaInfoDigital CitizenshipCollaborationSolutionCreativity
How will you embed these?
Realisations
Continuity
Alignment
Relevance
Student voice
Academic Vocabulary
Focus of skill development
Purposeful regular review
Connectivity
Community
Authentic
Relevant
Deep Understandings
• Knowledge / Content
• Skills (Dispositions)
• Assessment
Review, Revise, Renew – a continuous process of analysis and decision making
• What to Cut?
• What to Keep?
• What to Create
• Required • Designed
Curriculum Mapping Aligning New forms of Learning
What to Keep? What to Create?What to Cut?
Creating and Analysing – Technology Based
• Record• Review• Sort• Sift• Drill down• Analyse• Align• Upgrade
• Link resources• School Curriculum
Guides• Review and Reflections• Opportunity to
personalise Access• Communicate