Curriculum Day Term 2
Written on May 12, 2008 – 1:26 pm | by coburgmaths
Session 1: Reflection
- ‘reflection is crucial’
- looking at the vacancy information from job descriptions and where we are in relation to that?
- guiding principles
- building teacher capacity
- comic life self-reflection activity
- successes: use of ict to deliver curriculum
- challenges: less teacher centred/ more student centred but still having a high level of mathematical expectations.
- ideas: pbl,smaller packaged units of work, choice, essential questions framework, more thinking structures for students, TOC , online concept mapping
- threats: my skills as a curriculum designer, is my use of tech as skillful as it could be..am i getting the most out of my learning activities?
- TED Talks clips
- octopus
- distributed feet
- bipedal octopus
Session 2: Higher order thinking
- post it activity
- higher order thinking
- what is a thinking
- definition writing: What is a thinking oriented curriculum?
- sharing understandings
- Thinking skills
- quotes from some of the web sites given. Introduction to TOC
- My definition: A curriculum where learners are made aware of their own thinking (metacognition). They are encouraged to manage/reflect on their skills/strengths/weaknesses and use this as a structure/scaffold to support their own learning.
- useful presentations (PowerPoint):
- Self audit of thinking tools
- 30 questions for a thinking classroom
Session 3: Communication Model for 2009
responses
overview/feedback/outcome:
- using studywiz as the point of entry to the internet
Session 4: Mentor model
Tags: Curriculum day, Reflection, thinking oriented curriculum, TOC
