1. Week #2: A Synthesis of Learning
Curriculum in the 21st Century

2. Purpose: We will be focusing on synthesizing what we have
learned about the knowledge, skills, attributes of quality teaching
and apply this to what we know about the 21st century classroom.
Critical Evidence: Chapter Presentations, Movie Trailers, Chapter
Brochures, Course Participation Task #2: Our Symbaloo, Task #2:
Article Critiques
Required Reading:
Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 4: How to Integrate the Curricula
Review: Chapters 1, 2, 3,& 4: Beyond Monet
Movie Trailer Exemplar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6UDrXB1Zk

7. The Quality Teaching Document
defines the end….and the
beginning
Alberta Education:
http://education.alberta.ca/media/
311294/421.pdf

8. …and the future?

9. Understanding by Design….in real life
 A Wedding
 Building a house
 Planning a family
 Planting a garden
 Shoveling the driveway
 Planning a trip
 Raising children
 Getting a Master’s Degree

10. What is the 1st thing you do?

12. Think
Big Rocks
Sand
Water

14. Culminating Projects

17. Symbols, Models and Frameworks
of learning and schools
 Compare and Contrast
 Finish the sentence:
Schools are like _______________________because
________________________________________________
Learning is like _______________________because
________________________________________________
A symbol of learning/schools today is _______________
because_________________________________________
Videoclips:
Old Thinking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZnS8SEfcxM
New Thinking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

27. Curriculum Questions
 What is Curriculum?
 Who decides what curriculum is taught?
 Why do we study the specific subjects we do, in the
way we do, and test them as we do?
 What influences how curriculum changes?
 Where do present schooling practices come from?
 To What questions are schools the answers?
 How do different societies educate their young?

28. Curriculum: Now and Then
Curriculum Experts:
 John Dewey
 Ralph Tyler
 Jerome Bruner
 John Franklin Bobbit
 Egerton Ryerson
 Paulo Freire
 Nel Noddings
 Eliott Eisner
Timeline Activity
How far have we progressed?

29. Shifting “Curricular” Paradigms
Traditionalism Progressivism
1. Where do you put “constructivism” and “behaviorism”?
2. Where would you put “junior high philosophy” and
“middle school philosophy?
3. Where would you put “teacher directed curriculum” and
“student directed curriculum”?
4. What have been the patterns in Canada’s history?
5. Where are we in Alberta? The rest of the World?
6. Where would you put “YOU”?
7. Thinking Differently for the Future: Sir Ken Robinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

30. How have these incidents
impacted curriculum?
October Sky:
How does this student experience the prescribed curriculum?

31. More Curriculum Questions
 How will you teach todays digital natives when they
come to you in middle school? (Remember Bridger)
 What will children need to know 10 years from now (or
25 years from now)?
 What defines if a student is successful? What is
academic success? Who should measure it? How often
should it be measured?
 Who should be involved in curriculum development?
Who should evaluate curriculum?
 What do today’s students say about the curriculum?

32. Retrieved from “What did you
do in school today?”, Canadian
Education Association, 2009

34. Secondary
Very Often
Often
Sometimes
Very Seldom
Elementary

35. 1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
Why are these
rated as less effective?
Do we abandon these or
just do them better?

36. 1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
Why are these
rated as less effective?
Do we abandon these or
just do them better?

37. Are we teachers?
 Determining the learning destination
 Creating questions that foster inquiry
 Designing units, backwards
 Determining assessment evidence
 Recognizing the benefits of performance criteria
or are we designers?
Architects of instruction?
Facilitators of learning?

38. Unit Title: Grade:
Subject, Topic: Time:
Stage 1 – Desired Results
Learning Target(s): Critical Questions:
Students will understand that…
Students will know… Students will be able to…
Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence
Formative Assesssments: Summative Assessments:
Stage 3 – Learning Plan
Learning Activities: High Yield Strategies:
Accommodations: Differentiation:

42. Curriculum:
The Future and You
 What kind of curriculum experience will you design?
 Will your curriculum address the essential
understandings and learning outcomes of the program
of studies?
 Will your curriculum plan inspire, motivate, and
engage students?
 Will your curriculum allow for collaboration?
 Will your curriculum meet the needs of the 21st
century learner?
 Will your curriculum demonstrate creativity and
innovation in teaching and learning?

43. Nel Noddings
Critical Lessons:
What our schools should teach?
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used
when we created them.
Albert Einstein

44. Poll Everywhere:
Poll #1

45. Poll Everywhere:
Poll #2

46. Simulation: What if?
 Bad News: Due to years of ignoring the warnings of impeding
catastrophe due to global warming, the Earth is collapsing in a
series of extreme weather in the form of
blizzards, hurricanes, drought, floods, and destructive
tornadoes.
 Good News: You have been selected to join a blended team of
scientists, geologists, philosophers, medical personnel, and
yes, even politicians to venture to a new “Earth-like planet” to
set up our first interplanetary colony. We will have
approximately 10,000 people including families and children.
 Because of your expertise in curriculum foundation and
inquiry, you have been chosen as our education team to devise
a new curriculum that will be used for teaching the new
children of our first colonists, as well as all of the future
children that will arrive.
 Design a curriculum that is based on five key principles
(subjects, topics, structure, delivery, content, etc.) that will
honor our past, and guide our future success. Good luck
citizens – you have five minutes to accomplish your mission.

47. Critical Lessons for our Times
 What are the critical lessons we need to teach our
students today?
 Where is the place for teaching critical lessons within
our curriculum?
 What is the best way to do this?
 How do we treat this in an “Alberta” context?
 Why should we (if we should) integrate critical lessons
into our curriculum?

48. Curriculum in the 21st Century