Designing Modern Curriculum and Assessment
What do we cut? What do we keep? What do we create?
Date: April 3, 2019
Continental Breakfast: 8:30 AM to 9:00 PM
Session Timeframe: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
- Determining pedagogy to guide curriculum decision making:antiquated vs classical vs contemporary
- Upgrading curriculum maps at each level
- Modernizing content to be timely and relevant
- Engaging learners in the new literacies:
- digitally literate,
- media criticism
- media savvy
- global competence
- Creating a school clearinghouse of vetted tools, apps, and websites rich with possibilities for learners
- Upgrading by taking existing curriculum and strategically replacing the dated with the modern (participants can bring in their units and courses)
- Modernizing assessments to match the needs for future career, college and life readiness in our classroom planning
- Juggling the demands of current testing practices
Deliverables:
Drafts of revised and upgraded curriculum units
Drafts of revised scope and sequence
Drafting differentiated PD plans to bring digital and media literacy work our schools and colleagues
Essential Question: How do we prepare our learners for the future?
Date: April 25, 2018
Time: 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Who should attend: Teaching teams, curriculum and instruction leaders, department chairs, principals, district curriculum leadership, professional developers.
Focus:
- Determining pedagogy to guide curriculum decision making:antiquated vs classical vs contemporary
- Upgrading curriculum maps at each level
- Modernizing content to be timely and relevant
- Engaging learners in the new literacies:
- digitally literate,
- media criticism
- media savvy
- global competence
- Creating a school clearinghouse of vetted tools, apps, and websites rich with possibilities for learners
- Upgrading by taking existing curriculum and strategically replacing the dated with the modern (participants can bring in their units and courses)
- Modernizing assessments to match the needs for future career, college and life readiness in our classroom planning
- Juggling the demands of current testing practices
Deliverables:
Drafts of revised and upgraded curriculum units
Drafts of revised scope and sequence
Drafting differentiated PD plans to bring digital and media literacy work our schools and colleagues