t-527 fall 2009 back to cool how to teach for understanding
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T-527 Fall 2009
Back to Cool
How to TeachFor
Understanding
T-527 Fall 2009
Back to Cool
How to TeachFor
Understanding
T-527 Fall 2009
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills Framework
STUDENT OUTCOMES: Skills, knowledge, and expertise students should master to succeed in work and life in the 21st century.
SUPPORT SYSTEMS: Alignment of these elements creates the support system necessary to produce 21st century outcomes for today’s students.
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How to Teach for UnderstandingT-527 Fall 2009
Thursdays 1-4 PMInstructor: Stone Wiske
Teaching Fellow: Shane Tutweiler
Focus, Goals, Activities and Results, Technologies, Assessment, Logistics
Challenge = bridge the knowledge-action gap
Connecting educational researchwith practice
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Using theory
To design and analyze practice
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Focus
EducationalPrinciples
EducationalTechnologies
How can we deepen learning?
ReflectiveCommunity
Designs for Learning
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Course Goals
• Design curriculum that deepens meaningful learning
• Integrate new technologies to enhance teaching and learning for understanding
• Develop a collaborative, reflective
community of learners
Teaching for UnderstandingDilemmas, Principles, Design
CurriculumTeaching
AssessmentDiverse Learners and Settings
Collaborative CommunityTechnology Integration
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How can new technologies promoteteaching for understanding and
meaningful learning?
Make curriculum authentic and generative
Make goals clear and accessible
Support rich, varied performances
Enable ongoing assessment and revision
Foster reflective, collaborative communities of learners
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Process
EducationalPrinciples
EducationalTechnologies
How can we deepen our own learning?
ReflectiveCommunity
Designs for Learning
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Learning Activities and ResultsCurriculum as Collaborative Reflective Design
Read and thinkShare thinking/expertise with classmatesCollaborate with partnersApply readings and practical insights to
curriculum design or another projectWrite an analytic paper relating the
course ideas to your goals
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Using technologyfor collaboration, reflection, and
understanding
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Learning Technologies
Case Study: Dynamic Earth:http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword
=k12563&pageid=icb.page51520
Education with New Technologies Web site: http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ent/
Collaborative Curriculum Design Tool http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ccdt/
T527 Course Web site:http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k63236
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CollaborativeCurriculumDesignTool
An onlineinteractive workspace that
Scaffolds designOrganizes materialsSupports collaboration
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Use the CCDT for collaboration
Use the CCDT message board to communicate with your coach, collaborators, classmates
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Teaching for Understanding at Victoria School in Singapore
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Inbal Alon
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ShaneTutweiler
Webquest
Puay Yin Lim
Mapping Software
Key pals
Writing like an EducatorBy Andi Long
ConceptMapping Software
Online Coaching
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Planning your project
• Connect the course to your goals: content, learners, context
• Learn through applying your knowledge
• Critique theory from experience• Consider collaborating—with a teacher,
a classmate, your colleagues
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Ongoing Assessment Process
• Frequent • Clear criteria related to goals• Generating suggestions for
improvement• Shared responsibility
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Logistics• Review the syllabus on the course Web site
• Post/send a note about yourself by Sept. 1
• Begin to explore project possibilities—see guidelines for teacher partners on the course website
• Purchase the books you want and purchase the reading packet, or find readings on Reserve at Gutman Library
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Back to Cool
How to TeachFor
Understanding