Week #4: The End is Only the Beginning –

Critical Lessons for New Teachers

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Critical Evidence for the Week & Beyond

Midterm Exam (Today) Synthesis Paper/Planning Organizers (Friday) Course Participation Task: Self Evaluation Rubric (Friday) Tech Task: Word Cloud Reader Response: Adding to our Shelfari Library Student Showcase/Superintendent’s Symposium (Friday) Culminating Project (Exit Job Interview/Teaching Metaphor/Portfolio

(linked on Google Site) (Feb 4th or 5th) Integrated Unit Plan (due for exit interview – Feb. 4/5th)

NOTE: All work must be submitted on our Google Site by

Friday, Feb. 7th by 4:00 p.m. Practicum Final Evaluation TQS and Interim Teacher Certificate Teaching Degree

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Questions….and more questions What is your end? How do we get “from here to there”? What are the essential understandings/Big ideas you have

acquired from the Middle Years Program? What do you still need to learn to secure “your end”? What are your essential questions? What criteria will the principals use for hiring? What did you learn at Career Fair? What did you learn about yourself? What questions did you ask at the Career Fair? What questions can you ask the Superintendents? What

evidence of your knowledge/skills will you show at our Showcase?

How can you find out about the school divisions?

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Tech Task #4: Word Clouds(Wordle or Tagxedo)

Do one of the following this week: Make a word cloud from your top school division’s

website to prepare you for the Symposium Make a word cloud from the key topic in the Program of

Studies that you will be teaching and insert into your integrated unit plan (Big Rocks, Academic Vocabulary)

Make a word cloud of your resume to determine your most important skills & abilities, and insert it into your portfolio

Make a word cloud of your Synthesis Paper and copy it into your document

Poll Everywhere:Test Sample

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ENGAGEMENTMATTERS

ButNot

As muchAs

EMPOWERING YOUR

STUDENTS

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Are you ready…..for change?Are you ready…..to change? Again?

Leadership Lessons

Shifting “Curricular” Paradigms

Traditionalism Progressivism1. 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? Where are

“YOU”?6. Thinking Differently for the Future: Sir Ken Robinson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

Nel Noddings Critical Lessons

What should our schools teach?

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

***Albert Einstein

Who Loves Math?

Why Math Instruction is Unnecessary

Poll Everywhere:Poll #1

Poll Everywhere:Poll #2

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 ten minutes to accomplish your mission.

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?

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We need to ask more WHAT IF, WHY and HOW questions vs. When, Where & What questions