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How can we design curriculums to prepare our learner for the future? 💭💬

 Mapping ðŸ’­ðŸ’¬

** Only One Rule of Engagement! 

Mapping is A Solution for:

  1. Gain Information: from previous levels to avoid repetition “redundancy”

  2. Identify Gaps: we have some gaps. 

  3. Align standards: do not teach standards instead demonstrate how to master them

  4. Integrate Curriculum: must be a natural integration - not a forced one. 

  5. Upgrade for Timeliness

  6. Design for internal Coherence: “architect” analogy, who is the building for? Are you building your thoughts? 


Four Phase Implementation Model for Mapping

  1. Foundation: unpacking students needs; have a mission; Who are your learners? Have a clear reason embraced by your school and to respond to the population. 

    1. Pedagogy/Mission: To inform, personal, family, school, local context and global challenges.

    2. Department grade level decision making: curriculum and instructional design choices

    3. Teacher design choices k-12 subjects, interdisciplinary themes

Sources: Future forward learning goals. 

Learners as an agent of change

Clarifying the role of standards: they are proficiency targets not curriculum

Hazards of cherry-picking standards

Targets bundles of standard in a year long context 

Using standards


  1. Mapping Process: 

    1. Creating a year long context tool

    2. Connect standard to our work, central idea, theme,  connections

    3. Laying out standards deliberately across the year 

  2. Informing maps with assessment

  3. Upgrade maps to be responsive and timely

Google Classroom Tips ☝👀

 Google Classroom☝👀

10 Saving Tips For Google Classroom


  1. Tweak emails notifications: settings

  2. Invite guardians: people, invite

  3. Organize using topics: create topic

  4. Class materials: things students to have access to

  5. Easily assign to small groups: create, click differentiated students; Assignments assign to a couple of students.

  6. To-Do: Menu - To do - 

  7. Email students with two clicks: click people- select all  - actions email 

  8. Schedule agenda: announcement - schedule announcement

  9. Reuse post 



"Google's Hidden Tools: Uncover a World of Possibilities"

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17s7aXeJSyKL2phciyq20zUoPvNFffjP-oNun_foLWww/edit#slide=id.g332713cbd_0203 


  1. Google fonts

  2. Google tips 

  3. Where in the world

  4. Geoguessr 

  5. Smarty Pins 

  6. Chrome experiments 

  7. The peanut gallery 

  8. Google cultural institute 

  9. Chrome music lab

  10. Google guitar 

  11. Compose your own tune 

  12. Quick Drawn

  13. Made with code 





10 things you can do with google classroom 

  1. Holding area

  2. Evaluation template in private templates in Google Keep

  3. Post self-assessments: questions for I can statements 

  4. Allow others to join your classrooms as a co-teacher

  5. Emojis to code learning activities or coding with colors

  6. Use individual students view to send summary: student view - message - click send students work summary  

  7. Gradebook Easy!  Arrows and Settings

  8. Comment bank 

  9. Reuse Rubrics: just 2 criterias - duplicate criteria - name new criteria

  10. Originality Reports: assignments edit click originality report



Google based games


https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRTgsCfcrtYy0699Njf6NDkRMYm4vGYABOVjoyjqVcwEQ42J89fbP0Q6AyBJQxmQgYDH_QL4YFNhPOF/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.p

Excellence in Teaching Domains

 National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Objectives

  1. Teaching standards

  2. Grow students

  3. Effective virtual instruction

Module overview

  1. Identify needs

  2. Obtain new learning

  3. Develop understanding

  4. Apply

  5. Evaluate and Reflect

Identify the need

Success

Challenges 

Open chat box

Mic open

Google responses

Simpler presentations

Lessons that are shorter

Students engagement 

Meet social-emotional needs

Obtain new learning

-Instruction domain: Communicate learning objectives and sub objectives, reference to them teaching, self-assessing and in formative and summative checks. 

- Motivate students: gamification, interaction. 

- Feedback: high quality, video or screencastify, rubrics for them to know expectations, rubrics to work with partners. 





Environment Domain

  • High expectations

  • Students engage and proper behavior

  • Students learning

  • Building relationships

  • Show respect

Looks: follow norms, procedure 

Sounds: respect each other 

Feels: safe for every student   

Strategies:

  • Establish, communicate, and post norms

  • Model for expectations for success

  • Provide learning objectives 

  • Accessible students work 

  • Time management - agenda, refer to it - in break out rooms

  • Feedback in oral, written, padlet  and screencastify, office hours, make up time. 

  • Students pair/group work and learning reflections are shared 


Engaging students 

Strategies:

  • Surveys of comfort 

  • Reminders of rules and expectations - use private chat if necessary 

  • Provide order of the videos

  • Monitor completion of assignments

  • Rewards and also redirect by adjusting student privileges 

  • Provide engage tools  individual, groups, whole class; use breakout rooms 

  • Begin the class with agenda, expectations, objectives, norms 


Environment

Strategies:

  • Welcome by email and phone call. Expose procedures. 

  • Virtual orientation about tools and procedures

  • Share positive messages 

  • Weekly check-ins and office hours; reach out absent students. And monitors students work

  • Homepage (welcome video, contact info, calendar, syllabus)\

  • Clearly label quizzes, assignments and any other activity

  • Ensure material is accessible 

  • Apply new tools - practice new tools with students - ensure all knows 

  • Displays students work. And allow them to share work, new tools. 

  • Establish a system to transition from one activity or settlement to another 


Respectful culture

Strategies 

  • Include diversity of cultures and perspectives

  • Ensure and model digital citizenship, legal, ethical, safe behavior, ask students to model it

  • FERPA

  • Use a secure tool for students communication data, meet with family, 

  • Interactive lessons

  • Set expectations for forums and provide examples of participation

  • Provide time for students to interact and for social-emotional check-ins

  • Use private chat or email to redirect students 


SEL

  1. Social-emotional check-ins

  2. Students course experience

  3. Students goal settings

  4. Targeted help and tutoring
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