Curriculum Development workshop : Weekly Goals (week 10) term 2

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Weekly Goals (week 10) term 2

Reading and Writing

-Focus on Spelling and using Dictionary
- Challenge students
- renewed focus on benchmarks and grades
+ turning in assignment on time

Communication

- add to portfolio videos of roleplay
clarify portfolio formats
-technology
+learn/ explore
+ teach

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curriculum kitchen objectives

The objective of the workshop room is to:
1- Create a room where teachers can be creative and supply them with the tools needed.
2- Collaborate to create visual aids that can be used and maintained.
3- Share good ideas and document them.
4- Monitor the curriculum as it is being implemented.
5- Monitor and document the development of students’ portfolios.
6- Build a team of teachers who collaborate and share their knowledge and expertise to create meaningful lessons.
7- Use our collective knowledge and experience as teachers to grow and develop as educators.
8- Develop a paper- based and an electronic course portfolio.
9- Develop a paper- based and an electronic teacher portfolio.
10- Encourage experimental teaching and make teaching a journey of discovery.
11- Create and monitor classroom projects.
We like to call it “mission control” or the “curriculum kitchen,” not just a resource room.

12- Creating a blog for the curriculum development room.

Quotes On Learning

1-"reflecting on your teaching is an act of scholarship" - The Course Syllabus by Barbara J. Millis
2- "Courses that take away the sense of ownership kill one of the strongest elements in lasting learning."
3- "Learning is an active, constructive, contextual process." - The Course Syllabus by Barbara J.
4- Our deepest learning comes from inside out.
5- The only way you can engage someone is if you know them.
6- I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lily Tomlin
7- A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. Brad Henry
8- Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes
9- When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. Peter Drucker
10- Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia
11- All real education is the architecture of the soul. William Bennett
12- I am convinced that we, as teachers, must be activists. Valerie Strauss
13- A discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance.
14- Good teachers teach from the book. Excellent teachers teach from the heart.
15- Give students legacy and meaning: Build Intrapersonal Communications into your curriculum.
16- "How do we expect inspired learners if we do not have inspired teachers?" Dr. Pak Tee Ng
17- A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Horace Mann
18- Education is not received, it is achieved. Quote
19- Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France
20- Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.
21- Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein
22- EINSTEIN: Everything should be made simple as possible,but not simpler.
23- The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Alexandra K. Trenfor

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Weekly Goals (week 10) term 2

Reading and Writing

Communication

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