This document discusses curriculum, both historically and with regards to current changes. It addresses how curriculum has evolved over time from traditional to progressive models. It also examines key figures that influenced curriculum development and how societies approach educating youth. Additionally, it compares curriculum subjects between the 20th and 21st centuries. Finally, it considers questions around how teachers can design curriculum to meet the needs of today's digital learners and address 21st century skills.

1. Topic #1
Curriculum – Then and Now
Essential Question:
What is your role as an instructional leader in responding
to curriculum/curricular changes?

2. How does this student experience the prescribed curriculum?
How was this period in North American education similar to
the changes happening today?

3. 4 Corners:
Which movie describes your “feelings” regarding
education in Alberyta today?

4. How will we teach today’s digital
learners?

5. Purpose
We will be focusing on synthesizing what we know about the Alberta
curriculum and begin to apply this to what we know about the 21st
century classroom and today’s learners.
Critical Evidence:
Team Analysis of Inspiring Education Plan
Required Reading:
Alberta Education. Inspiring Education.
Alberta Education. Ministerial Order of Student Learning.
Alberta Regional Consortia. Cross Curricular Competencies.

6. Symbols, Models and Frameworks
of learning and schools
 Compare and Contrast
 Finish the sentence:
Schools are like _______________________because
________________________________________________
Learning is like _______________________because
________________________________________________
A symbol of learning/schools today is _______________
because_________________________________________
Videoclips:
Old Thinking: Another Brick in the Wall
Time for a “new” song/new thinking: Changing Education Paradigms

16. Inspiring Education: Your Future
TEAM C.I.A.
Assignment: Team Analysis of Inspiring Education

17. We are the C.I.A. Team
The Key Ingredients
 What is Curriculum?
 What is Instruction?
 What is Assessment?
 What is the most important as a teacher?
 What is the most important for the student?
 What is most important as an instructional leader?
 Let’s Debate - todaysmeet.com/TEAM-CIA

18. It is the start of a new school year, and you have
been assigned to teach a new grade with new
subjects. Where do you begin?

19. We are the C.I.A. Team
The Curriculum
 Who decides what curriculum is taught?
 Why do we study the specific subjects we do, in the way
we do, and test them as we do?
 What influences how curriculum changes?
 Where do present schooling practices come from?
 To what questions are schools the answers?
 How do different societies educate their young?
 And what about back home in Alberta?

23. Retrieved from “What did you
do in school today?”, Canadian
Education Association, 2009

24. Curriculum: What should schools
teach?
Curriculum Experts:
 John Dewey
 Ralph Tyler
 Jerome Bruner
 John Franklin Bobbit
 Egerton Ryerson
 Paulo Freire
 Nel Noddings
 Eliott Eisner
Timeline Activity
How far have we progressed?

25. How have these incidents
impacted curriculum?

26. Shifting “Curricular” Paradigms
Traditionalism Progressivism
1. 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 centered curriculum”?
4. What have been the patterns in Canada’s history?
5. Where are we in Alberta? The rest of the World?
6. Where would you put “YOU”?
7. Thinking Differently for the Future: Sir Ken Robinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

27. Curriculum in the 20th Century
Art
Phys-ed and
Health
Mathematics
Social
Studies
Science
Language
Arts
Music

28. Curriculum in the 21st Century
Digital and
Technological
Fluency
Communication
Critical Thinking,
Problem Solving
and Decision
Making
Creativity and
Innovation
Social, Cultural,
Global and
Environmental
Responsibility
Collaboration
and Leadership
Lifelong Learning,
Personal
Management and
Well-Being
"We Are Not Preparing Children For Our Future, We are
Preparing Them for Their Future”
***David Warlick

29. More Curriculum Questions
 How will you teach todays digital natives when they
come to you in your school? (Remember Bridger)
 What will children need to know 10 years from now (or
25 years from now)?
 What defines if a student is successful? What is
academic success? Who should measure it? How often
should it be measured?
 Who should be involved in curriculum development?
Who should evaluate curriculum?
 What do today’s students say about the curriculum
and how we instruct and assess them?

30. Unit Title: Grade:
Subject, Topic: Time:
Stage 1 – Desired Results
Learning Target(s):
Students will understand that…
Critical Questions:
Students will know… Students will be able to…
Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence
Formative Assesssments: Summative Assessments:
Stage 3 – Learning Plan
Learning Activities: High Yield Strategies:
Accommodations: Differentiation:

31. Curriculum:
The Future and You
 What kind of curriculum experience will you design?
 Will your curriculum address the essential
understandings and learning outcomes of the program
of studies? And integrate cross curricular competencies?
 Will your curriculum plan inspire, motivate, and engage
students?
 Will your curriculum allow for collaboration?
 Will your curriculum meet the needs of the 21st century
learner?
 Will your curriculum demonstrate creativity and
innovation in teaching and learning?

32. Topic #1
Curriculum – Then and Now
Essential Question:
What is your role as an instructional leader in responding
to curriculum/curricular changes?