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BC Ministry of Education Update
- 1. BC Ministry of Education Update February 2013 Tim Winkelmans E-Learning Changing Education
- 3. K-12 Enrolments (Headcounts) 90,000 80,000 70,000 60,000 50,000 Head Count 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000 0 2006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009 2009/2010 2010/2011 2011/2012
- 4. K-9 DL FTE Counts 6000 5000 4000 PUBLIC 3000 INDEPENDENT Linear (PUBLIC) Linear (INDEPENDENT) 2000 1000 0 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12
- 5. 10-12 DL FTE Counts 2,000. 1,800. 1,600. 1,400. 1,200. Public 1,000. Independent Poly. (Public) 800. Poly. (Independent) 600. 400. 200. 0. 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12
- 6. Quality Review Summary 4 schools participated Strong collegial support, enthusiastic teachers Many schools utilize embedded teachers to support learners in neighbourhood schools Creative uses of online tools and digital media that support personalized learning Strong support for learners with special needs Many DL schools encompass a diversity of District programs under one umbrella
- 7. CEET • Community members: 1705 • Site visits to date: 33,601 • Unique visitors: 13,204 • Visits from BC : 22,746 • Returning visitors: 20,392 •% of visitors visiting more than 25 times: 30% • Average duration of visits: 4:35 • Number of Groups in CEET: 35 • Member sponsored events last year: 369
- 8. CEET iTunes U iTunes U
- 9. CEET Meets 2012/13 1. M2O: An Introduction to Moodle 2.0 2. Web Tools for the Common Core 8. Teaching at a distance Classroom 9. The 8 : 1 Program 3. Moving Educational Traditions for Open 10. Moviestorm Made Easy Practices 11. Building Community 4. Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social 12. Designing Effective Online Learning Media 13. How to Develop Digital Literacy Skills 5. The Secret Language of QRs 14. Global Collaborative Projects 6. Ensuring Quality in Online Learning 7. Creating an Open Classroom
- 10. Virtual Worlds Objects VirtualBC Island WCQuest Explore SerfnTurf HUB StoryForge Sandbox A louer
- 11. Blended Learning Wiki All Pages Welcome What is Blended Learning? Latest News Research Sooke Case Study Arrow Lakes Case Study Coquitlam Case Study Langley Case Study Navigate-NIDES Case Study SCIDES Case Study Surrey Case Study http://k12blendedlearning.wikispaces.com/
- 12. Digital Literacy Framework Digital Literacy is the interest, attitude and ability of individuals to appropriately use digital technology and communication tools to access, manage, integrate, analyze and evaluate information, construct new knowledge, create and communicate with others in order to participate effectively in society. BC’s Digital Literacy Standards • Research and Information Fluency • Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making • Creativity and Innovation • Digital Citizenship • Communication and Collaboration • Technology Operations and Concepts
- 14. Educated Curriculum Assessment Assessment Competencies Competencies Graduation Graduation Citizen Requirements Requirements Communicating Trades/Skills Reading Student Aboriginal Student Learning Supports Education Communicating Trades/Skills Reading Student Aboriginal Student Learning Supports Education
- 15. Status of Curriculum Design and Development L ANGUAGE ARTS SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES A R T S E D U C AT I O N M AT H E M AT I C S H E A LT H / P E L ANGUAGE LE ARNING CAREER APPLIED SKILLS
- 16. Guiding Principles for Curriculum Design Make curriculum more flexible to better enable teachers to innovate and personalize learning. Reduce the prescriptive nature of current curricula while ensuring a solid focus on essential learning. Focus new curricula on higher order learning, giving emphasis to the key concepts and enduring understandings (big ideas) that students need to succeed in their education and their lives.
- 17. Guiding Principles for Curriculum Design Make explicit the cross-curricular competencies that support life-long learning. Respect the inherent logic and unique nature of the disciplines while supporting efforts to develop cross-curricular units. Integrate Aboriginal worldviews and knowledge. Develop assessment and evaluation programs that align with the changed emphases in curriculum.
- 20. Proposed Competencies* Three cross-curricular competencies, each with a number of sub-domains: Thinking Competency Critical thinking Creative thinking Reflective thinking Personal and Social Competency Positive personal and cultural identity Personal awareness and responsibility Social awareness and responsibility Communication Competency Use of language and symbols Digital literacy *Under review
- 21. What’s next? 1. Definitions Posted paper for feedback Further discussion with partner groups and community 2. Field Development Incorporating into curriculum design Aspect development Developing continua, sample tasks, exemplars & other resources to support assessment & communicating student learning Ongoing field development and review
- 22. Communicating Student Learning Directions: Limited or no use of letter grades Ongoing in nature Focus on competencies Current work: Review of other jurisdictions Review of promising practices in BC Get connected/share what you are doing
- 23. Further Reading Transforming BC Curriculum http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/transforming_curriculum.php
- 25. Process Next Steps April
- 26. Observations • Positive feedback about the process • Lots of consistencies across the regions Grade 10 should not be part of graduation years Provincial exams are not felt appropriate for that grade level Competencies to play a key role in graduation Directions/suggestions for Curriculum
- 27. Key Themes • Students Responsible for their own learning • Early Grade Implications • Flexibility • Community Connections/Career Preparation • Curriculum • Assessment • Communicating Student Learning
- 28. Further Reading http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/graduation/ Kootenay Region (PDF) Fraser Valley Region (PDF) Metro Region (PDF) Northern Region (PDF) Thompson-Okanagan Region (PDF) Vancouver Island Region (PDF) British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (PDF) BC School District CE Directors Association (PDF) First Nations Steering Committee (PDF) Miscellaneous Submissions (PDF) View the full Graduation Requirements Report (PDF, 16MB)
- 29. Skills and Technical Training
- 30. • Targets: • Policy and Programs – Increase graduates who – Multiple pathways to go onto post-sec skills graduation and career and technical training preparation • 50% in three years • More choice • 4,000 to 6,000 • More dual credit – Increase # of Gr 10-12 – Accelerate transition to students in secondary workforce applied skills , etc. – Engage industry in • 33% to 50% in three years requirements • 40,000 to 60,000
- 31. • Perception • System Capacity – Elevate the profile of – Extend partnerships trades careers between SDs, PSIs and • Target students and industry parents • shared • Support existing awareness facilities, equipment, staff projects – Increase # of teachers – YES2IT, Discover capable of delivering Trades, JobsFest, Skills Canada trades and technical – Increase knowledge about training job prospects and – Create district compensation accountabilities re targets – Strengthen career advising • Better education and career planning tools
- 33. Coordinates Email: tim.winkelmans@gov.bc.ca Twitter: @twinkelmans
Editor's Notes
- CEET Ning is the core site for the online community. The Ning community platform is ideally suited to this undertaking because of its user-friendliness and multitude of communication and collaboration tools, including discussion forums, blogs, and groups.CEET’s growth has been slow and steady. Membership has doubled over the last year and now sits at 1705 individuals, many of whom are from provinces outside of BC and countries outside of Canada.The high number of returning visitors and visitors who access the site more than 25 times in a 3-month period, and the duration of the visits, all indicate that many teachers consider the CEET Ning community site a valuable resource. The participation by educators from across Canada and the world is further validation of the site.
- In 2010, Apple Canada approached the Ministry to encourage the creation of a K-12 iTunes U for the province. We decided to trial this concept in a scaled-down model that would focus on professional learning resources related to educational technology. This was a natural complement to the CEET online community. It was felt that iTunes was a very familiar, easy-to-use program for many people and thus might be a welcome and effective tool for accessing professional resources.The CEET iTunes U software was installed on the server at UVic last spring. Elizabeth Wellburn, an experienced educational technologist and teacher-trainer, was selected to be the site’s Curator. For now, Elizabeth will act as the content gatekeeper and vet any resources submitted by BC teachers. Current collections, created from past CEET Meets, include: Digital Literacy, Project Based Learning, Instructional Design Best Practices, Motivating Extras, and ePortfolios for Educators.
- Week-long, online, professional learning mini-courses called CEET Meets are the most popular of CEET’s offerings. Developed by educators, for educators, and hosted by LearnNowBC, these free sessions generate discussion and learning on a wide range of pertinent educational topics relating to technology.
- The BC Learning NEXUS is a CEET demonstration project. It consists of a universe of 9 virtual worlds hosted on a server at LNBC. The NEXUS uses the Active Worlds 3D chat platform, v5.1. The NEXUS opened last spring, and six K-12 teachers from school districts across BC began work on their immersive learning worlds: StoryForge, Island, Explore, SerfnTurf, and WCQuest. The other worlds of the NEXUS are the Hub, a gateway world the showcases all the other worlds; Objects, a sort of 3D catalogue of many of the objects and textures available for building; Sandbox, a building practice world for the province’s teacher training programs; and VirtualBC, a Ministry-created simulation of downtown Vancouver featuring the Art Gallery and the Aquarium.Here is an update for each of the teachers’ worlds this year:EXPLORE North Coast Distance Education School (SD82)This world supports Earth Science 11 and Geology 12 students. The approach involves accurate and detailed maps of Explore for teaching map reading skills as well as tools for gathering and representing scientifically meaningful data. The teacher has recreated a BC mining town called Dorreen accurately on a 1 to 20 scale. He feels that he could run the entire Geology course in Explore. He has recruited a collaborating Earth Science teacher from Hazelton Secondary in Hazelton BC to combine classes and run an Earth Science course in the fall. ISLANDStudents from several schools in SD8 are going to collaborate to create a Virtual Learning Commons. SERFNTURFBanting Middle School (SD43)This world was student built in a remarkably short period of time. The students quickly learning how to navigate and build in the NEXUS. Four grade 8 “trial” students used SerfNTurf for their Inquiry projects into the Middle Ages. The students felt limited in what they could do: they had some great ideas but couldn’t figure out how to implement them. A half-executed battle scene is evidence of one of them. This indicates that the teachers need to spend more time at the outset ensuring that the students learn the basics of building and becoming more aware of the tutorial resources that are available to them for more advanced techniques.WCQUESTNorth Island Distance Education School (SD71)The West Coast Quest world is a simulation of the area around Carmanah Lighthouse on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The world is supported by a website that is still being finalized. North Island Distance Education School’s eCademy of New Technologies Engineering and Robotics" is using WCQ as part of their gaming/virtual worlds/sims unit.STORYFORGEHeritage Christian Online School (SD23)This world is all about digital storytelling and the history of storytelling through the ages. It was built quickly and has already had students working in it.
- The Blended Learning Wiki is intended to provide some insights and guidance to District and School staff planning to implement blended learning. The site includes links to useful research, and a number of case studies of blended learning projects around BC.
- BC’s draft Digital Literacy Framework consists of six standards developed by ISTE, plus competencies, performance outcomes, and performance indicators. The Framework will be supported by links to additional teacher resources such as student profiles, lesson and unit plan templates, and professional learning opportunities.