EDEL 394 A4 Thursday, September 15th Agenda

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EDEL 394 A4Thursday, September 15thAgenda

• Lesson Objective
• Understanding Curriculum
• Alberta Program of Studies
• Year Plans
• Unit Plans
• WebCT Task for the week

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Course Objective for Today

• Students will learn how to plan lessons for
  elementary teaching with an awareness of
• curriculum
• the Alberta Program of Studies
• year and unit planning

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What is curriculum?
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Definitions of Curriculum

• Etymology from Latin currereto run a race or
  course
• The whole range of studies offered in a school,
  college, or in a type of school.
• Set of courses offered by an educational
  institution

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Curriculum is...

• Curriculum is all the experiences that
  individual learners have in a program of
  education whose purpose is to achieve broad goals
  and related specific objectives, which is planned
  in terms of a framework of theory and research or
  past and present professional practice.
• (Hass, G. 1980. Curriculum planning A new
  approach. 3rd ed.
• Boston Allyn and Bacon)

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The Alberta Program of Studies

• http//education.gov.ab.ca/news/2004/December/nr-I
  ntlTests.asp
• http//education.gov.ab.ca/news/2004/December/nr-M
  innesotaDeleg.asp
• http//education.gov.ab.ca/news/2005/June/nr-Scien
  ceScores.asp

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The Alberta Program of Studies

• Promo 1
• Promo 2
• Promo 3

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• Alberta Education is responsible for determining
  what students are expected to learn from
  Kindergarten to Grade 12. The Program of Studies
  includes
• Core programs
• Optional Programs

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What do the curriculum documents look like?

• Examples from
• English Language Arts
• Physical Education
• Mathematics
• Science
• Social Studies

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Year or Long Range Plans

• Those who fail to plan, plan to fail

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Year Long or Long Range Plans

• Why should I plan?
• Where do I start?
• What do I plan?
• What resources should I use?
• Who can help me?
• What should my plan look like?

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• What do the plans look like?
• It depends!!
• A graphic model
• A narrative
• A collection of unit plans organized within a
  timetable

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• Narrative
• Will mostly depend on what your principal wants.
• Each subject area needs to be included
  separately.
• General explanation of the plan you have for the
  year for each subject, including enduring
  understandings, overview of topics, special
  activities, resources, etc.

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Unit Planning
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Unit Plans

• How are unit plans organized?
• When do you choose a theme? Pigs
• When do you choose a topic?
• Where do themes/topics come from?
• Whats in a unit plan?
• Where do you find sample unit plans and more ?

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Other sources of sample unit plans

• Teachers/ teacher-librarian in local school
• District consultants or resource centre
• Alberta Distant Learning Centre
• Provincial Level or other parts in Alberta
• ATA
• Alberta Assessment Consortium
• Other Canadian
• Other (Australian, American, Commercial, etc.)