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=Group Two - Course Planning=

This collaboration page is created for your group to use during your discussion today.

This can be seen as a "scratch pad" of your current ideas and ideas you want to learn more about.

What are you doing after practicum with respect to planning

Jane Scope and sequence of courses - curriculum mapping using a calendar Use a calendar to actually map the days that you will teach the course. Individulaly each one maps a unit, then each one does a task for the unit If doing presentations - need presentation days, library days, 2.5 - 3 weeks later - look at all Some like to do things on their own...get tired of working with each other, like the ownership 13 courses to choose from Give school profiles - developed differently for a rural vs inner city vs. suburbs vs technology. How to make exciting for different students. How does school profile impact on the different ways that things are taught. Go back to the department afterward - "department time"

Usha - start with course plan; critical challenges that will drive the course, some big picture questions that will drive the course; discipline specific skills; generic skills (literacy) Template used; second template is a summative assessment plan; 30% assessment first. Must be engaging etc. Divide the course into units; Big picture planning for all units but then as a group, hone in on one unit. Third template is a formative assessment template (fishbone template) then come up with the individual unit; each person does one lesson for the course - turns out to be a course profile with one unit fully flushed out. Did lesson planning at the beginning, now you are better - gave option to replace the more recent mark On wikispaces.....ask Usha for access to the wiki if you want an exemplar. All collaborating done on wikispaces....Foundation document - all on one page. Needs to be concise. Course cullminating on second template Did collaborating online. Post it on wiki. History button is useful to show you who didi what and the changes that have been made. Shows you the evolution of the document. Pressure to have equal accountability. 11 courses to choose from in History Find a lesson plan from internet, tweek it given our criteria, fictional classlists, face them tomorrow, research on the different students, annotate the lesson plan according to what they would do differently supported by research, theory into practice came into play. Each person modified a subject specific - report card on the lesson - collaborative planning. Class lists put them into cross curriculur planning groups so they had the same group of kids...so talked about strategies

Carolee Strands - start with them, set up Media strand does not get addressed as it is new to the English curriculum.

Sue Wiki - used for practice so that no one else can see it