You attended our two-day professional development experience in which you learned about designing curriculum for the 21st century.  You developed an interdisciplinary, integrated framework for a unit of curriculum, and incorporated the classroom strategies you learned during the workshop.

You went back to your classroom and implemented the unit.  It was a learning experience, and probably very rewarding.

Now let's take this curriculum design a step further.  In this two-day follow-up we will evaluate the implementation of the curriculum framework you designed during the first workshop.  We will re-design and polish this unit, or create a new one.  Then, designing down, we will write a detailed unit including:

• Final Unit Outcomes

• Developing Outcomes - activities, strategies and sources - this is where we define specifically what resources the students will be using, what activities they will be doing, and how and with whom they will be doing them.

• Enabling Outcomes - basic skills, strategies and vocabulary. This will include everything from basic language arts skills such as grammar and punctuation to strategies students must have in order to do the activities in the Developing Outcomes.  This is where you include strategies students must learn such as Jigsawing, Notetaking, Interviewing and more.

• Individual Authentic Assessments - how each student will be assessed for each unit outcome.

• Group Assessments -  how each small group product will be assessed for each unit outcome.

• Materials Bank - from basic materials for projects to the resources students will using to locate their content information and conduct their research.

• Activities Bank - list of possible activities for each unit.
   

• Standards Bank - here you will list the state and/or national content standards taught in each unit.

Not only will you develop a more refined unit, you will gain a great deal from the interactions and discussion with others at the workshop as you share and discuss your experiences with designing 21st century curriculum and classrooms.