Education in the new millennium - challenges and possibilities!

Motivation - Students today live, learn and play in a media-saturated society, in a world of “infotainment” and spectacle. For many students the curriculum is not relevant, and they become disengaged from learning.

Media Literacies - Rapid developments in technology have brought many exciting changes to life in the new millennium, presenting new challenges for schools. Multiple new literacies are required to navigate the “forest of signs and symbols” of our globalized media culture. (Douglas Kellner, UCLA)

Diversity - Globalization and immigration have created a society of increased diversity. Old and new social issues demand an informed, concerned and empowered citizenry.

Standardized testing mania has made meaningful curriculum an endangered species. Find out why it's not an "either-or" situation - you can still teach the way you know you should and your kids will excel on their standardized tests! Read the research!

Technologies and Multimedia - utilize these 21st century tools as the vehicles to implement your curriculum! (Note: this is not a workshop that centers on educational technologies, but centers on curriculum design which incorporates, or utilizes as a vehicle, these technologies in order to achieve curriculum and instruction aligned to the realities of the 21st century.)

In this workshop we will address these issues, and more, as you . . .

Learn Curriculum Design and Classroom Strategies to:

• Meet the needs of your students
• Bring your classroom into the 21st century
• Exceed the standards
• Raise standardized test scores
• Maintain meaningful, authentic curriculum!

• Classroom Teachers and Principals K-12
• Staff Developers
• Curriculum Specialists
• University Professors of Education
• University Students in Teacher Education Programs

• Participate in a variety of groups while learning classroom strategies experientially
• Gain new perspectives as you collaborate with other educators
• Develop a unit designed for your classroom reflecting the goals, needs and interests of your students, campus and community
• Analyze and apply current educational research and best practices in education as you design your 21st century classroom
• Incorporate new technologies and multimedia into your curriculum design

• Curriculum Design

• Project-based Learning

• Problem-based Learning

• Interdisciplinary

• Integrated

• Thematic

• Research-oriented unit design

• Service Learning projects

• Standards - aligning to and exceeding State and National standards

• Technologies and Multimedia - utilize these 21st century tools as vehicles to implement your curriculum

• Multiple Literacies needed for living and learning in the 21st century

• Classroom Strategies to develop Self-Directed, Independent and Interdependent Student Learning

• Global Classroom - use the Internet to create collaborative projects and conduct authentic research, nationally and internationally

• Student Motivation — utilize these strategies to ensure that your students are engaged with the curriculum

• Classroom Organization and Management - structures to support the 21st century classroom

• Addressing Diversity and Social Issues— the “Isms” - Racism, Classism, Sexism, anti-Semitism and religious oppression, Linguicism, Ableism, Ageism

• Media Literacies— introduction to use of multiple forms of media to motivate students, implement the curriculum and for assessment as students learn Media Analysis, Media Critique and Media Production skills!

• Multiple Intelligences

• Differentiated Instruction

• Media Literacy - accessing, analyzing, critiquing and creating products in a variety of media.

• Classroom Climate

• Physical Environment

• High Expectations

• Emotional Climate

• Cooperative and Collaborative Grouping

• Parental and Community Involvement - authentic involvement, truly contributing to the curriculum and instruction the learning process -  not the "please come to the school and run off these papers for me, or shelve these books, or cut out these items."  True, highly motivated and valuable participation.

• Themes - what kind of themes you can select, and how to incorporate everything, taking learning to greater levels.

What You'll Take With You!

• 21st century project-based unit that you have designed for your classroom

• Certificate for Professional Staff Development

• Designing the 21st Century Classroom, a toolkit, containing all this and more:

• Yearly Curriculum Planning Guide

• Sample Units—various themes and grade levels

• Themes Bank - jump-start your curriculum planning with this bank of possible themes

• Classroom Strategies - from physical room arrangements to student grouping and activities

• Guide to the Global Classroom

• Unit and Lesson Design Tools

• Media Literacy - Ideas & Resources

• Authentic Assessment Tools

• Recommended Resources

• Multiple Intelligences Inventories & Lesson Ideas

• Current research & best practices in education

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Workshop Goals and Agenda