Designing the 21st Century Classroom - an Online Course in Curriculum Design

Education in the new millennium - challenges and possibilities!

This online course is designed to deliver our regional workshop, Designing the 21st Century Classroom, a two-day (14-hour) workshop, via distance learning.  Rather than physically traveling to a site and participating in face-to-face discussions and activities with fellow attendees, you will gain your knowledge via a variety of approaches:

• Online lessons delivered via text, video and audio formats

• Conducting your case study analyses online rather than in small discussion groups

• Presenting your findings and demonstrating your learning online rather than in person

• If enrolled with a team, you will be able to share your ideas in a Collaboration web page set up for your team

• You will receive individualized support via email from the facilitator.

Upon the conclusion of this workshop/course, and the presentation of your 21st Century Unit of Curriculum, you will receive the same certificate of completion as participants who have attended this workshop on-site in various cities.  This may be presented to your school district for credit toward professional development hours.  Certificates are for 14 hours of professional development.

Introduction:

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!

Designing the 21st Century Classroom - about the workshop/course . . .

Who Should Attend:

• Classroom Teachers and Principals K-12

• Staff Developers

• Curriculum Specialists

• University Professors of Education

• University Students in Teacher Education Programs

What You'll Do

• 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

What You'll Learn!

• Curriculum Design that incorporates:

• 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

• 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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