- What did I learn?: The purpose of education is to meet the needs of society and continue the evolution of the human race as derived from the P.I.C.K.L.E. principles.
- What does it mean and what supports that position?: This means that the essential expectations for good design of education is to include Problem-Solving, Information Adept, Community Participant, Knowledgeable of content, Literate, and Ethical Decision-Making skills. This position is supported by the survey of the web pages for NEA, Common Core Standards, and Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
- Which are the ways in which it might impact my practice?: In Loudoun County Public Schools this year we have an initiative called "One to the World", where communication of student work is disseminated outside the classroom, relating to the "I" & "C" in PICKLE. LCPS also has integrated Project/Problem Based Lessons which is in line with the "P" of PICKLE.
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Post #1: Sabertooth Curriculum and the 1st Design Principle:
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Interesting but I am left wondering all kinds of thins. In #3, you talk all about Loudoun but what about your own practice. How does YOUR practice reflect the design principle - connections with what the community needs doing, links to living and learning, and the PICKLE? How might you start thinking about your practice a bit differently as we move forward? Priscilla
ReplyDeleteIn my lessons I always try to bring real world examples to illustrate the concepts that are being taught in class. We currently are reviewing Metric to Standard unit conversions and I recounted the disaster of one of the first Mars probes back in 1999. It was a joint venture between NASA (standard) and ESA (metric). In the data exchange for the altitude to deploy parachutes, no one did the conversion and the craft exploded on the surface of Mars. 286 days and $200 million dollars gone in an instant.
DeleteI also work in LCPS. At our school we are working on designing problem based learning activities that center around real life problems. We are currently designing an activity that will allow the students to come up with creative ways to teach the topics to their classmates who are English language learners (ELL). I was interested to see what kind of ideas your school is currently working on.
ReplyDeleteLikewise we are doing PBL in Physics, one of our projects is "siege machines", not really something to learn to live, but has other applications for understanding projectile motion. We plan to do a OttW presentation at an Elementary School as our communication outside the classroom.
DeleteAs a teacher in DCPS, we are all doing Cornerstone projects that have to somehow relate to their lives today. Some of the Cornerstones work out, some don't. DCPS tends to do everything half way and that leads to quite a few problems. They don't plan things particularly well, and we are held responsible anyway.
ReplyDeleteTo assure my own survival, I just take what they have suggested and try to do something in the same vein. For example, I try to combine things from the past specifically with things in the present. In history, it isn't a real problem. For example, I had the students annotate, discuss and analyze Slavery as a Positive Good by John C. Calhoun (1837). Then we did the same with Janelle Monet's Many Moons (a song and video about an Android Auction in 2719). The discussions were outstanding.
That's pretty much FCPS in a nutshell. Great ideas. Poorly executed.
DeleteIf anything, students at my school learn to be exceptional minimalists when it comes to projects or assignments that aren't relevant to their lives.
My classes revolve around problem solving but sure enough the school system finds it necessary to put you in the same box as other teachers when it comes to grading, teaching, use of technology, etc.
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