Curriculum Design - Breaking Down The Walls

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            17th August, 18th August & 9th November 2009

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    inside oiutside This three day professional learning opportunity has
    been specifically designed to support teachers to develop deeper
    levels of understanding on how curriculum that involves community
    partnerships can be utilised to strengthen teaching and learning.
    This work draws from the 2007 ANSN Curriculum Planning Action
    Research Hub.

    Learning in the broader community becomes where children and adults
    find the pleasure of playing, working, talking, thinking, and
    inventing things together. They are engaged in learning how the
    existence and relationships of things and people can be sought out,
    improved upon and enjoyed together. This will lead to a reworking of
    children's potentials, the processes and values involved in the
    development of the child, his/her knowledge and culture. Schools
    operating as a human system within a global environment are able to
    survive, develop, and transform by experiencing, owning and
    integrating differences.

    /*The purpose of this professional learning program is to support
    teachers in understanding how to design curriculum which:*/

        * Empowers and engages students and communities together to find
          solutions to local, state, and national problems.
        * Involve students in the democratic process of change Create
          and strengthen school-community partnerships Educate and excite
        * Build a network of educators engaged in evolving their own
          learning of socially critical curriculum planning.
        * Reflects the six phases of the 'Teaching to Learn, Learning to
          Teach' curriculum planning process
        * Promotes the 'process of design' as opposed to a 'proforma for
          design'
        * Reflects the criteria for effective teaching and learning
          through utilising both international, national and local
          research (Harvard University, University of South Australia
          and ANSN)
        * Emphasises methods that leads to 'depth' vs. 'coverage'
          Broadens the use of thinking tools in ways that correspond
          with relevant points of the learning journey
        * Demonstrates how you can design the learning experience to
          promote the 'gradual release of
          responsibility'
        * Sets challenging and relevant learning tasks
          Reflects inquiry based learning in meaningful, supportive and
          practical ways
        * Manages the tension between negotiated curriculum and teacher
          directed instruction
        * Enables participants to reflect on current planning against
          the criteria presented in this workshop
        * Serves the learner

    Click here to find out more on our website.
    <http://www.ansn.edu.au/curriculum_design_breaking_down_the_walls>

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