Unpack, Upgrade and Bring your Lesson into the 21st Century
Sheryl Nussbaum Beach had asked me to share two examples of how I unpack a lesson with teachers, during a webinar for TPACK. You can listen and view the archived version in Elluminate.
Participants have asked me to share the slides for the presentation and in particular the templates created for “21st Century Skills”, “21st Century Literacies” and “Six Roles to Develop Empowered Learners” (which is based on Alan Novembers chapter in Heidi Hayes Jacob’s book “Curriculum 21” (ASCD 2010).
The example I describe in the presentation are based on the upgrade of the upper elementary Christopher Columbus unit and the middle school Language Arts upgrade of an Author’s Point of View lesson.
The templates help teachers remember that upgrading a unit is NOT about using the latest tech tool. It breaks down the skills and literacies involved and practiced. The templates also help educators realize, over time, that not every lesson, not every unit has to address EVERY skill and literacy. By looking at their overall teaching and learning goals, we need to expose and create competencies in all these areas for our students.
Download the templates as a pdf file
Take a look how we filled out the template for the above mentioned Christopher Columbus unit.
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Thanks for sharing this here, Sylvia. We loved having you in the PLP TPACK session. You always offer so much to all of us.
Thanks Silvia! Will share in Mon’s meeting with Tech PD committee and hopefully will begin to use with classroom teachers, and more importantly-students!
Thanks for sharing these resources, Silvia. I attended part of the TPACK session but these really help me reflect and understand. I plan to share these with my school staff and especially our PLP team that is meeting on Monday.
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This was wonderful! I just came across this site and there is so much useful information. Thank you for sharing the “Upgrade your Lesson” files. I cannot wait to print them out and use them for my units! I look forward to reading your other posts.
Hi, I am a student in Dr Strange’s EDM 310 class at University of South Alabama. I am working towards my degree in elementary education. I am always looking for new or better ideas to help me in the future in my own classroom. I thought this post was wonderful! The information is very useful. I found that the layouts were simple and easy to use. I can not wait to use them in my own lessons. Thank you for such helpful ideas. My blog link http://TidikisMirandaedm310.blogspot.com
Follow-up to the above reply by Miranda. Our class blog is http://edm310.blogspot.com. I will be visiting your site again to comment on a second blog in two weeks, followed by a summary of both blogs on my blog page. Again thank you you such wonderful information.
Hi,
I’ve just come across your blog, since I am doing the new challenge on Edublogger. I just wanted to write and tell you how much I like your posts about how you do things with students and also show examples of the results, just the right thing for me! I try to educate myself a bit for going back to teaching, as I am at home with our youngest son right now, and your blog is perfect for getting new ideas!
Hi, my name is Courtney Starkie and I am one Dr. Strange’s EDM 310 students. I really enjoyed this blog post about bringing our lessons into the 21st Century. The templates you provided will be very useful for me in my classroom one day. I look forward to your future posts to see what other great information you have for us! My blog link is http://starkiecourtneyedm310.blogspot.com/.
Our class blog is http://edm310.blogspot.com/, I will be summarizing my visits with a post to my blog on Feb. 6th.
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I love this format. When I printed it, it was very blurry. I tried re-typing it myself but still cannot read the Columbus plan. I think your exmple could be very helpful to me. Can you help?
@lauren,
Take a look at the original downloads on my Flickr account
http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/5377396425/in/set-72157605083562304/
nice work bro! keep it up!