Dipping into the Learning Pool of

Integrated Curriculum:A Synthesis of Knowledge

How deep? How professional?

Week #1: Begin With the End in Mindor “There and Back Again”

What do you need to “end” your training?

Critical Evidence for the Week: Article Response, Autobiography Timeline, Resume, Cover Letter, Symbaloo/Shelfari updates, Philosophy of Teaching, Letter to your former self, other assignments, etc.

Required Reading for the Week: one of several selected articles, Introduction – “How to Integrate the Curricula”

Pre-assessing your learning

Who are you as a teacher?What kind of teacher are you?

What kind of teacher do you want to be? In 5 years? In 10 years?

Describe Your Journey:http://www.dipity.com/bgalloway/personal/

5 Things I still wish to learn/know before I graduate with an Education Degree to teach.

The Top 5:The Interview Process (questions,

eportfolio, preparations, cover letters, etc.)

Getting a Teaching Job (subbing, letters of authority, interim certificate, finding the “right job”, TQS, etc.)

Having a successful APT practicum (preparations, teaching tools/class management tips, differentiation strategies, CL techniques)

Creating an integrated unit planRecommendations: PD, books, PGPs

….more questions (The Question Box)• Curriculum review questions (16 Effective

Characteristics of Middle Schools)• What is your end? How will you know when you are

there? How will you get “here to there”? • What are the essential understandings/Big ideas you

have acquired from the Middle Years Program? • What knowledge, skills and attributes define you as a

quality teacher?• What do you still need to learn to secure “your end”? • What are your essential questions? • What will it take to get the “Dreamland Middle

School” job? What about your eportfolio?• What criteria will the principals use for hiring?• Course requirementsEverything you ever wanted to know, but were afraid to ask…

about teaching….about this course…about the assignments…

When I become a teacher…

The Past:The Present: The Future:

Finish the sentence…..Send a letter to yourself….

Week #1: Begin With the End in Mindor “There and Back Again”

-Seeing/Discussion: Movie Trailer: The Hobbit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOGsB9dORBg

-Seeing/Discussion: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbGNcoB2Y4I

Chapter Presentations:Brochure Exemplars

Movie Trailer Exemplars

Begin with the end in MindTo begin with the end in mind means to start

with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you’re going so that you better understand where you are now so that the steps you take are

always in the right direction.-Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly

Effective People, 1989, p. 98

What is your “end”?

Course Site:https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/middle-years-education-program/

“Those who Fail to Plan

…..Should Plan to Fail.”

Planning for Learning:Quality Instructional Design

The Quality Teaching Document defines the end….and the beginning

Alberta Education: http://education.alberta.ca/media/311294/421.pdf

…and the future?

…Further Thinking and Doing

Complete the “Logistics” part of your integrated unit plan (e.g. What grade/subjects/topics will you be teaching during practicum? Print off/save program of studies for your designated grade/subject/topics and have with you at all times (due next Tuesday)

Professional Reflection: You will assigned one of five readings (placed on Googlesites). Please read and provide a one page reflection on how you feel this article is relevant in terms of our conversations/key learning this week (due next class)

We Swim Together, or We Sink Together“

JUMP IN – The water’s fine, and so is the learning

Dipping into the Learning Pool of

Integrated Curriculum