Concept-based Curriculum - Change - session 2

In this session, Kara shared:

New curriculum priorities in NSW –a review after 30 years

Concept-based curriculum –what it is; how we use it.

How we design language lessons for this kind of learning

Lesson tasks for a concept-based Unit of Work

Transcript

1. Using the concept Change to model Concept-based Teaching, for deep understanding and to apply learning to life With Kara Matheson Education Officer NSW Community Languages Schools Program Hunter Community Languages Please join in using: www.slido.com with #825005
2. Acknowledgement of country I acknowledge and respect the traditional custodians of the land on which I work, the Pambalong Clan of the Awabakal people. Today we come together from lands far and wide that have been cared for by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for over sixty thousand years. Let us pay our respects to Elders past, present, and future.
3. What's one of the biggest changes you've ever experienced? How did it affect you? ⓘ Start presenting to display the poll results on this slide.
4. What? • New curriculum priorities in NSW – a review after 30 years • Concept-based curriculum – what it is; how we use it. • How we design language lessons for this kind of learning • Experience lesson tasks that use concept-based design Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash
5. Why is this important? • Awareness of curriculum directions in NSW • Give our students the richest, best experience of learning • Make CLSs learning even more relevant to students’ broader lives Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
6. The ‘How’? • I’ll explain the theory • I’ll share lesson tasks so you experience this kind of learning • Join in and ask questions Photo by Atikah Akhtar on Unsplash
7. Curriculum reform in NSW Designing new syllabuses to develop: • deeper understandings of a subject • the capacity for students to apply the knowledge and understanding that they get in the classroom to life, to make sense of the world and to solve complex problems
8. How do we help learners to grow a ‘deep’ understanding and apply knowledge and skills? We use problem solving tasks and investigative projects that require ‘higher order’ thinking – where they analyse, evaluate and create. Through these tasks, students build and extend their subject knowledge and also develop an important range of skills.
10. What do you love about spring? ⓘ Start presenting to display the poll results on this slide.
11. Why do you love those aspects of spring? What needs do they meet for you? ⓘ Start presenting to display the poll results on this slide.
12. Higher Order Thinking with this Task 1. What is special and what do you love? (Understanding) 2. Why? What needs are met? (Analysing, Evaluating)
13. Concept- based Units of Work New curriculum is using Concept-based lesson design to encourage deep learning and the application of learning to unique contexts – to life! Examples of concepts: Interconnection; Relationships; Responsibility; Culture; Faith; Wellbeing; Effort; Balance; Sustainability; Community; Beauty; Belonging; Identity.
14. Concepts / Topics A topic: A festival in your country A concept: Celebration A topic: Religion in your country A concept: Faith A topic: Seasons A concept: Change Concepts are universal, timeless and abstract. Topics are more about specific times, people, things and places.
15. When you plan a Unit of Work or a lesson, what do you usually start with? ⓘ Start presenting to display the poll results on this slide.
16. How do we design a Concept- based Unit of Work? 1. Choose a concept 2. Choose a big (Essential) question to overarch all of the lessons in the unit – like an anchor 3. Plan the content to build experience with the concept: • Tasks • The language needed to do the tasks
17. Concept: Change Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash
18. Features of an ‘essential’ question: It is open-ended. It is not easy to find the answer; you may never find it! There may be no single "right" answer to the question (which may be initially frustrating). In order to make any question essential, you need to figure out a way to move away from a single answer. Push yourself towards uncertain territory.
19. Change: Big questions * How does change affect us? Do people like change? Does knowing more than one language and culture change how we see life? What is a big question related to the concept of change that you want students to think about while they learn about your heritage language and culture?
20. How does change affect us? Use this activity to teach vocabulary and get everyone interested in the concept ‘change’.
21. How I would start using this activity with heritage speakers. Building vocabulary and engagement with the concept. • Draw 4 squares on the board, elicit the names of the seasons and have a volunteer write them up. • Small group chat – what do you like about spring? • Whole group share – go around, each group shares one thing. Write up ideas. • Back to small group share for the next season – Summer. • Back to whole group, starting with a different group. • Individual work – students complete the 4 worksheets, writing complete sentences. • Home task – ask your family - what do they like/d about the seasons in the heritage country. Facetime relatives overseas and ask them. Thinking = Understanding. • Follow-up – Next class have small group chats and whole group shares re the home task. Analyse and evaluate the results. Create something to illustrate the results.
22. How does change affect us? Rank the season from your favourite (5) to the one you like the least (1). [UNDERSTANDING - comparing] ⓘ Start presenting to display the poll results on this slide.
24. How could we ANALYSE the results? What do the results tell us about ‘how change affects us’? Photo by Les Anderson on Unsplash
25. Analyse: who likes what season? • Draw and label a graph of this result • Invite the class – “Let’s dig deeper and see if we can find any patterns in who likes which season. Let’s look for patterns in different groups. What groups could we look at? • Eg boys and girls; ages; country where person lives. Could we ask our family to rank the seasons to get more data to see how age and how living in the heritage country affects which season is more popular? • Evaluate (and return to the Essential Question for this concept): Does the change in season affect us differently if we’re a certain age / gender / nationality?
26. EVALUATE - hypothesise • Why do you think we saw the differences that we saw? Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash
27. Notes on hypothesising • Encourage outrageous guesses and then ask for supporting evidence • Students need to come to see that we need to be able to support our ideas with evidence • ‘Evidence’ might be very flimsy at first. If so, acknowledge the effort to give supporting evidence and set the bar a bit higher
28. How do we know the season is changing in NSW? What are the signs? [REMEMBERING - identifying] ⓘ Start presenting to display the poll results on this slide.
29. How do you feel when your favourite season ends? [ANALYSING - integrating] Language: Teach emotions language. ⓘ Start presenting to display the poll results on this slide.
30. The 6 seasons for the Bininj people in the NT The Magpie Goose
31. Are seasons the same everywhere? [UNDERSTANDING - interpreting; inferring] ⓘ Start presenting to display the poll results on this slide.
32. CREATE – design; devise; construct How can we make a project that shows what we know about seasons in NSW, Bininj country and _________ (your heritage country)?
33. In today’s session: Concept-based curriculum is a strategy for bringing more higher-order thinking and transferrable understanding into students’ learning We start with a concept - change We choose a big question for the Unit of Work – ‘How does change affect us?’ Plan content to explore this question – identify key language features and plan tasks for students to use various thinking skills, including higher order thinking skills
34. Questions? Photo by sydney Rae on Unsplash
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