Cross Curricular Competencies Welcome to… Cross Curricular Competencies With Sandi Berg Curriculum Implementation Support Consultant sberg@carcpd.ab.ca

Cross Curricular Competencies

Agenda 1 Multiple Literacies – What is it? Multiple Literacies - Ideas 2 3 Communication & Cooperation – What is it? Communication & Cooperation - Ideas 4

Going to learn how to communicate Today we are… Going to learn how to communicate Going to learn how to be better communicators

Apply Multiple Literacies Reading, writing, mathematics, technology, languages, media, and personal finance The ability to read moves beyond the traditional sense of reading print. We need to: “read” a picture, “read” an auditory story, “read” a multimedia website, and more.

If our schools continue to limit the literacy curriculum to reading and writing traditional, alphabetic, printed texts, then our children will be well prepared for 1950 but ill prepared for 2050.” ~Elizabeth A. Baker The New Literacies: Multiple Perspectives on Research and Practice According to Kellner (2002) and Street (2003), literacies are tools for reading the world – bodies of knowledge, skills and social practices with which we understand, interpret and use the symbol systems of our culture.

Design Learning Opportunities Facilitate access Develop Critical thinking and problem-solving skills Support Knowledge Use Diverse Assessment Facilitate access to a wide variety of resources across multiple literacies Engage students in developing and using critical thinking and problem-solving skills Support the application and extension of their knowledge, both as individuals and as group members Utilize diverse approaches to assessing learner competencies, including student self-assessment

NCTE It is necessary to Develop proficiency and fluency Build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships Design and share Manage, analyze, and synthesize Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate Attend to ethical responsibilities Develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology; Build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships with others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought; Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes; Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information; Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts; Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Positions/Framework_21stCent_Curr_Assessment.pdf

Find Their Voice Real-World Audience We want to help students connect with a

Infographics http://albertacanada.com/business/statistics/infographics.aspx

Technology Netiquette Ethical Facebook Twitter Email Skype Wikis Blogs Copyright You need to discuss and provide opportunities for students to practice netiquette and ethical and safe use of technology.

Developing an Infographic Students Choose an issue or topic that is personally interesting Suggestions: Historical event, social issue, ecological or environmental issue, cultural event or tradition, art or artists, sports, music, etc. Research Create Present http://kplacido.com/2011/10/01/developing-an-infographics-project/

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Communication and Cooperation Demonstrate good communication skills and the ability to work cooperatively with others

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” ~Isaac Newton

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” ~George Bernard Shaw

Design Learning Opportunities Provide project-based and experiential learning opportunities and classroom routines that develop communication and cooperative work skills

Design Learning Opportunities Ensure that learners’ differing needs, cultures and abilities are respected and valued within inclusive learning environments

Design Learning Opportunities Identify ways to more broadly assess learner communication and cooperative work skills

I love this book because it focuses on developing collaboration skills I love this book because it focuses on developing collaboration skills. Each page focuses on a different problem. You put students in groups of 4, 5 or 6. Each student is given a different clue to help solve one math problem. They can read that clue to the rest of the group but they can not show it to anyone else. Together, the group must figure out the answer to the problem. http://www.amazon.com/Get-It-Together-Problems-Groups/dp/0912511532

Defend Everything http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/190/1296772229_2.jpg

Telephone 2 1 Re-explain your partners process back to him/her. Explain to your partner how to add two fractions together with unlike denominators.

Add only the numbers on the outside of the shape Frayer Models Definition Characteristics Add only the numbers on the outside of the shape The distance around the shape The distance around closed figure Outlining of an object The lengths outside an object added together Perimeter Examples Non-examples How many of you are familiar with frayer models? They are an excellent activity to implement at the beginning of a unit to determine prior knowledge, during a unit or at the end to determine understanding. Choose one idea/term you would use in your classroom to create a frayer model for. What CCC(s)? Can’t find perimeter because it is not a closed figure V=LxWxH

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