Out of Thin Air: Technology Integration in the Delaware Recommended Curriculum Project Dr. Michael Stetter Director, Curriculum Development Suzanne Keenan Teacher in Residence April 18, 2007

What is the purpose of this presentation?  To provide a brief overview of technology integration into the Delaware Recommended Curriculum Project  To encourage the use of technology to access Delaware Recommended Curriculum materials  To showcase technology integration into various units

What is Delaware’s Recommended Curriculum?

What are the Components of the Recommended Curriculum?  Standards clarifications  Enduring understandings  Essential questions  Model Grade-level syllabi  Model Grade-level transfer tasks/ assessments  Model instructional units * All components are aligned with Content Standards and Grade Level Expectations

A View of Curriculum- Circles The Taught Curriculum The DE Academic Standards The Assessed Curriculum If students receive the bulk of their core instruction on topics and skills not aligned to the standards and assessment expectations, they will not reach proficiency on Delaware State Standards

How can the Delaware Recommended Curriculum help students to succeed?  Focus is on understanding, not just content, and skill acquisition.  Engages students in guided inquiry, practice, active learning, and rethinking.  Assessments designed before the lessons.  Activities and strategies designed to ensure all students are able to meet those targets assessed.

Frequently Asked Questions How will teachers be able to access the Delaware Recommended Curriculum?

One aspect of technology integration to our project… 

Use the Delaware Recommended Curriculum CD-Rom Toolkit! This toolkit includes…  A complete description of Delaware’s Recommended Curriculum.  An overview of all content areas.  Video clips of teachers of the year.  An introduction to the Curriculum and Instruction Website.

Now let’s try using the CD- Rom Toolkit!!! Available in the Spring of 2007

INTRODUCING…. DELAWARE’S CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION WEBSITE

What you can do on this site…  Access information about all content areas including: Standards Clarifications Model Instructional Units Assessments

 Locate the Department of Education’s: Curriculum Contacts Calendar of Events Homepage Juried Units DESS & DEEDS Websites Professional Development Opportunities Learning Principles Delaware Recommended Curriculum

Let’s take a closer look at the website! Current Test Site:

TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION BUILT INTO INSTRUCTION… Examples from… ScienceSocial Studies

SOCIAL STUDIES High School Unit Created by: Dusty Shockley, Social Studies Education Associate Department of Education Current Test Site: Username: drc Password: drc

Delaware Standards Addressed: History Standard One 9-12a: analyze historical materials to trace the development of a trend over a prolonged period of time in order to explain patterns of historical continuity and change

Targeted Skills: Students will be able to…  Frame, analyze, and solve problems  Develop, implement, and communicate new ideas to others  Locate appropriate resources  Act responsibly with the interests of the larger community in mind

Technology integration  Transfer task  Prepare a multi-media presentation that includes relevant graphs, charts, and other appropriate data and suggests a plan to solve a problem  “explain patterns of historical continuity and change”

Using technology to apply skills and meet expectations of the standard: “Locate appropriate resources”  research online sources for this historical topic “analyze historical materials”  Digital collections of artwork  folders containing primary and secondary sources  View video  Listen to MP3 file

SCIENCE: WEATHER 8th grade unit Created by: Science teachers in Delaware and Dr. McIntosh from Delaware State University

Activity 1: What is a hurricane? Are you ready for the challenge?

Delaware Standards Addressed: Standard 3: Energy and its effects  Heat energy  Particle model  Standard 5: Earth’s Dynamic Systems  Water Cycle  Weather systems  Properties of the Atmosphere  Climate  Using technology to measure, record, analyze and predict weather  Energy from the Sun drives weather phenomena

Activity: How Can the Local State of the Atmosphere Be Described?  Students access website data and look at satellite images to make predictions  Students work in teams to plot and analyze excel data while looking for patterns in data

Look for patterns in the three graphs

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