1. Cross Curricular Competencies
Welcome to…
Cross Curricular Competencies
With Sandi Berg
Curriculum Implementation Support Consultant

2. Cross Curricular Competencies

3. Agenda 1 Multiple Literacies – What is it? Multiple Literacies - Ideas2 3
Communication & Cooperation – What is it?
Communication & Cooperation - Ideas 4

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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

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

10. Infographics

12. 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.

13. 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

14. Your Ideas

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

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

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

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

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

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

21. 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.

22. Defend Everything

23. 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.

24. 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

25. Your Ideas

26. Sandi Berg sberg@carcpd.ab.ca
Thank You !
Sandi Berg