ID.Curriculum


 * 1) =====Survey & Goals =====
 * =====Goals: =====
 * =====· Defining concepts and tools for interdisciplinary planning; =====
 * =====· Providing examples of interdisciplinary units and opportunities for your own team planning; =====
 * =====· Considering ways to assess and evaluate, our collective work, the students and the interdisciplinary unit itself =====
 * =====Why interdisciplinary curriculum? =====
 * =====Getting at: “What is it gonna take?” =====
 * =====What are we willing to commit to? =====

2. Clarifying our definitions of Concepts and Terms & Looking Briefly at Examples

 * ===== SJ Teaching =====
 * ===== "Languaging" & Language teaching =====
 * ===== Assessment =====
 * ===== Standards =====
 * ===== Curriculum =====
 * ===== Interdisciplinary Curriculum =====
 * ===== Interdisciplinary understanding is (1) purposeful, (2) disciplined and (3) integrative =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Thematic Curriculum =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Project-Based Curriculum =====

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 3. Examining Samples
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 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Discussion prompts: =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> What do you notice? =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> What are you wondering about? =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> How might this inform what you are already doing? =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Seattle High School Example =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Nathan Hale High School (Seattle, WA) Integrated Studies Program =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">12TH grade humanities study on race =====

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 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">8th grade example from Project Zero =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Interdisciplinary Studies Project - Project Zero Harvard University =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Look at High Tech High Examples (On-Line) =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">High Tech High - San Diego =====

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4. Interdisciplinary Unit Design (Process & Mechanics)

 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reflecting on our Learning Community =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Taking stock of Learning Goals and Standards/ Template from IHS@L =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Establishing Core Learning Goals for the Unit =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Deciding what type of interdisciplinary model will best fit your goals =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Generating a Theme & Sub-themes (across the disciplines) =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Overarching Essential Questions for the thematic study =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Clarifying Overarching Enduring Understandings =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Considering Language Goals as well =====

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">5. Developing Interdisciplinary Projects & Aligning Discipline-Specific Activity and sub-projects

 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Developing Integrated Projects: Think about agreed upon learning goals, the themes, and the essential questions =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Brainstorm Integrated Projects and Discipline-specific projects that contribute to the integrated project =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reflecting on what’s doable individually, what are things you can do in tandem, what can you do across team? =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Timeline =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> How will you schedule learning time, to make this happen? How will you negotiate constraints? =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> What about testing seasons? =====

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">6. Collective Assessments of our Work (Student & Teachers, Looking at Learning, Instruction, & Participation)

 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Overarching Assessment tools (Formative, Ongoing, Summative) =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How have you traditionally reflected on your individual units of study? =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How might we develop different points in time to evaluate the integrated project =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Evaluating our Work (In the midst of the study) =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Reflecting on Content integration and learner development =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Reflecting on Language goals being addressed =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Reflecting on our own commitment and participation in the collective project =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Reflecting on how our students have been participating, and general engagement with the study? =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reflecting on the alignment of the end project with where the community is in the study. =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Developing modification of instruction and support for students =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Tools for assessing at the end of the study? =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Project evaluations/Reflections from students, educators, and outsiders =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Student Exit interviews, =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Community conversation =====
 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Peer reviews =====

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">7. Moving forward

 * =====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Reconvene as much as you can to adapt, modify, recognize strengths =====