Christmas at Dr. Andy's place!

Hi, you should have all received e-mail invites by now, please e-mail me if you do not have one, start time is 4 PM, remember to send your returns to gmail! Merry Christmas!

Reflections Week Seven

We were blessed with yet another first rate effort tonight by David and Zarni. Please post reflections on the topic of Blooms Taxonomy here. Thanks, Merry Christmas and may God Bless you all with happiness, fulfillment and much love this Christmas season, in the New Year and beyond. You guys are a TERRIFIC group! Blessings, Dr. Andy

Questions, Concerns, Week Seven

Please post any ongoing questions or concerns here, Thanks, Dr. Andy

Many new videos added, check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/user/drandygoodman#p/u/8/MH1qhn81aAM

Reflections week six

I felt that we were treated to another valuable presentation tonight on the subject of Discovery Learning. Please post reflections here, Thanks, Dr. Andy

Questions, Concerns week six

Please post any ongoing questions and concerns here, Thanks, Dr. Andy

Questions, Concerns, Week Five

Please post any ongoing questions here, Thanks, Dr. Andy

Week Five Reflections

I think that we all got a lot out of the efforts of Gaye and Micah tonight! I know I did! Please post reflections, regarding their topic of creative teaching, here, Thanks, Dr. Andy

Week Four Questions, Concerns

Please post any ongoing questions or issues of concern there, Thanks, Dr. Andy

Week Four Reflections

Please post reflections for week four here, Thanks, Dr. Andy

Teaching Videos

Hi, you can check out some of my teaching videos here, Cheers, Dr. Andy

http://www.youtube.com/user/drandygoodman

Week Three Questions and Concerns

Please post any questions or issues of concern you may have here for myself and other team members to help you with. Thanks! Dr. Andy

Week Three Reflections

I appreciated all of your sound efforts tonight as we examined some of the holistic approaches to teaching that we can use to improve learning. Please post reflections here. Thanks! Dr. Andy

Dr. Andy Working in Schools

Hi there everybody, I am planning on working with some schools in the ensuing months with the goal of helping to facilitate improved teaching practices and enhancing learning for students. Most likely this would be using a workshop presentation type format with follow up as needed or requested. I have already done this type of work with several schools in the past and am interested in expanding upon some of these efforts. This is a separate initiative from my work at ABAC or my current international school teaching at RIS, and would be scheduled on a case by case basis with schools requesting the services. Please let me know outside of class if you are interested or feel your school might benefit. Or you can just comment on this post and we can discuss ideas. Thanks, Dr. Andy

Week two reflections

Hi All, I was again impressed by the energy and enthusiasm in the room last night. We have a great group, and I feel we are really making some strides even in the first two weeks in terms of incorporating some new practices into our teaching. Please post reflections for our student engagement, week two session here, Thanks, Dr. Andy

Week Two, Concerns, Questions

Hi, I hope everybody got some ideas that will be usable to them in terms of creating activities that will engage and support student learning, at whatever level you may be working. Please post any ongoing questions or concerns you have here. Thanks, Dr. Andy

Filming of Sessions

Hello, I would like to do some filming of some of our classes. I was wondering if there might be one or two students who have a decent movie camera and would be willing to help by filming some of the sessions and posting them on youtube. I have a site already and can give you the access information if you wish to do this. Basically, it would involve shooting some video, doing a bit of editing, and posting the work to youtube each week. The videos can be used for review, plus it will be nice to have a record of what we are discussing. Later, we can use my movie camera, if needed, however right now it is being repaired.

You would write a short reflection of about a page regarding what you learned from the video taping and this would count as your application paper. I am Ok with two or possibly three students doing this as a team effort if they wish. The one page reflections would be individual, however.

Let me know in class tonight if you are interested, and maybe bring a movie camera if possible, so we can tape some of this first session. Thanks, Dr. Andy

Announcement regarding preparation materials for classes

Hi All, there have been a few technical issues with filefactory and it is currently not working as well as it had in earlier semesters. In order to ensure everybody gets copies of materials needed for classes, we will create an e-mail list next week in class and each week materials will be sent to all students via this e-mail listing. I will ask that presenters send me a short word file each week with a summary of your presentation and I will put this on the blog to aid in reflections and recall. You should also send any reading preparations students need to do for your presentation to the e-mail list the week prior to the presentation.

Please download these materials and then delete the e-mails each week to avoid oaveloading your mailboxes. This will not be needed for some high capacity e-mail services such as gmail.

I'll go over this in class to ensure we all have the same understandings.

Thanks, Dr. Andy

Assignments

For some reason my edit would not post, so I have to repost these rubrics:

http://www.filefactory.com/file/b40fcde/n/CI_6130_Rubric_for_application_papers.doc

http://www.filefactory.com/file/b40fcdf/n/CI_6130_Rubric_for_Classroom_Presentations.doc

Presentation schedule

Thanks a million to Manpreet, here is the presentation schedule! Andy

http://www.filefactory.com/file/b41c5e2/n/CI_6130_Seminar_in_Contemporary_Issues_in_Curriculum_and_Instruction_Presns.doc

Week One Questions, Concerns

Hi, today we went over the course, the syllabus, grading, expectations, and set up the classroom presentations for the rest of our course. I really feel fortunate to be working with such a terrific group, and look forward to our time together. Share any questions you may have here so we can help each other out. We did not really get into curriculum choices, but that is not a problem since the next fourteen weeks are going to be a discussion of them, so we can just let the ideas unfold week by week as we go along. I'm feeling very enthusastic that this is going to be a GREAT course! Best Wishes, Dr. Andy

Reflections Week One

Hi there, please post reflections as a comment on this post. Remember the format is a brief outline paragraph of something that had meaning or use to you, and three short examples of how you could use it in your role as an educator. Also, please feel free to comment on the reflections of your classmates! Thanks, Dr. Andy

CI 6130 Assignments

Hello All, here are the rubrics for your two major assignments this semester. See you in class! Best Wishes, Dr. Andy

CI 6130 Syllabus

Here is the course syllabus for your reference:

http://www.filefactory.com/file/b3hgbc9/n/CI_6130_Sem_in_Con_Iss_in_C_and_I.doc

Wecome to CI 6130

Dear Students: Welcome to CI 6130, Contemporary Issues in Curriculum and Instruction! I am looking forward to working with all of you. I hope this course will prove to be both rewarding and enriching and that it will help you develop in your careers as educators. I will provide a full syllabus shortly; but let me give you some basic information on the course to start you off on the right foot.

Since this course is primarily an interactive seminar, you will be engaged each week in discussions and presentations aimed primarily at developing instructional skills and enhancing your understanding of curriculum related matters.

I will do the first three sessions to give you an idea of presentation methods and processes:

Week One, Course intro. Curricular choices and options: How they are made, why they are made, and what impacts them

Week Two, Engaging the student: How curricular options impact learning

Week Three, Holistic approaches: Learning for all students, knowledge that is accessible and success driven

Following this, students will engage in interactive presentations which will take us through to Week Fifteen, when we will review for the exam which will then be held the last session, in Week Sixteen.

Course expectations and guidelines:

1. Attendence at a minimum of 80% of the course sessions

2. Submission of a reflection, via a comment on the blog post provided each week, including your thoughts in a short paragraph or two on what you have learned each week with three application ideas listed after the paragraph. You are asked to submit these for 10 of the 15 sessions only.

3. Submission of a research paper with an application of a curricular area of your choice to educational practices (8-10 pages, double spaced, times new roman 12 point font, APA format).

4. Presentation to the class with a partner (or possibly three per group, course numbers will determine this) using an area in curriculum and instruction, should include activities, followed by facilitating a panel discussion as outlined in class. This is to be interactive and involve contemporary processes.

5. Completion of a final exam. We will review the broad areas of coverage the session before the exam so please make sure this is NOT one of the classes you miss!

You may decide to do your application paper on some aspect of your presentation in order to combine things for the purposes of efficiency. This is perfectly acceptable.

Here are some suggested topics for potential application papers or presentations that you may want to consider looking at (but of course you are free to choose your own, just discuss/consult by e-mail with me first):

A. Creativity in curriculum, how to design and incorporate it
B. Discovery learning
C. Marzano's work on curriculum design and taxonomies
D. Anderson's revision of Bloom
E. Applying Bloom in effective curriculum design
F. Socratic questioning, what is it, how does it work, how can we use it
G. Metacognition and learning
H. Learning styles, how to incorporate them into curriculum choices and design
I. Multiple intelligences, how to incorporate them into curriculum choices and design
J. Spiralled curriculum, how to design and use it
K. California's standards and Thai national curriculum: A comparison of methods and applications
L. How culture affects curriculum choice and design
M. Designing curriculum to reach learners at all levels
N. Designing curriculum to incorporate developmentally appropriate practices
N. Authentic assessment

That's enough for now, please comment on here if you have questions.

Let's have a great course! Dr. Andy