CEP Templeton Project: Webinar & On-Line Learning

VI – Providing a Meaningful Academic Curriculum & VII – Fostering Students’ Intrinsic Motivation

CEP Templeton Project: Webinar & On-Line Learning

VI – Providing a Meaningful Academic Curriculum & VII – Fostering Students’ Intrinsic Motivation

Richard BenjaminJuly 2011

4.1 OverviewUsing CE to multiply classroom engagement,

learning, retention & application *******Key Focus is using CE as an end in itself and as a proven tool/strategy for boosting student learning**

• Consider• Core & Performance Values• Consider• Social-Emotional Learning as a tool to

enhance learning, and as an end in itself• Consider• CE strategies derived from Marzano’s

Nine, and Howard Gardner / Project Zero Artful Thinking Project

•  • Intro boiler plate and intro topic and

speaker•  • Hook—How can we help our students

work and reason with core values?•  • Perhaps – How do we invite our students

to love learning and to do good and to do well?

•  • Recognition of strategies to promote

student engagement and autonomy•  

• Intro to distinction between moral and performance character

•  • Applications of core value in performance

character in elem, MS and HS•  • Intro to cognitive reasoning categories

(such as Bloom) to highlight goal of teaching students to reason (analysis and evaluation) using core values and Golden Rule as a guide for ethical thinking.

•  • At upper levels, to compare and contrast

key frameworks (along with the Golden Rule) for making ethical decisions….and how to apply them to past and current events in science and in social studies…..

4.2 Overview• 4.2• Character in the Curriculum (part 2)

(rb would develop this one if it is available)

•  • Brief overview of webinar 4.1 with lead in

to teaching reason strategies with core values

•  • Age appropriate examples in literature•  • Age appropriate examples in social

studies•  • Age appropriate examples in ……. Science

/ Math

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• Arts / PE ……Cyprus Woods •  • Value of professional development and

peer demonstration to advance strategies• Collaborative Analysis of Student Work /

Collaborative development of Integrated Units “Meaning

Introduction to Principle VI

Provide a Meaningful Academic Curriculum

• When teachers bring to the fore the character dimension of the curriculum, they enhance the relevance of subject matter to students’ natural interests and questions, and in the process, increase student engagement and achievement. p1

How can schools harness the time and energy going into academics to simultaneously (and naturally) promote character development? p2

How can schools enhance academic learning through character development? p2

CEP Principle # 6 – Provide a Meaningful Academic Curriculum

• Meaningful• Connect to

interests and background knowledge

• Academic Curriculum

• Address Traditional Basics– Math, Language Arts, Science,

Social Studies

• Address (and model) 21st Century Standards– Critical + Creative Thinking &

Problem Solving, Design & Imagination, Collaboration

Character & Achievement(A Reinforcing Loop)

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How can schools harness the time and energy going into academics to simultaneously (and naturally) promote character development? p2

How can schools enhance academic learning through character development? p2

Good Character as a means to improve academic learning, and as a desired end or goal of schooling….

Respect

• Show Respect• to• Get Respect

• Respect the Student interests & priorities– Affiliation– Music– Other

• Class Meetings– Show Respect by

listening and acting on suggestions to improve the learning classroom

Character & Achievement(A Reinforcing Loop)

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Panter ACH Data Panter CHARACTER Outcomes

Nancy Lee Report / Reflections

Audra Knight VideoAudra Knight Writing Samples

Create fishbone

Find ‘alignment’ arrows

“Character Connections”- Natural Intersections

• Current ethical issues in Science

• Debating historical practices and decisions

• Discussing character traits and ethical dilemmas in (history) and literature

• Other

Meaningful Curriculum

• Student Voice & Choice• Cooperative Learning• Problem-Solving Approaches• Project-Based Learning• Experience-Based Projects

Principles of Engagement

• Student Interests• Authentic

Learning Experiences

• ‘Voice & Choice’• Challenge• (Appropriate)

Competition• Intrinsic Rewards

• Add from Schlechty

Culture• Culture • Mobius