Curriculum

 Sofia, Nati, Sydney

PART 1: 

Who’s your audience? 

Kids with special needs.

What is the transformation sought? (Objective)

By engaing with our curriculum these kids with go through an experience consisting of provide a supportive and inclusive environemnt that will transform them to feel more comfortable and confident in the real world and make connections with peers. 

What is the mode/context of this curriculum? 

We would be teaching every week. Once a week.

What do they want from you?

They would want a cirriculum that would give them an inclusive community, find a new way to express themselves, and learn.  

Verbal to visual classroom: 

tricky to define who you are making the coruse for but you can devide it from learners and makers. When building your cirriculum you can send out a servey on what people wanted to learn, why they were intrested, etc. This allowed him to better create an experience that was able to meet these people's needs. 

Notes on video:  

2 main objectives: gather what they want to learn from you and the best way that they learn. Then teach them the best solutions to the way inwhich they learn. If its note taking, teach them the best way to do note taking. Set them up with sucess. 

9 modual course: 

Part 2: 

In which way is Neal's method creative?

The Clothesline Method:

This method gives you a way to sequence ideas. You need to know where ur studnets are startign from and where you want them to end up at the end of this experience. 

This is a visual way to see what you are going to do. There are different steps and each step is a different class.

There are units and the units include all the lessons that it will take to finish the unit. 

You have flexibility in how you move around ideas. Fun to use. 

It is a method that can change easily and this is important because you dont know exactly what students you are dealing with until you get there. Visual Note taking is the best. 

1st stage: getting ideas down in order. When you step away and not look at it for a while, you may come up with ideas and want to add them to the cirriculum. When you love to teach, you are going to use outside experiences in your class and feel inspired by stuff. 

THIS IS THE IMAGE OF OUR CLOTHES LINE
improves one.pdf
 

Part 3: 

Why are empathy maps important to develop the curriculum? 

What you start with is a drawing of a persons head, and this represents a stduent in your class. The you create sections around the student with their characteristics. What they are thinking, what they are feeling, what they hear, what they say, and feel. 

It allows you to have empathy for someone else, you are getting into their experience and see thier world from their point of view. Its important to tap into thier perspective for the people we are building a ciriculum for. You need to know your AUDIENCE. 

THIS IS THE IMAGE OF OUR EMPATHY MAP:

earn now to dance freely..pdf
 

Part 4: 

Why are adjustments and improvements to the curriculum necessary?

Beocme. areflective practitioner. You need to make sure your kids GET IT. What they dont get is not because they are dumb its because you havent build your ciriculum for them. 

Everyone is different and nothing is perfect. Things must be modified during the ciriculum to better suite your students because you want your students to actually learn and things are not always going to work out in the beginning. 

Make an adjustment: 

Ask yourself, is it better now? If its not then throw it away and start over, but its its good then keep it.