# data[].attributes.body
1. Learning Standards
2. Soft Skills
3. Application

# data[].attributes.headline
Soft Skills That Need to Be Curriculum! 

# data[].attributes.subject
Soft Skills That Need to Be Curriculum! 

# data[].attributes.body
1. Problem Solving Skills
2. Research Skills
3. Interpretation
4. Communication
5. Precision

# data[].attributes.body
1. Critical Thinking
2. Communication
3. Collaboration
4. Creativity

# data[].attributes.body
1. Students should be creating the technology not just using it.
2. When students are creating the technology the teacher is now becoming the facilitator.

# data[].attributes.headline
Four Keys to College and Career Readiness

# data[].attributes.subject
Four Keys to College and Career Readiness

# data[].attributes.headline
Four Keys to College and Career Readiness: Model

# data[].attributes.subject
Four Keys to College and Career Readiness: Model

# data[].attributes.body
1. Key Cognitive Strategies:
( Think)
2. Key Content Knowledge:
( Know)
3. Key Learning Skills and Techniques: ( Act)
4. Key Transition Knowledge and Skills: ( Go)

# data[].attributes.body
Motivation - Student motivation is required for student involvement in learning.  What and how effectively students learn will be determined by their motivation.

# data[].attributes.body
DEVELOPMENT - Praise for effort and for improvement can build a student’s self-confidence.  Esteem can be boosted by emphasizing his or her performance relative to personal goals.  It is important for students to feel seen and understood.

Guided discussion is motivating and allows for critical thinking, analysis and synthesis of information.  These motivate and drive their thinking.

Reinforcement strategies that are beneficial to students include reviewing notes and and concepts on study guides.

Positive social interactions with peers through groups, group discussions, group projects and group presentations.

Storytelling

DEVELOPMENT - Making class student centered, simulating, entertaining and interactive.  Humor results in more attention, interest, positive rapport and retention of material.

DEVELOPMENT - Students working together to determine answers and create explanations.

# data[].attributes.body
When focusing on advanced topics (math but could be used in other subject area as well) student achievement grew more quickly than when they focused on basic topics.

When teachers participate in professional development that focused on instructional strategies, they were more likely to teach in ways that fostered more student growth.

Differentiated instruction results promotes individual student growth.

# data[].attributes.body
Curriculum has been "a thing" since historians taught their children a sequence of skills that that they passed down to their children. This was teaching and the totality of the student's (child's) experience was the skill they gleaned. Now we have a planned sequence of instruction, perhaps just as our skilled forefathers had, but our schools and instructional goals have come to look very different.

# data[].attributes.headline
Curricular Structures that Heed the greatest return on our investment? 

# data[].attributes.subject
Curricular Structures that Heed the greatest return on our investment? 

# data[].attributes.body
1. Creative Thinking Tasks
2. Critical Thinking Tasks
3. Collaborative Work
4. Digital Work that goes beyond keyboarding 101 and Intro to Google Docs.
5. All things Problem Solving

# data[].attributes.body
-Decided what school curriculum would look like:
-need for standardization throughout the country
-critical thinking vs. memorization
-all students should be taught the same material K-8 to prepare for high school
-American schools still follow many of these same recommendations
*6 hour school day
*180 school days
Hayes Jacobs, H. (2010

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Curriculum Design Part 1: The High-Level Planning

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Curriculum Design Part 3: Producing The Material

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The use of an empathy map could be a game-changer! An Introduction To Visual Note-Taking: http://geni.us/DFJw0 Show notes for this video: http://geni.us/4AJr3 My name is Doug Neill and I'm passionate about creativity. I teach a skill called sketchnoting (also known as visual note-taking and graphic recording), which for me is a gateway to doing better work.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
References: Association for Career and Technical Education (2011). What is 'career ready?' Retrieved from Association for Career and Technical Education website: http://www.acteonline.org/uploadedFiles/Publications_and_Online_Media/files/Career_Readiness_Paper.pdf Conley, D. (2007). Toward a more comprehensive conception of college readiness. Educational Policy Improvement Center. Retrieved from: http://www.s4s.org/upload/Gates-College%20Readiness.pdf Curry, J., & Milsom, A. (2013).

# data[].attributes.body
http://pcsaighandbook.weebly.com/curriculum-models.html
slideshare.net
researchgate.net
Carley Everett's personal collection