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Unit Planner
How the World Works
Shapes allow us to make sense of and interact with our world.

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This is a document that I received from the Implementing student agency workshop I did last year. I love all the different questions that go with the different concepts.

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Teaching For Understanding
(To create and maintain the balance between the environment and survival)
- To meet the needs of the rapidly changing unpredictable world, highly complex job market, new jobs etc.

- To go beyond the learning facts
- To put theory to practice

- Moving from content coverage to uncovering the important transferable ideas and the learning processes.

CHALLENGES :
Giving children opportunities to actively argue, inquire, and articulate their understanding requires time. Though we strongly believe that the extended time is always worth it!
Balancing this to meeting individual learning styles whilst fulfilling the demands of the set curriculum is a tricky yet achievable task.

Suggestions :
- Where possible dissolve time-tables
- Integrate learning across subjects
- Create a culture of 'teaching by understanding' as a whole school language.
- Make the school/ parent community aware about the need and importance of doing so.

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We noticed one of the key ideas in this text was about applying their knowledge in real meaningful ways.

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Connections:
-In relation to the research on learning, one experience from our school is that we set certain assessment that require students to research on a specific topic.

Concepts:
- Technology-In the rapidly changing world we should make sure to implement technology in our teaching strategies ways as well. Media, technology tools in general is all around us and using iPads, computers to explore our units more could be useful.

-We connected with the technology section have noticed a huge change in education more focus on research skills etc. Need to teach children how to find, sort and evaluate the knowledge that they find.

Challenges- As we move away from coverage/skills/knowledge based etc and acknowledge that children all learn in different ways- this can be a challenge for teachers to differentiate for so many children with limited time/resources. Working in an international setting parents expectations can be a challenge with different cultures valuing rote learning more.

-Understanding- when educators can explain the concepts using their words and apply and interpret them in the classes looking from different perspectives help to create an effective curriculum.

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Teaching For Understanding
(To create and maintain the balance between the environment and survival)
- To meet the needs of the rapidly changing unpredictable world, highly complex job market, new jobs etc.

- To go beyond the learning facts
- To put theory to practice

- Moving from content coverage to uncovering the important transferable ideas and the learning processes.

CHALLENGES :
Giving children opportunities to actively argue, inquire, and articulate their understanding requires time. Though we strongly believe that the extended time is always worth it!
Balancing this to meeting individual learning styles whilst fulfilling the demands of the set curriculum is a tricky yet achievable task.

Suggestions :
- Where possible dissolve time-tables
- Integrate learning across subjects
- Create a culture of 'teaching by understanding' as a whole school language.
- Make the school/ parent community aware about the need and importance of doing so.

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Assessment of the UoI

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Learning experience- Joshua, Amik, Yunieta Payal

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Learning experience- Joshua, Amik, Yunieta Payal

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Joshua, Amik, Yunieta Payal

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Asynchronous Task - Group B: Nayaab, Arisyanti, Fiona

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Asynchronous Task - Group B: Nayaab, Arisyanti, Fiona

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Learning Experience - Group D, Claire Halse, Ekta Taneja, Shum Sze Yan

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Learning Experience - Group D, Claire Halse, Ekta Taneja, Shum Sze Yan

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Asynchronous Task - Megan, Kubra & Alcina

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Asynchronous Task - Megan, Kubra & Alcina

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Concept Tree- Group 4, Claire Halse, Ekta Taneja, Shum Sze Yan

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Concept Tree- Group 4, Claire Halse, Ekta Taneja, Shum Sze Yan

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Concept Tree- Group 2 (Arisyanti, Fiona, Nayab, Setyo)

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Concept Tree- Group 2 (Arisyanti, Fiona, Nayab, Setyo)

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Concept Tree -
Megan, Kubra and Alcina

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Concept Tree - Amik, Payal, Yunieta, Joshua

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Concept Tree - Amik, Payal, Yunieta, Joshua

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Example : culture, relationship, artifact, pattern

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Definition: A big idea, a thought or a plan which helps with your understanding
Characteristics: Ideas are broad, timeless, abstract, universal, open-ended, able to express and understand deeper. Individualised and meaningful learning
Example: living things, identity, responsibility
Non-example:

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Characteristik  general and unlimited

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Definition: include fact and skills
Characteristics: big ideas, not limit to time, place and language, open-ended
Example:
Non-examples:

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Characterictic:

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Concept: Big Idea
Characteristics: Universal, timeless
Example: Community, Systems, Media?, Adaptations
Non-examples: plants, solar system, cats

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characterictic : timeless, broad
example: living thing

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Definition: A big idea which could bring about a couple of understandings.
Characteristics:
Deep rooted understanding
open-ended
difference in perspective
should be able to question and challenge themselves
should be able to compare and contrast
should be able to connect with the real world scenario
should be able to connect prior knowledge with new
Examples: Patterns around us in the environment; patterns in structures of buildings, patterns in nature,

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Definition: Big idea
Characteristics: Timeless, Abstract, Universal, Transferable
Example: Identity, Responsibility, Conflict, Biodiversity, ecosystem, sustainability, System
Not Example: Energy, City, Wild animal, bullying, forest

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Definition of concept : the main idea

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Definition : set of ideas that children generate/ create whilst making sense of the content that is being taught/ explored.

Characteristics : Real world learning, making meaning, inquiry, wondering, researching, self - reflect, make connections, reflection, discussion, collaboration, community learning, growth mindset.

Example :
Hurricane, Tornado, Blizzard

Non - Example :
- Grass, Mountain, Colors

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Big idea, general thought

Characteristics : timeless, broad, Broad, Transferable, Abstracts

Examples : Biodiversity, Living things

Non examples ; Forest, animal, plants