Bill Robertson, Ph.D. - Classes
Teacher Education Department
SCED 3311 - Curriculum Planning in Secondary Schools - Guiding Questions
Activity in Small Groups – Cultural Portrait (30 min)
- Interview – discuss the person you interviewed with a small group of 4 (your discussion group) and share your observations that you produced from your narrative.
- Guiding questions: How can we best recognize the ways our students view the world? The classroom? Our subject areas? How can we overcome our own assumptions of students?
Activity 2 in Small Groups (35 min)
- With the copy of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) brought from your area of teaching.
- Organize into pairs within your content area
- Using Figure 1.2 on pg. 10 as your guide, begin to define the curricular priorities for your subject area and to define the fundamental concepts to be addressed in a curriculum
- Discuss how you would organize the concepts from simple to complex
Bill Robertson, Ph.D. (robertson@utep.edu)
Teacher Education Department, College of Education, University of Texas at El Paso