Designing the Classroom Curriculum Designing the Classroom Curriculum | Page 76

Designing the Classroom Curriculum Planning for teaching activities on a daily basis is really the “nitty gritty” of a teacher’s work and is characterised by the teacher laying out the specific steps that will constitute their teaching strategy. There are three key considerations involved in answering this question on both levels. 1. Using the answers to the previous Learning Management questions, decide how each contribute to the decisions you must make in developing your overall teaching strategy. 2. Assign Syllabus Learning Outcomes to direct each teaching episode --- to show a direct link to what has to be achieved; 3. Use a Pedagogic Framework 28 to guide your Teaching Plan developments. Table 6.2, is one such framework and is based on ‘Dimensions of Learning’ 29 A pedagogic framework, such as Dimensions of Learning, acts as a guide for the teacher when they design teaching episodes. A pedagogic framework is underpinned and thus explicitly referenced to an evidence base to enable the teacher to apply strategies that are known to have a high probability of learning success. A. The Steps to Follow for the School Term Plan Step 1: Decide how you will deliver a Classroom Curriculum during the term: (1) As a series of Stand-alone key learning areas / subjects organised according to stipulated time allocations, or (2) As an integrated approach, where all key learning areas / subjects are integrated into one seamless course of study over the school week, generally through a theme, or (3) As a combination of standalone and integrated approaches. 28 A pedagogic framework provides the teacher with a structure for teaching in that this structure links the ‘what’ the teacher does to a defined evidence base. 29 See http://files.hbe.com.au/samplepages/197133.pdf 76