Sept+2012+-+Concept-based+Curriculum

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 * 1) MYPChat Discussion 1 (September 2012): Concept-based Curriculum


 * Stimulus for this month's chat: **
 * IB Position Paper on Concept-based teaching and learning, by H. Lynn Erickson

Discussion will run on Twitter **from 1st Sept 2012** (for a week or so) and will be archived here. Please use the #MYPChat hashtag in all posts. Follow the discussion: Twitter Search - Interactive Map of Chats - Searchable timeline

Stimulus questions
(participants can suggest more as the chat progresses, and they'll be added here). In your tweets, please identify to which question you are responding by starting with A1, A2 etc. Don't forget to include #MYPChat in the tweet to make sure it is picked up in feeds and on TweetChat.
 * Q1: How can we make #ConceptBL visible in the classroom?
 * Q2: Where do similarities between#ConceptBL and #UbD lie and how to best clarify these to stakeholders?
 * Q3: Strategies for implementing#ConceptBL yet ensuring solid prep for #IBDP?
 * Q4: What's the difference between #ConceptBL and #InquiryBL?

//To suggest topics for future discussions, please add them (with links to stimulus material/ article) on Wallwisher here.//

Online

 * **Shortlink (?)** || **Description** ||
 * http://goo.gl/6A5K9 || Lots of useful concept-driven learning links via #pypchat wiki ||
 * http://goo.gl/CjhaJ || National Academies Press (2000). How people learn: brain, mind, experience & school. (online book) ||
 * http://goo.gl/nqMV0 || Corwin.com Introduction to the Parallel Curriculum (pdf) ||
 * http://goo.gl/JzyJD || Lynn Erickson presents @IBAEM regional conference 2011, video embedded below. ||
 * http://goo.gl/BNop1 || Edna Sackson's post on concept-driven learning in action in a class. Clear and useful. ||

Books

 * Tomlinson & McTighe (2006). Integrating differentiated instruction &Understanding by Design (Amazon)
 * National Academies Press (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience and school (full text online)
 * Tomlinson et al (2008). The Parallel Curriculum: A design to develop learner potential and challenge advanced learners (Amazon)

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 * Some useful quotes **
 * Video 08.35 //"Facts are important [...] The question is balance. How much time are we spending on facts and how are we using the facts to develop deeper conceptual understanding that can transfer?"//
 * Video 17.08 //"If you cannot articulate what you want students to understand, then how do you know they have understanding?"//

Storify: Questions & Resources
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Chat Map: #Concept-based learning
Click to go to the map of archived tweets, or click here for a linear view.

Storify Archive
Aaaargh! Storify didn't grab all the tweets- it can't go back very far. Better use the linear view generated by @mhawksey's Google Spreadsheet here.

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