#FutureReady204 BOARD OF EDUCATION PRESENTATION JANUARY 22, 2018 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

#FutureReady204 BOARD OF EDUCATION PRESENTATION JANUARY 22, 2018

Purpose Our purpose is: • To provide the Board of Education with an update about our work with #FutureReady204 Board Policy 6:230 Library Media Program 6:210 Instructional Materials 2

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Curriculum and Instruction Implementation Plan • Future Ready Skills • Flexible Delivery of Instruction • Document and Use Results • Provide a Research Based Curriculum 4

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What is Future Ready? Build Life and Work Skills Move away from teaching what computers and robots can do for us. Allison Gopnik, University of California 6

Prepare Students for Life and Work Top 10 Work Core Related Skills 1. Complex Problem Solving 6. Emotional Intelligence 2. Critical Thinking 7. Judgment and Decision Making 3. Creativity 8. Service Orientation 4. People Management 9. Negotiation 5. Coordinating with Others 10. Cognitive Flexibility Source: The Future of Jobs (World Economic Forum, 2016) 7

Computer Science is the art of 1. Complex Problem Solving blending human 2. Critical Thinking ideas and digital 3. Creativity tools to increase problem solving 10. Cognitive Flexibility power. Makerspaces developed in all buildings. • Provide Coding Opportunities • Create Solutions to Problems • Persistence Through Reflection and Revising • Supports Sequential and Critical Thinking Focus on the Elementary – Move Makerspaces from LMC into Classrooms Lumity 8

WE OFFER Middle School - • 6th Grade - Essential Tech • 7th Grade - Creative Tech • 8th Grade - Tech Rev Steve Jobs • PLTW AR - Robotics programming High School- • Coding (semester) - JavaScript “Everyone in this • Web Design (HTML) country should learn • Emerging Tech (portions of the course are dedicated to app development) how to program a • PLTW Principles of Engineering - Programming throughout the course - computer. Everyone mechanical engineering background should learn a • PLTW EDD - Depends on a student’s self-initiated project computer language • PLTW Digital Electronics - Computing through circuits because it teaches you • Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles how to think.” • Advanced Placement Computer Science A Robotics at all three levels 9

5. Coordinating with Others Prepare Students 7. Judgment and Decision for Life and Work 9. Negotiation The Harvard Business Review found that ‘‘the time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has Instructional Strategies ballooned by 50 percent or more over the last two decades • Planning Projects with Others and that, at many companies, more than three-quarters of an • Help Students Evaluate and Seek More Information employee’s day is spent communicating with • Cooperative Group Work colleagues.” 10

4. People Management 6. Emotional Intelligence 8. Service Orientation Prepare Students for Life and Work Student Wellness • Service Projects • Social Emotional Learning Standards • Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning . Partnership • Mental Health Professionals available to all Students • District Social Worker and Psychologists • Counselors at Middle School and High School • Partnership with 360 Youth Services • Teacher Training • Community Resources 11

Student Engagement Prepare Students • Broad curriculum offerings from rigorous Advanced Placement to a wide variety of electives for Life and Work • Interest and Inquiry — Science and Social Studies • Extra-Curricular Opportunities • Flexible Learning Spaces . • Flexible Delivery of Instruction • Online • Blended • Traditional 12

Authentic Learning Experiences Prepare Students • Science Phenomena • Family and Consumer Sciences for Life and Work • Internships • Virtual Enterprise International • Media . • Technology Center of DuPage • Cosmetology • Fire Science • Criminal Justice 13

Future Ready Challenges • Meeting the Changing Needs of Our Students • Cannot Predict the Careers of the Future • Investigating an Elementary Career Awareness Program • College and Career Days • Partnerships with Businesses • Innovation Labs • Prepare Students for Whatever They Choose 14

Thank you for your time! 15