Discussing the Day

1. What were the most important new discoveries and insights?
2. How might you make use of some of this material with your class?
3. What concerns surfaced?
4. What could the district do to help you with those concerns?

Expected Outcomes

Now that you have had taste of standards-based learning units, how would you rate your experience today? To what extent did you realize the following outcomes?

5 - Very much so

4 - To a large extent

3 - Somewhat

2 - Not much

1 - Not at all

__ 1) Taste a brief introduction to standards-based curriculum units that make good use of old and new technologies;

__ 2) Understand the importance of information literacy, information power and essential questions while addressing the challenge of teaching students to analyze, interpret and infer;

__ 3) Grasp the advantages of scaffolding when building curriculum units;

__ 4) See the value of blending new technologies with more classical tools.

__ 5) Gain confidence in the use of new tools and strategies.