Successful Curriculum Alignment Workshop Series
Having a concise continuum for curriculum is an ultimate goal for mapping the taught curriculum. In this workshop series we will examine vertical and horizontal integration of curriculum and how department or discipline specific heads and chairs can propel their articulation.
Day 1: Uncovering Multi-Disciplinary Skills
There are underlying commonalities within the taught curriculum for all departments and disciplines. Step back to review what skills are being taught in all departments and examine its impact on the connected curriculum.
Workshop Objectives:
- Explore how student centric skills like critical thinking and reading, can be reinforced and covered in all disciplines
- Examine different strategies for integrating skills
- Scaffold non-discipline specific skills into a continuum
Day 2: Discipline Analysis for Alignment
A key component throughout Rubicon’s Methodology is curricular review and alignment. Come prepared to address the top five issues facing your department and discover new strategies and ideas from other Atlas peers.
Workshop Objectives:
- Conduct a thorough analysis of your discipline
- Create a series of reports and protocols to facilitate conversation and review
- Explore innovative teaching practices within your discipline and how to embed them into the taught curriculum
Day 3: Build Tools and Resources*
Prerequisite: Attend a prior AEC workshop session
Apply the understandings gained from the previous workshop days to expand the knowledge and resources needed to support the curriculum process at your school or district. Spend the day with Rubicon Consultants identifying questions and developing a strategic tool to share with your colleagues.
Through guided brainstorming previous participants have focused their day on one of the following:
- Explore new strategies to document multi-disciplinary skills and make any updates to your Atlas system to meet these initiatives
- Engage your discipline in using Atlas to explore key questions through a presentation or podcast
- Begin to develop common language for the different disciplines to best support curriculum analysis
- Update your Atlas system to reflect the current curriculum initiatives
Day 4: Refine and Reflect
Prerequisite: Attend Build Tools and Resources
Take time to present and gain feedback on tools and resources developed in previous sessions. Participants will have the opportunity to work individually, with their team to make revisions or spend one on one time with an Rubicon consultant.
Workshop Objectives:
- Practice protocols to giving and receiving constructive feedback on work
- Seize the opportunity to return with completed products necessary to support your process
- Celebrate the successes achieved
- Spend individual time with an Rubicon consultant to answer any critical questions
* Workshop begins at 8:00 am.
