{"id":139,"date":"2023-09-30T19:51:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T23:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-teaching-practices\/?p=139"},"modified":"2023-10-11T16:16:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T20:16:07","slug":"concept-based-curriculum-and-instruction-main-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-teaching-practices\/2023\/09\/concept-based-curriculum-and-instruction-main-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Main Points"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This class has been my first time taking a deep dive into CBCI. I believe I have begun to include the ideas of CBCI into my classroom without being able to put a name on it prior to this class. I can absolutely get behind this process of learning and I think it should be used across the board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CBCI takes change into account. The world evolves everyday so teachers and their classrooms need to be able to evolve with the world. Lynn Erickson explains a successful classroom environment when she began teaching had desks in straight rows and a teacher in the front of the room. This is not the only type of successful classroom now. A lot of teachers use grouping and student conversation to encourage learning, teachers walk around the room, there are activities that allow movement for students. Teaching then was all about facts and students being able to list information. Now, information is at the touch of our fingers. We need to be educating students minds and teaching them new ways to use their mind. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The design of a curriculum should be based on concepts. Together these concepts create a bigger picture. By teachers teaching concepts they allow students to dig deeper into their knowledge of each concept. This teaches students the process of learning therefore they can continue and grow into lifelong learners. Concepts are organized ideas and teaching through these and providing students with probing questions to find their own facts they will want to learn more about each concept.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Students are more likely to be engaged in a lesson they find to be relevant to their lives. I agree it is important for students to understand what they are learning and why. Students often ask why are we learning this? How will I use this in my life? Providing &#8220;real world&#8221; or &#8220;life like&#8221; scenarios helps with involvement in students. Movement, community based, or choice assignments are great ways to show students relevance to their learning. Showing students the process of solving real problems in our environments. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"553\" height=\"388\" data-id=\"147\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-teaching-practices\/files\/2023\/09\/real-world-probelms-image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-teaching-practices\/files\/2023\/09\/real-world-probelms-image.png 553w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-teaching-practices\/files\/2023\/09\/real-world-probelms-image-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CBCI Defined <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Concept-based curriculum and instruction is a choice educators make that influences their planning. It is a process in which curriculum is designed around concepts. These concepts allow students to find their own facts and build their own understanding through inquiry. Students dive deeper into these concepts and create a big picture or overview on their own with the guidance of their teacher. CBCI allows for teachers and students to fail and learn through their mistakes. I think of each concept being a different experiment and trying to find the correct answer at the end. For example a lesson I did with my own 8th grade math class this week was building an understanding of exponent properties. We used a desmos activity called <a href=\"https:\/\/teacher.desmos.com\/activitybuilder\/custom\/5e90afb80a08a46c84c6abef?collections=6516b3bccc73635fe76fb544\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/teacher.desmos.com\/activitybuilder\/custom\/5e90afb80a08a46c84c6abef?collections=6516b3bccc73635fe76fb544\">Discovering the Laws of Exponents<\/a> which encouraged students to try different patterns and numbers until they were right. It was an educated guess and check activity where students found the answer on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section alignfull alignfull getwid-section-content-custom-width\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__wrapper getwid-padding-left-medium getwid-padding-right-medium\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-wrapper\" style=\"max-width:740px\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background-holder\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__foreground\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__content\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading__content\" style=\"text-align:center\">My Lesson Plan<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:50px;margin-top:10px\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading__content\" style=\"text-align:center\">The Pythagorean Theorem<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-teaching-practices\/files\/2023\/09\/pythagorean-theroem.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Overview: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am hopeful to encourage students to find the pattern themselves on how to use the Pythagorean Theorem. I mentioned a Desmos activity above, I will use a similar activity on Desmos again called <a href=\"https:\/\/teacher.desmos.com\/activitybuilder\/custom\/5d23bd86cbc7a96547fb27ca?collections=featured-collections,5e6fe60ba5ff3e0aca46ba6a\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/teacher.desmos.com\/activitybuilder\/custom\/5d23bd86cbc7a96547fb27ca?collections=featured-collections,5e6fe60ba5ff3e0aca46ba6a\">Taco Truck<\/a>. I often use Desmos because it can simulate a life like situation that students may find themselves in. It also allows students to try different things and see their peers responses as well. I believe our own students are a large resource we don&#8217;t always think about. When I am struggling to put a concept into words my students can help and make the concept make sense to their peers. This is an awesome and useful tool with the desmos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Challenges:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The challenges I face with this unit will be how to enrich it and take some students to a deeper level of understanding. I want to create hands on experiences for students and would like to take students outside to our schools soccer field and build a lesson where we prove right angles using the Pythagorean Theorem. I worry about the set up of this lesson. How do I ensure each activity builds upon and reaches all students, including my ESL students?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section alignfull alignfull getwid-section-content-custom-width\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__wrapper getwid-padding-top-large getwid-padding-bottom-large getwid-padding-left-medium getwid-padding-right-medium\" style=\"min-height:70vh\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-wrapper\" style=\"max-width:1140px\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background-holder\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ffe3ea\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__foreground\" style=\"opacity:0.5;background-color:#000000\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__content\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TCE Threshold concepts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#ffffff\"><strong>Curriculum is more than standards, textbooks, or course of study.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students learn a vast amount of new things everyday. From the process of getting up and going to school. Students are learning responsibility and routine before the beginning of the day bell even rings. I like the question of what should a teacher learn to be a teacher, but the next question made me think even harder, is there anything a teacher needs to unlearn. In my first graduate class I made a comment that was not appropriate about normalcy. I hadn&#8217;t thought twice about it until our professor called mentioned at the end of the class that we all were talking about things that might be normal in our lives but not in our students lives. I believe there are things teachers can learn and unlearn everyday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#ffffff\"><strong>Teach<\/strong>ers and students engage in critical-consciousness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teachers need to fully understand their biases and their positions on different topics in order to put them aside and teach their students in an unbiased way. Teachers must understand their students in a way they can fully engage the students in their learning. Learning requires students to be gaining the knowledge in a useful way. Teachers need to understand the lives of their students in this aspect. In the  school or community what is important and can it be used in the classroom to create meaningful lessons. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out my tweet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MathwWilson10\/status\/1708268028595511733?s=20\">https:\/\/x.com\/MathwWilson10\/status\/1708268028595511733?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This class has been my first time taking a deep dive into CBCI. 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