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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. Robert L. Stevenson Work to become, not to acquire. Elbert Hubbard Time Activity/Process Materials/Equipment 10 min Community building Introductions (facilitators and participants)   10 min Strategies for sharing digitized objects — thinking "big" Group examine document set using "white gloves" and magnifying glass. Facilitator prompts: What do you know about these documents? What do you think you know? What do you wonder? Primary Source Documents Recording Form Requires: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 10 min Define the essence of a set of images. What's the "big idea"? Groups work to define the "big idea" from selected images. Sharing and discussion. Primary Source Documents 15 min Effective and engaging: exercise and discussion Review prior activity: Was it engaging? Was it effective (what did you learn)? Why? Participants complete the "effective and engaging" worksheet. Whole group discussion Web Prompt   Curriculum Design Tool: Effective and Engaging Requires: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 15 min What is really important to know? Leader facilitation and group discussion: What is worth being familiar with? What is important to know and do? What is the enduring understanding? What is the "big question" addressed by your lesson? Web Prompt Primary Source Documents 30 min Application: What is really important to know? Participants will define the "big question" which their lesson addresses. Using the provided tool, participants will articulate learning outcomes/enduring understandings (per previous discussion) for their project. Facilitators guide a group share out and discussion (were enduring understandings identified? did they "get it"?) Participants' Images Curriculum Design Tool: Enduring Understanding Requires: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0   20 min Aligning curriculum Enduring Understanding-> <- Assessment -> <- Learning Experiences Facilitator guided discussion — the interrelationships between distilling enduring understanding(s); identifying appropriate assessments; creating experiences, strategies and lessons that allow students to develop required skills and understandings. Share Curriculum Design Tools Web Prompts: Curriculum Design Overview Ways to show understanding Kinds of assessments Pattern for Design Curriculum Design Tools: Assessment Idea Generator Pattern for Design Requires: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 10 min Applying workshop concepts to Team Projects Facilitators describe "homework" — by Thursday participants will post the following information about their Fellows' project to their wall chart: a working title the enduring understanding(s) a plan for assessment process and/or instruments an outline of skills, knowledge, strategies, experiences necessary to attain desired learning outcomes Participants label charts and place them on the walls Curriculum Design Tools — Recap Chart paper and supplies