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Curriculum Report

This document describes Project CHILD, an educational model originally developed at Florida State University. It has three main goals: modifying school structure to support technology-based learning, fostering strategic thinking, and realigning curricula for core subjects. Project CHILD uses a triangulated teaching approach where clusters of three teachers specialize in and rotate between technology, hands-on, and traditional classrooms. It provides detailed planning guidelines, activities, and other materials to support its collaborative, cross-curricular instructional model.

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Curriculum Report

This document describes Project CHILD, an educational model originally developed at Florida State University. It has three main goals: modifying school structure to support technology-based learning, fostering strategic thinking, and realigning curricula for core subjects. Project CHILD uses a triangulated teaching approach where clusters of three teachers specialize in and rotate between technology, hands-on, and traditional classrooms. It provides detailed planning guidelines, activities, and other materials to support its collaborative, cross-curricular instructional model.

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GLOBAL

CURRICULUM
INNOVATIONS

PROJECT CHILD ( COMPUTER HELPING


INSTRUCTION AND LEARNING
DEVELOPMENT

ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED AT
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY BY:
DR. SALLY BUTZIN.
CHILD BRIDGES TODAYS SCHOOL
WITH THE SCHOOL OF FUTURE

CHILD GOALS ARE TO:


MODIFY THE SCHOOL STRUCTURE TO

CREATE CLASSROOM CONDITIONS


CONDUCIVE TO LEARNING WITH
TECHNOLOGY.
CREATE A COHESIVE UNIT OF WORK
THAT FOSTERS STRATEGIES FOR
THINKING.
REIGN CURRICULUM FOR READING
LANGUAGE ARTS AND MATHEMATICS

STRUCTURE AND PROCEDURE OF CHILD


CHILD focuses on K-5 self-contained teaching
using a triangulated approach. Cluster of three
experts work across three grade levels to teach
three basic formats in technology, hands-on and
paper and pencil. The primary level cluster is
made up of K to grade 2 and the intermediate
cluster is grade 3-5. One classroom is set up for
reading, one for writing and one for
mathematics. Each of the three teachers in each
cluster becomes content specialist for one of the
three Project CHILD subject areas. He/she is also

Learners from each grade level in the cluster move among the classrooms to
spend one hour per day working in each of the three majors areas. Thus the
teachers will work in their specialized field with the same learners for three
years.

Six stations or learning centers in a Project CHILD


classroom.

Computer station for the technology-based learning.


Textbook station for written work.
Challenge station for activities in game formats.
The imagination station for creative expression.
Exploration station for hands-on activities.
Teacher station for additional instructional support.

Learners follow a precise management plan for moving from one


station to the another. Goals are set and activities are recorded in a
book called passport. Required curriculum content is covered in six-

Project CHILD Materials


Station Planning Guidelines - The planning guidelines
are organized in six weeks topical units. The contents
include suggested software which are referenced to state
standards, teaching tips, skills checklists for each grade
level, list of materials and resources, and station activity
pages.
Station activities/ Task cards - A companion of

station planning guidelines, provide ideas for


hands on station activities. It directs the learners
to work, since specific objectives and directions
are given for them to work independently and

Passport- This is the management tool to help students


become organized and focused on their work. It is also used to
set and assess the goals of the learners. The passport is
brought home after the end of the six week unit for the parents
to look into. In this way the parents become an integral part of
the learning team. Both the parents and the learners will
understand
the academic
significance
the teachers
station activities.
TeacherS ManualA complete
guide toof
assist
in
implementing the child instructional program. The manual include the
Overview of CHILD, Getting started, Planning Station Activities,
Assessment, Managing the Classroom, Roles and Responsibilities, and
Essential Components. It has also a portion for record keeping, students
certificates and other classroom management tools.

Leadership Guide- It is composing of materials in

making presentations to community groups and


strategies to involve the school adopting the
effective practices in Project CHILD.
Special Needs Inclusion Guide- A timely resource
for both regular and exceptional teachers to support
the inclusion of special needs in classroom.
Training Facilitator Guide- It includes comprehensive
trainings, overviews, transparencies and handouts
for workshop participations.

All of the above materials are needed for


the successful implementation of the
curriculum. The teacher receives special
year long training in their content
especially in classroom management
techniques and computer integration
skills. Teachers continue their professional
development through on 0going selfstudy, in-service, action research and by
becoming mentors for new CHILD
teachers. CHILD provides a risk-free

Brain-Based Learning
For two thousand years there have been
primitive models of how the brain works. Up to the
middle of 1990s, the brain was compared to a
central switchboard. In 1970, the brain theory
focused on the right and left brain. Paul McClean
later used the concept of triune brain to refer to the
evolution of the human three part brain. According
to triune theory, survival leaving is in the lower
brain, emotions were in the mid-brain, and higher
order thinking took place in the upper brain.
However, the current brain theory embraces the
whole systems, complex brain model.

Brain-based learning is an approach to teaching based on


research in neuroscience. It suggests that our brain learns
naturally. This theory is based on what is currently known about
the structure and function of the brain at the varying stages of
development. This provides a biologically driven framework for
teaching and learning, and helps the recurring learning
behaviors. Brain-based theory includes an eclectic mix of
techniques. Currently these techniques stress allowing teachers
to connect learning to students learning real life experiences.
This form of learning also encompasses education concepts
like mastery learning, problem based-learning, cooperative
education, multiple intelligence, learning styles, experiential
learning, among others.

Core Principles Guiding Brain-Based Education

The brain perceives whole and parts


simultaneously.
The brain is a parallel processor which can
perform activities at once.
Information is stored in multiple areas of the
brain and is retrieved through multiple memory
and neutral path ways.
Learning engages the whole body. All learning is
mind- body: movement, food, attention cycles,
chemicals modulate learning.
Humans search for meaning is innate.

Emotions are critical to patterning and drive our attention,


meaning and memory.
Meaning is more important than information.
Learning involves focused attention and peripheral
perception. We have two types of memory: spatial and rote.
The brain is social. It develops better in concert with other
brains.
Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by
stress.
Every brain is uniquely organized.
Learning is developmental.

.From the principles regarding the brain-based


theory several interactive teaching elements
emerged. Orchestrated immersion - Learning
environments are created to provide authentic
learning experiences. For example in the
elementary level, teachers can use the
schools mini forest to identify trees, animals
and other plants and find out how they live
together. High school students can go on field
trip to a nearby forest or mangrove to observe
and identify symbiotic relationships,

Relaxed alertness
In brain-based learning, efforts are made to
eliminate fear while maintaining a highly challenging
environment. Teachers may play classical music when
appropriate to set a relaxed tone in the classroom.
Bright lights are dimmed. scented candles are lighted to
calm the senses or stimulate the senses. All learners are
accepted with their various learning styles, capabilities
and disabilities. These will all provide a relaxed
accepting environment. Children are motivated to bring
in the best of themselves and bring out their potentials .

1.Active processing
The learners consolidate and internalize
information by actually processing these
information. Prior learning has been given
recognition as having connections to current
information. Preparatory activity is made
before a unit of study is begun. The teacher
prepares the stage to attach new
information learners to prior knowledge.
Twelve

Need of rich stimulating environments which utilized


student created materials and products. These are
displayed on bulletin boards and display areas.
Tables and desks are grouped together to develop
social interactions, cooperation and develop social
skills.
Learners must provide comfortable chairs and
furniture for casual and informal discussion areas.
Large pillows and carpeted floors will be most useful.
Indoor and outdoor spaces should be linked so that
students can move about freely.

1.Learners should be provided safe places so that


threat will be reduced, especially in city places.
2. There must be variety of learning centers or nooks
with varied lightings. Some children prefer to work
together in different nooks or corners by themselves.
3. Displays in the classrooms should be change
regularly to stimulate the brain development.
4.Provide student stage sets where they can act out
scenes from their readings or demonstrate science
principles or act out a dialogue between historical
figures.

5.Provide multiple resource. Provide educational, physical,


and variety of setting with in the classrooms so that learning
activities can be integrated easily. Computers areas, wet
areas, experimental sciences should be in close proximity to
each other. The goal of the facility is multiple function.
6. Flexibility is a principle that has been recognized long
before. The teachable moment must be recognized and
capitalized on.
7.Active and passive places should be provided for students
to develop their interpersonal and intrapersonal
intelligences.
8 . A personal space of learners like locker, desk or a home
base is provided each child to allow him/her to express
his/her unique identity.
9.The community is utilized as a primary learning

The brain can grow connections at any


age. Challenging experiences with
appropriate feedback are always
develop with motor skills.
Optimizing learning through different
media. Music is used to reduce stress,
boost learning. Calm down or energize,
and as primer to energize the brain.
The same is true with art, its provide
avenues for self expression.

Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own u
nderstanding;in all your ways submit to him, and he will make yo
ur paths straight.

THANK
YOU !

PREPARED BY:
MARJORY ALBERTO DL.

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