CHALLENGE -BASED CURRICULUM
Goal: Further develop the curriculum to ensure that every student is challenged with STEAM/Innovation opportunities up to G10
To know the who, what, when, why, and how innovation and maker-centered learning are being implemented in the various divisions of FIS in an effort to amplify, share, and extend these opportunities for students across disciplines.
Priority Actions:
Review curriculum documentation and consult teachers and team leads to find what innovation is happening throughout the FIS schools and divisions.
Look at the 21-22 Audit that was developed across the whole school and determine next steps. Realigned documentation that reflects a progression of experiences within identified strands (ie CT, DT)
Determining where opportunities for Artificial Intelligence(AI) live in the curriculum. Identified opportunities documented
Organising for STEAM/Innovation engagements at every grade level that are progressional in technology skill development. Increase of offerings to students both within the curriculum and after-school activities; ie. LEGO Robotics
Measuring Success:
A fully documented account of STEAM & innovation at FIS.
Development of FIS Innovation, Technology & Learning (STEAM) Map whole-school and from which to find gaps and/or opportunities to develop.
Timeline:
on-going (a valuable resource that we need is time; there needs to be time to gather more specific information via conversations with colleagues and to conduct work for capturing what is happening across divisions, specifically in the US). Additional Resources:
Curriculum Clarification Development Team (Innovation, Technology & Learning Mapping across the grades),
Document mapping instances, through our respective schools, of STEAM, Innovation, and technology (seen above) to determine gaps, current opportunties and future possibilities
Innovation/Maker/Design - Philosophy/Framework/Common Language
Document mapping instances of computational thinking/coding across divisions
IB Cross-programme Document: Learning, Teaching and Leading with Technologies - online or PDF -references frameworks and Design Thinking/Computational Thinking/Systems Thinking