Sunday 30 October 2011

Explore roles of curriculum innovative practices using IPPUT

I choose CN003 to explore roles of curriculum innovative practices using IPPUT. CN003 is a catholic primary school, which aimed at educating students with a good moral standard and a compassion for the society.

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The topic of the innovative pedagogical practice is “Cyber Art”. The project implemented this ‘Cyber Art’ innovation in the Art lessons in the three upper primary levels as well as  in the extracurricular activities organized by the Computer Art Club. The curriculum includes 25% of the formal curriculum time allocated to Art and 2 extension activities which are drawing activities within campus and drawing trips outside campus.

The goals of this project were:
a.To develop students’ aesthetic sense and vision and to help students understand the language of art.
b.To develop students’ creativity in producing visual art work.
c. To realize the vision of extending computer art from classroom to daily life.

There were three innovations in this case:

1. In this project, there were a variety of activities, including formal teaching periods, extra curriculum activities of the Computer Art Club and the collaboration with a primary school in Beijing. In such curriculum building,
the role of teachers and students changed. They worked together as a team in preparing their lessons and the activities. They shared their workload in this project. Peer lesson observations for teachers were also involved. Besides, co-operations with parents also took place in this practice. The concept of curriculum is “learning experience” instead of “document”.

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2. ICT was used as Teachers’ presentation tool as well as students’ productivity and information search tool. In the view of student, ICT enabled students to experience the uses of different art tools, and to broader their horizons in art form and media. It made outdoor sketching more accessible, increased the students’ mobility and helped break down the classroom wall. Besides, in teachers’ point of view, ICT allows teachers to show case, share and discuss the work of different students with the whole class. 

3.The way of assessment in this project is a highlight spot. Self- assessment and peer evaluations were newly adopted in this project for both teachers and students. A web-based assessment was also included in this project. What’s more, a lot of efforts were made to collect ideas, advice and comments from various parties, such as parents, visitors to the school .

However, in this case, teachers had to carry out much tedious technical work before each lesson. Furthermore, financial support is another problem to carry out this project for a long time.

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By Cissy

4 comments:

  1. In the pedagogy, the school is adopting ICT in the Arts lessons. Students are required to use ICT tools to assist them in the production of Art works. It can enhance the students' information and communication skills.

    Through the deployment of Arts lessons, it can develop all-round development, including appreciation and artistic skills.

    Besides, the school is cooperating with another school in Beijing, so that students can learn from the others, and can evaluate their own work through appreciating the works from other schoolmates and students from other school.

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  2. Hi Cissy,
    Thank you very much for sharing the case of using IPPUT! When implementing the innovation to students, you mentioned that technical work and financial support are still under improvement. I think that maybe government can be involved to help assist the school. For example, the technical work can be done by offering more ICT based expertise and training course to improve teachers' ICT skills. Besides, the assessment part may also be improved by teachers as there is always a standard. With the standard the students' can be assessed in a more fair way. What do you think?

    post by Ricky CHAN, Kwoon Kay

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  4. Cissy, many thanks for the detailed introduction of the case and I quite agree with you that financial problem really matters for this kind of innovation practice that includes field trips.

    However, if well-supported, the outdoor activities and field trips can largely motivated students in a sense that it only provides access to practice use of the knowledge, in this case, their arts ability, but also give students a sense of real achievement and at the same time provide opportunities for cross-school, cross-city and cross-culture communication.

    Adopting the ‘Analysis Framework’ introduced in session 5, this case was successful in two ways: one is that it involved cooperation work from school and parents as well as community; another is that horizontally, it had connection between Goals, Classroom level pedagogical practices and Outcomes.

    Goals <---> Pedagogical practices <---> Outcomes
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    By Liu, Feifei

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