[OLPC-Philippines] Curriculum help

[Cherry Withers]

Hi Tessa!

I'm loving those emoticons you used! I didn't know you can have a "chewing
one". Hahaha. The marching band is over the top. I don't know how to top
that. However, there is the TamTam activity in Sugar you can possibly use.
:-D

*"I have a 2002 DepEd curriculum from Grs. 1-6, all subjects, which I can
share with you. But I want to check theirs if they are using  the RBEC or
Revised Basic Ed Curriculum which I think came out in 2006 or 2007. Will let
you know after the meeting on Monday."*

This is excellent as I have been trying to unearth such a document for a
long time.

*"Re the curriculum design, if I may suggest, I would like the "champion"
teachers to be part of the process. This is going to be one of the
components in the teacher training program we will conduct sometime in the
first quarter. We still have to draft the timeline factoring the delay in
the manufacturing of the 1.5 XO models."
*
Absolutely! I completely agree. We need as much of their inputs as possible.
We can channel the help we'll get for creating baseline lessons for the
Lubang teachers to reference from and jump start their own material creation
and be able to see the possibility as opposed to working with an unknown.

My other hope is that we can have some of the infrastructure and reference
materials (this can be in the form of just giving them reference/kids sites)
ready for them so they can concentrate on just creating the lessons. So
hopefully we can all start with a conversation on how to build the scaffold
of the Moodle site. So if it's the subject Science we can maybe think about
partitioning it to: Life Science, Physical Science, Earth Science, etc. or
maybe just structure it differently by week instead of by subcategory,
progress tracking, etc. I'm hoping that this will be done before actual
creation of materials and content can follow as we'll need a place to put
their content in. What do you guys think?

Such an exciting time! Looking forward to your updates! How ever I can help,
please do let me know (I need to channel my pent up enthusiasm somewhere)
:-)

Regards,
Cherry


On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Tessa Yuvienco <tessa.yuvienco at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Cherry!
>
> The Lubang Support Team will bring the curriculum on Dec 7, Monday. Am
> setting up a lunch meeting with Ray Morales and Lloyd Daulat and hoping
> Sandeep and Joel could join too. No definite venue yet because I have to
> find out where they will be coming from. I may not be able to reciprocate
> the same welcome they gave us like a marching band[?] The most I could do
> is to treat them  to lunch [?].
>
> I have a 2002 DepEd curriculum from Grs. 1-6, all subjects, which I can
> share with you. But I want to check theirs if they are using  the RBEC or
> Revised Basic Ed Curriculum which I think came out in 2006 or 2007. Will let
> you know after the meeting on Monday.
>
> Re the curriculum design, if I may suggest, I would like the "champion"
> teachers to be part of the process. This is going to be one of the
> components in the teacher training program we will conduct sometime in the
> first quarter. We still have to draft the timeline factoring the delay in
> the manufacturing of the 1.5 XO models.
>
> Will give you updates soon.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Cherry Withers <cwithers at ekindling.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I spoke to a teacher that's also a member of the Squeakland education
>> team. Her name's Christine M. She's going to the Virgin Islands in late May
>> with 15 of her high school students from an all girls private school. The
>> girls are going to develop materials for 4th graders using Etoys. I
>> mentioned that it might be the grade that we will be working with and she
>> said to send them ideas for her girls to work on as they are very eager to
>> help. Her students are doing research now and learning Etoys independently.
>> By January they will put their ideas on ebooks and lesson plans so by May
>> they can just teach for a week in VI. I told her that we'll work on
>> curriculum design first then we'll start from there.
>>
>> Regards,
>> ---Cherry
>> P.S. I do hope that we get a more detailed curriculum as a baseline than
>> the Department of Education one that I was able to download off of their
>> website. That one was only 4 pages long and it looks like a scanned
>> photocopy of a curriculum that's been used since the 1980s. It is not very
>> detailed and the 4 pages covered the entire public school curriculum from
>> 1st-6th grade. Crossing my fingers that we'll get a more details from the
>> Lubang teachers.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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