CURRICULUM PLANNING:

LESSON PLANS, TOOLS, &

STRATEGIES

May 4th, 2017

Welcome!

Objectives

• Participants will experience active learning first-hand

• Participants will gain experience building components of active learning into their program curriculum and sessions

• Participants will learn strategies to incorporate youth voice into program curriculum and planning

• Participants will share and workshop best practices to designing and facilitating engaging content

Agenda

Intro & Welcome –Icebreaker

Opening –Numbers Game

Goals & Objectives –Program, Session, Activity

Incorporating Youth Voice

Learning Community Best Practices

Implementation –Workshop content development

Reflection & Closing –Budding Ideas

Icebreaker –Learning

Reflection

• Think about a recent learning experience

• With an elbow partner discuss: • What feelings do you associate with this experience?

• What about this experience supported your

engagement?

• What about this experience did not support your

engagement?

Who’s using what?

– How many of you are using canned curriculum

created by someone else?

– How many of you are creating your own

curriculum?

– How many of you are using a combination of

established curriculum and content that you’re

creating?

Opening

Numbers Game

• In your groups you’ll have a

stack of numbers from 1-60.

• Your goal is to touch as

many numbers as possible in

one minute.

• Everyone participates and

the same player cannot

touch two consecutive

numbers.

• Only one person can touch a

number at a time.

The Learning Cycle

DO

REFLECT

PLAN

Central Ideas: Designing

Goals & Objectives

At the program, session, and

activity level

Designing Goals & Objectives

• What do you want youth to

accomplish?

• What do you want them to do or

learn?

• Where do you want them to be at

the end of program?

Central Ideas:

Engaging Youth Voice

The Youth Voice Ladder

Opportunities

Shared Leadership

Choice

Input

[No Voice]

Supports

Scaffolding

Increasing

challenge

Typology of Youth Participation &

Empowerment (TYPE Pyramid)

Wong, Zimmerman & Parker (2010)

Engaging youth voice is about

youth and adults sharing control

Y-AP

Opportunities for Youth Voice in

Program Planning & Implementation

• Organizing program space

• Designing curriculum

• Planning, leading and debriefing activities

• Coordinating events

• Establishing group norms and

expectations

• Managing conflict

• Recruiting and orienting new participants

Reflection: How are decisions

currently made in your setting?

Decision Adult

Control

Shared

Control

Youth

Control

Organizing program space

Curriculum/program design

Teaching/facilitation

Planning, leading, debriefing

activities

Coordinating events

Establishing group norms

Managing conflict

Application –Learning

Community Best Practices

Examples from practice

• Related to your program content, identify an area that’s

going well for you. Sample categories include:

Program agenda, lesson plan, facilitation framework

Examples of engaging project based learning

Ways that you’ve successfully incorporated youth

voice

Your choice

• Use your blank piece of paper to draw or describe this

• Attach your card and hang it on the wall

Activity: Gallery walk

• Walk the gallery

• Find a piece that speaks to you

• Stop and discuss:

• What did this piece spark for you?

• How does this relate to our learning together?

Implementation

Let’s workshop content/curriculum

development

Applying the Weikart

Framework to Curriculum

Implementation Activity:

1. Wire your name at the top of your agenda template

2. Decide whether you want to reflect on how to apply this

agenda framework to your program content on the

whole or for a specific program session

3. Write your objectives at the top and practice completing

the remainder of the agenda framework

4. Try to incorporate strategies to engage youth voice

and/or other community referenced best practices

where relevant

Implementation Activity:

Lazy Susan 1. Everyone writes their name at the top of their agenda

template

2. Pass to the person to your right

3. Read objectives –choose one area to offer feedback,

and write your ideas in 2 minutes

4. Rotate again –repeat

5. Return to original owner

Closing Reflection

Activity: Budding Ideas

What new skills or ideas from this

workshop can you integrate into your

work?

• Discuss at your table