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Big ideas:

Yasodai Selvakumaran Rooty Hill High School. Big ideas:. Content/Concept- intertwine them together! . TeachMeet History- National Curriculum May 1 2013 State Library A big ideas approach from a beginning teacher. What is a ‘big idea’?.

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Big ideas:

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  1. Yasodai Selvakumaran Rooty Hill High School Big ideas: Content/Concept- intertwine them together! TeachMeet History- National Curriculum May 1 2013 State Library A big ideas approach from a beginning teacher

  2. What is a ‘big idea’? “an understanding that is transferable and has enduring value beyond a specific topic.” • (Understanding by Design – Wiggins & McTighe)

  3. An example from the same ‘big idea’ tweaked across 3 subject programs:( Year 10 History, Year 11 Aboriginal Studies, Year 11 Society and Culture)

  4. Similar themes between the current syllabus and the new 7-10 • Year 7: The Ancient Worlds • Year 8: The Ancient World to the Modern World Contact and Colonisation and Medieval History • Year 9: The Making of the Modern World: Australia to 1914, Australia in World War 1 and Australia in World War 2 • Year 10: The Modern World and Australia: Australia in the Vietnam War Era, Changing Rights and Freedoms, Popular Culture, The role of the United Nations

  5. BIG IDEAS take us from the past to the present: • Democracy • Class struggle Civilisation • Ideals Diversity Commerce Citizenship • Inequality Justice Multiculturalism Inclusive ColonisationParadigm Shifts Power Human Rights Dispossession Industrialisation And across transnational experiences for the interconnected world we live in today

  6. Capabilities Content Concepts Cross Curriculum Priority Areas BIG IDEAS : can catch the various demands of the new curriculum and shelter the challenge of implementation for successful learning Existing expertise

  7. Some Resources? I would love to keep in touch and continue the conversation • -Textbooks: Oxford Big Ideas Text books: available now in Australia written under the Big Ideas framework • Reference: ‪Teaching History With Big Ideas‬: (2010) ‪Cases of Ambitious Teachers‬ ‪S. G. Grant‬, ‪Jill M. Gradwell‬ • Websites: • The Big History Project:http://www.bighistoryproject.com/Home- • Lessons with captioned history video resources http://www.capthat.com.au/resources/history My Twitter handle is : @yasodaiselva Thank you 

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