Macro-Curriculum vs. Micro-Curriculum

 

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Unit: Curriculum

Theme: The Safe Creative Mind


Introduction

 In education, a curriculum is broadly defined as the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational process. The term often refers specifically to a planned sequence of instruction, or to a view of the student's experiences in terms of the educator's or school's instructional goals.


II

Learning Objectives

 

  • Understand the holistic approach 
  • Explain the main aspects of a holistic curriculum
  • Gain awareness of the benefits the holistic curriculum provides
  • Experience the planning of a holistic curriculum


III

Main Lesson


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Macro-Curriculum

In curriculum design, macro means understanding where you want to end up before you begin.

 

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Micro-Curriculum

The micro-curriculum relates to the specific content within topics or sub-topics, set out as specific knowledge, skills and experiences.


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Mind Up for Life

https://mindup.org


Go to Mind Up for Schools > Mind Up for Educators and Schools

Program Details: 

  • Designed with every classroom in mind

  • Positive School-wide culture and climate

  • Benefit for Teachers: An Optimistic Classroom


IV

A Note to Remember

 

While the micro focuses on the tiny details of a topic, the macro is the big picture, and too often, we can lose sight of it. In curriculum design, macro means understanding where you want to end up before you begin.


V

Case Study

Goldie Hawn

Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, producer, and singer. She rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1970), before going on to receive the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Cactus Flower (1969). Hawn maintained bankable star status for more than three decades.


Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born in Washington DC, November 21, 1945) is an American actress, producer, and singer. She rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1970), before going on to receive the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Cactus Flower (1969).

 

Hawn was raised Jewish. She began taking ballet and tap dance lessons at the age of three and danced in the corps de ballet of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo production of The Nutcracker in 1955. She made her stage debut in 1964, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet.

 

By 1964, she ran and taught in a ballet school, having dropped out of American University where she was majoring in drama. In 1964, Hawn made her professional dancing debut in a production of Can-Can at the Texas Pavilion of the New York World's Fair. She began working as a professional dancer a year later and appeared as a go-go dancer in New York City and at the Peppermint Box in New Jersey.


 


(51:23 - 1:08)

Mind Up for Life


 

VI
 
Discussion Questions  
 
1. What would be a holistic approach to a school program?
 
2. Describe the optimistic classroom 

 
 
VII


Activity



Get in groups and (based on your previous design) plan a holistic curriculum that includes the elements listed bellow to achieve happiness for children. Integrate these elements with the curriculum you designed already during our previous class.

1. Brain Break

2. Teaching children how to learn about their brain and how to use it.

a) Focus
b) Happiness
c) Kindness
d) Gratitude journaling

3. Teach children brain fitness:
a) Resilience
b) Self-Awareness
c) Critical Thinking

4. Teach Children how to manage their own brain/reality.


5. Work with parents.

6. Include evidence based research/Positive Psychology.
 
Conclusion
 
Brain-breaks and gratitude-journaling are two, very tangible (measurable), elements that can be added to the general curriculum.

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Journaling

 

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Glossary

macro-curriculum: The overall understanding of where you want to end up before you begin designing the curriculum.

micro-curriculum: the specific content within topics or sub-topics, set out as specific knowledge, skills and experiences.

brain breaks: In the classroom, brain breaks are quick, structured breaks using physical movement, mindfulness exercises, or sensory activities.

gratitude journals: journals where students reflect on their days and remember the good parts. Students who have tried out this exercise tend to express their gratitude for a variety of things, including friends and family, their teachers and school, and basic needs like food and clothing.

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Sources

Understanding Macro in Curriculum Design. https://blog.eduplanet21.com/2018/09/25/understanding-macro-curriculum-design

Understanding Micro in Curriculum. Design.https://blog.eduplanet21.com/2018/09/25/understanding-macro-curriculum-design 

 Gratitude Journals for Students. https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/gratitude_journal_for_students

 

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Student's Work

 

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Implementing Brain Breaks & Gratitude Journaling: 

1. Since our program is after school, we are implementing a brain break after school, but before our dance class begins. Our students will have been in school all day, and are most likely exhausted. Thus, before starting class we will allow our students 10 minutes to reflect on their day and journal how they are feeling. By allowing our students to journal before our dance program begins, we will encourage them to express how they felt during the day through their dancing, in hopes of eliminating feelings of anxiety, stress, and depression. 

2. Our second brain break will be after the lecture portion of our program. Before teaching the students how to dance, we will lecture our students on the style of dance they will be learning and practicing that day. Since lectures can be overwhelming, we will allow our students to take a 5 minute brain break to process what they were taught before executing the dance.

3. Our final brain break will be at the end of class when we guide our students through a 5 minute meditation and stretching class.

Group's Portfolio

 https://afterschoolelementarydanceprogram.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-safe-creative-mind.html

 

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 Gema, Laralyn, Janice, Krystelle


 

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 Dibe, Caro, Nonii, Okera, Calliegh

 https://dconc.blogspot.com/2023/01/130.html

 

 

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