unpacking standards

What’s Next?Aligned Content Curriculum

=Clear Connections for Students

Maximizing our efforts through alignment

Grove City Christian School, 2011

What is Curriculum?A Curriculum Is : A Curriculum Is Not:The unpacking and interpreting of standards into a set of skills to be learned.

A well conceived hierarchy of skills based on students’ cognitive, language, and social emotional development

Developed by all teachers working in collaborative grade level and content area teams

A planning and teaching tool that affects instruction and is adapted and differentiated to correspond to need and strengths of learners

A document that includes content, skills, assessment, standards, and other information needed to plan and teach

A copy of standards or indicators

A scope and sequence chart from a publisher or chapter heading from a text book

Developed by a few people in the school or a publishing company

A document that sits on a shelf and isn’t used or never changes

Restating standards


A Curriculum Is : A Curriculum Is Not:A tool that describes what a student needs to know and be able to do

Aligned with standards and other exemplary written curriculums from other entities across and within grade levels and content areas increasing in cognitive difficulty at each level

A lesson plan or description of what a teacher will do

Individually unique to each teacher developing his or her own interpretation of the standards without agreement across grade levels

Bredekamp,S & Rosegrant, T.


What is Curriculum What is Curriculum Mapping?Mapping?

Curriculum Mapping is the documentation and discussion of what we teach.

It is a collaborative process that helps us understand teaching and learning throughout the Elementary, Intermediate, Middle School and High School.Grove City Christian School,

2011

Why Curriculum Mapping?Why Curriculum Mapping?

It benefits It benefits ALLALL students.students. Mapping is a Mapping is a COMMUNICATIONCOMMUNICATION tool.tool. Mapping is a Mapping is a PLANNINGPLANNING tool, it tool, it

keeps us keeps us FOCUSEDFOCUSED and targets and targets necessary information.necessary information.

PromotesPromotes PROFESSIONALISMPROFESSIONALISM and and teaching creativity.teaching creativity.


Mapping is not burdensome, in fact it Mapping is not burdensome, in fact it replaces repeat teachings.replaces repeat teachings.

Mapping allows us to focus on fewer Mapping allows us to focus on fewer goals, and therefore, teach concepts in goals, and therefore, teach concepts in depth.depth.

Mapping will eliminate wasted review and Mapping will eliminate wasted review and expand teaching time.expand teaching time.

It vertically shows curriculum steps.It vertically shows curriculum steps.

BenefitsBenefits


What Happens With What Happens With Curriculum Mapping?Curriculum Mapping?

Departments can investigate the Departments can investigate the map to identify gaps in the vertical map to identify gaps in the vertical and horizontal alignment of courses.and horizontal alignment of courses.

Assess what students mastered in Assess what students mastered in the preceding grade and focus on the preceding grade and focus on building skills and knowledge. building skills and knowledge.

Horizontal alignment, assures that Horizontal alignment, assures that all teachers follow a similar timeline.all teachers follow a similar timeline.


Curriculum MappingCurriculum MappingAttempts to:Attempts to:

Create a Create a ““snapshotsnapshot”” of the of the educational activities of educational activities of every classroom within every classroom within the school.the school.

Capture the content skills Capture the content skills and assessments taught and assessments taught by every teacher in the by every teacher in the school.school.

Organize this Organize this information into an information into an easily accessed visual easily accessed visual that presents a timeline that presents a timeline of instruction by of instruction by teacher and course.teacher and course.


What’s Next?What’s Next?Unpack CCSS in

K-12 ELA 5-12 Content

5-12 MathBeginning with the standards identified in the

right and middle columns on our last work day. We will begin to unpack the standards we identify

as top priority.


Ensuring that teachers clearly understand the cognitive tasks implicit in the standard and determining what constitutes mastery of the standard.

It is also the precursor for designing lessons:• Prerequisite skills,• Vocabulary,• Enrichment and intervention,• Assessment.

What Does “Unpacking” Mean?


The goal of unpacking standards is not to do this as an isolated activity, nor is it to create a document for every standard in the framework. It is not a one-time event. The goal is for teachers to have regular opportunities to discuss collaboratively, the meaning of standards, the task analysis required to teach them, and how learners will be supported in instruction. This is an on-going learning activity that is part of continuous improvement in our instructional program.


Standard What Student needs to know(nouns)

What student needs to be able to do(verbs)

Possible Assessment Ideas

Possible Activity Ideas

R.L.5 Explain Major differences btw poems, drama, and prose and refer to structural elements of poems(verse, rhythm, meter)and drama (set, characters, dialogue, stage directions) when writing and speaking about text

PoemsDramaProseStructural elementsText

ExplainReferWritingSpeaking

Explain the difference between two Colonial time poems Compare and contrast poems using identifying terms Verse, rhythm, meter

Students analyze student written plays referring to set, characters, dialogue, and stage directions.

Students write short plays to explain why the American colonists united to fight for independence from Great Britain and form a new nation

Students study poems and prose from colonial times

Students write own poetry

Grade 4ODE Social Studies 4. The 13 colonies came together around a common cause of liberty and justice, uniting to fight for independence during the American Revolution and to form a new nation.





W.7 Participate in a shared research and writing project

W.8 With guidance and support from adults recall information from provided sources to answer a question.

Project

InformationSourcesQuestion

ParticipateResearch

RecallAnswer

Student is active participant in collecting and analyzing data

Student Journal shows clear evidence of understanding through drawings and or writing

Oral conferences and discussions with student indicate evidence of learning and recalling of information

Use the scientific method to answer question: I wonder what happens to shadows throughout the day

Kindergarten Concepts Science Changes in the position of the sun in the sky can be measured and recorded at different times during the school day.





R.L.9 Analyze relationship between secondary and primary sources on the same topic

Relationship Secondary SourcePrimary Source Topic

Analyze How did using primary and secondary sources help you learn more bout Ella Clanton? Share how when used together the reader can gain a deeper understanding about the topic.

Analyze the diary of Ella Clanton (1848-1865)From year to year and through civil war and slavery.

Analyze encyclopedia information on Ella Clanton

Analyze the relationship between these two sources and how they can work together to be beneficial to the reader.

You Tube video primary and secondary sources of civil warODE History 8.1. Primary and secondary

sources are used to examine events from multiple perspectives and to present and defend a position.





7.G Draw Construct and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationships between them.

Geometrical figures Relationships

DrawConstructDescribe

After constructing at least two geometric figures digitally and by hand, describe in detail the relationship between two figures.

Use Illuminations drawing tool to draw, construct and describe geometric shapes

Use compass, and straight edges to construct geometric shapes

Scale, dimension, etc.

Rigor is the goal of helping students develop the capacity to understand content that is complex, ambiguous, provocative, and personally or emotionally challenging.


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