Curriculum Night

August 11, 2014

Wilson Preparatory Academy will provide every student with a quality and relevant education that will prepare them to progress in a rapidly evolving global society. An integrated and comprehensive curriculum will be tailored to every student regardless of background, learning style, career or college pathway. Click on the link June Atkinson Introduction Our Focus: Deeper Learning Design for Student Centered Learning

1. Competency-Based Learning ! Focus on Mastery Orientation of Content

2. Personalized Learning ! Focus on customizing the learning based on the

need of the student 3. Student Owned Learning

! Focus on providing student voice and choice in the learning process

4. Anytime, Anywhere Learning ! Blended Learning and Project-Based Learning to

extended and enrich learning

1. Competency Learning: Content, Pedagogy and Engagement Wilson Preparatory Academy will create a 21st Century learning environment with will utilize Blended Learning, Project-Based Learning, Integrating Technology and develop personalized learning environment.

Create a Culture of Asynchronous Digital Learning • Clear learning objectives • Descriptive feedback with digital loops • Personalized learning for efficacy and resiliency • Collaborative Problem Solving • Crowd sourcing and social learning • Anytime and Anywhere instructional tools

Amplify Real-Time Pedagogy • Multi-media data analysis • Mind mapping • Content curation and analysis tools • Social learning tools • Instructional technology apps

Enhance the Application of Learning • Persuasive and creative writing • Use digital graphic organizers • Interview skills • Debate • Oral presentation and communication • Use of technology

demonstrations

2. Personalized Learning: Customized Learning

TenMarks Math Enhancement

Assessments with actionable results

Our assessments evaluate students' proficiency in all domains across an entire grade level or in just one standard - and the results include a recommended list of concepts for the student to work on. These recommendations are based on individual assessment scores and can include remediation and enrichment topics

Interventions to improve student outcomes

When a student is really stuck on a concept and the videos and hints aren't enough, Amplifiers come to their rescue! Carefully designed to scaffold learning in an engaging way, TenMarks' Amplifiers walk students step by step through a concept. It's like having a virtual teacher's aide at every student's side!

Data-driven insights

TenMarks provides loads of data and insights to inform instructional decisions. For every assignment, teachers receive in-depth error analysis that shows the most commonly made mistakes. Usage, performance and standards-based reports provide insight into student activity.

Embedded Support-Helping every student with every problem.

When students work on TenMarks, they have access to hints and video lessons on EVERY problem, so if they can't recall something, or didn't quite get the topic when it was covered in class, they can quickly review the content, and move forward.

HeadSprout Individualized, Adaptive Kids Reading Program

• Differentiated online instruction for K-5 students leverages a scaffolded delivery method to suit the learning needs and pace of every child

• Up to seven levels of error correction ensures true early reading and reading comprehension

• Smart instructional sequencing places kids at the appropriate point within the program

• Online delivery allows students to access Headsprout anywhere, at anytime

• For Science and Social Studies we will be implementing Project Based Learning. The Goal is to teach our students to learn how to think.

3. Student-Owned Learning- Principles of Character Education integrated in curriculum:

• The school community promotes core ethical and performance values as the foundation of good character.

• The school defines “character” comprehensively to include thinking, feeling, and doing.

• The school uses a comprehensive, intentional, and proactive approach to character development.

• The school creates a caring community.

• The school provides students with opportunities for moral action.

• The school offers a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners, develops their character, and helps them to succeed.

• The school fosters students’ self-motivation.

• The school staff is an ethical learning community that shares responsibility for character education and adheres to the same core values that guide the students.

• The school fosters shared leadership and long-range support of the character education initiative.

• The school engages families and community members as partners in the character-building effort.

• The school regularly assesses its culture and climate, the functioning of its staff as character educators, and the extent to which its students manifest good character.

4. Anytime, Anywhere Learning: Our blended learning approach will enhance: Reading Literature

! Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

! Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text.

! Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).

Reading Informational Text ! Describe the relationship between a series of historical events,

scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

! Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).

Writing ! Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or

events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

! Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

Speaking and Listening ! Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read

aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

! Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.

Language ! Choose words and phrases for effect. ! Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational,

general Academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships.

Project-Based Learning Framework