Navigating Curriculum Development: A Journey Towards Alignment and Integration
Explore the transformation of curriculum management from manual to software-based systems, highlighting efforts from curriculum loading to vertical alignment with state standards. Learn about essential questions, biblical integration, and future checkpoints in this educational journey.
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CURRICULUM TRAK 2015-17
WHAT WEVE TACKLED 2015 Fall-2016 Spring The Big Push We took all existing hardcopy curriculum and loaded it into our new software system. The results were that we were prepared for the Peer Review Team during our 5 year mark accreditation year. 2016 Fall 2017 Spring Progression We have attached benchmarks for each curriculum map to show alignment with important state standards. We now have the capability to assess vertical alignment of the curriculum in each subject.
WHERE WERE HEADED May 2017 - checkpoint: instructional objectives, instructional methods, and benchmarks May 22, 2017 essential questions August 2017 biblical integration October 2017 assessments November 2017 checkpoint; resources January 2018 evaluating course descriptions and other attachments February 2018 vertical alignment meeting March 2018 spruce up wording for methods and objectives May 2018 checkpoint: completed curriculum
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS The first essential question you re asking is Why bother? What an excellent example because an essential question should accomplish the following: Generate thought Encompass a holistic view of the subject matter Create engagement and reveal what we re really dying to know
THE TARGET Essential questions should meet this criteria: They are open-ended. If you can answer yes or no, it won t work. Explanation is necessary. They may be opinionated. Students can answer the same question with different responses. 1-4 questions per unit works.
EXAMPLES IN CT These maps have wonderful examples of essential questions: 5thgrade science 4thgrade social studies K language arts Spanish 1A JH English Math 2 course JH Life Science 1&2 Library and Media
BIBLICAL INTEGRATION Choose a unit that needs biblical integration. Click the pencil next to the unit name. Find the box marked biblical integration and click on the Bible icon above this box titled faith-learning.
BIBLICAL INTEGRATION Select a program for your course (math, science, foreign language, etc.) Now choose a strand. Click appropriate boxes, and then click SAVE. You may add from different strands until you have 1-5 components for each unit.
EXAMPLES IN CT These maps have great examples of biblical integration: JH life science Geometry Speech Music 6th Early childhood art 2ndscience Math 6th
RESOURCES AND ASSESSMENTS Open a curriculum map Go to any unit missing resources and click on the pencil beside the unit name And all resources that you use for that unit in the appropriate box Click save Open a curriculum map Go to any unit missing assessments and click on the pencil beside that unit name Add any assessment that you use for that unit such as HW, quizzes, test, project, etc. Click save HINT: Copy and paste may be your friend!
EXAMPLES IN CT These maps have completed units for resources and assessments: Marriage and family 5thgrade science Algebra I Spanish I 3rdgrade language arts JH art
FEBRUARY 2018 VERTICAL ALIGNMENT We will meet in departments to discuss vertical alignment (math and English). Our emphasis is specifically on the transition from upper elementary to junior high grades. We will evaluate content of the curriculum, expectations, and homework load at these levels. We will assess the standards and missing benchmarks for these grades.
