Curriculum Design - Defining Curriculum

What are our students supposed to know

Standards, Expectations, TEKS, Competencies

How are we going to know if our students have learned the materials?

Formative assessments, Summative Assessments, Traditional Assessments, Authentic Assessments

How are we going to do if they have not learned it?

Interventions: Systematic/Individualized, Accommodations (supports), Re-Teach with new methods : Reflect first on self, Progress Monitoring

What are we going to do for students who have learned it?

Extensions, Independent research, Field Trips/ Other experiences

Curricular Mapping

A technique for gathering data on what is being taught through the school year. Teachers keep a written record of their classroom curricular activities.

Daily Planning

Most specific piece of lesson planning. This defines exactly what the students will be learning and doing each day, created from weekly plan

Weekly Planning

Outline of planning the teacher organizes and implements that covers the learning for a specific week. This is created from the unit plan and is simply smaller pieces of that plan. It’s dependent on the students understanding from the week before.

Unit Planning

This ties goals/objectives, content, activities