Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Focus! Charting the Course for School Year 2013-2014

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What will be your focus during school year 2013-2014?

What will you choose with regard to student learning, collegial collaboration, system-wide efforts, and professional learning?

Already, two requests have come my way--tempting endeavor, but not related to my main focus for the year. I declined.

I really want 2013-2014 to be a year centered on classroom efforts and learning design--I want to effect a positive, productive, engaging program for all children. That means I had to make the time to outline the curriculum map with care so that I know exactly which units I need to focus on in order to embed standards, add meaningful learning experiences, and include efficient, student-centered assessments and measurements.

Below, I've added our yearly map. Grade-level colleagues, coaches, and leaders worked together on the maps in the spring. Now it's time to add the details, plan the units, and refine objectives.

To do good work, we must focus on a few essential elements, and to protect yourself from saying "yes" to too many extraneous efforts, it's a good idea to chart the course sooner than later.


Curriculum Map: 2013-2014
Subject /
Month
Reading
Writing
Math
PBL/Special Events
September
Establish RW
  • structure and routine
  • Review all Comp. Strategies
  • Review Story Elements
  • Reading Response Intro
  • Establish WW structure and routines
  • Create Writers’ Books: online and off.
  • Opinion: Class Community
  • Measurement
  • Line Plots
  • Add/Subtract
  • Place Value
  • Estimation
  • “I AM” Poems -
  • Collaborative Class Map: Google Maps
  • US Tour Starts
  • Landforms trip
October
Review Strategies:
  • Schema
  • Monitor for Meaning
  • Summarizing
  • Sensory Imagining
Reading Response
  • Opinion/Essay
  • Factors, Multiples
  • Multiplication Facts
Culture Project
  • Writing paragraphs about culture.
  • Creating culture posters
  • Culture Museum.
November
Strategies:
  • Asking Questions
  • Determining Importance
Reading Response
Genre: Informational Text
  • Opinion/Essay
  • Area/Perimeter
  • Multiplication w/large numbers
Culture Project (cont.)
  • NA Culture Trip
  • Promised Lands Immigration Present.
December
Strategies:
  • Inferring
Reading Response
Genre: Poetry
  • Poetry Writing



  • Patterns/Algebra
  • Long Division
  • Gifts of Poetry
  • “Self Portrait Poetry Anthology”?”
January
Strategies:
  • Inferring
Reading Response
Genre: Realistic Fiction
  • Focus on Character
  • Personal Narrative
  • Fractions/Decimals
  • Computation Review
  • Problem Solving
  • Digital Story

February
Strategies:
  • Determining Importance


MCAS Prep
  • Examples across genre
  • Reading Response
  • Fictional Narrative
  • MCAS Prep for Writing
  • genre review each week
  • independent test trial

  • Fractions/Decimals
  • Computation Review
  • Problem Solving
  • Digital Story

March
Reading Strategy:
  • Synthesizing
  • Determining Importance
  • Informational Text
  • Project/Research: ES
  • Drama/script as part of study/ presentation

  • Fractions/Decimals
  • Computation Review
  • Problem Solving
  • Geometry
  • Open Response Problem Solving
  • Computation Review


  • Biomes
  • Animal Adaptation
  • Animal Adaptation Presentation
April
Reading Strategy:
  • Synthesizing
  • Determining Importance

  • Geometry
  • Open Response Problem Solving
  • Computation Review
  • MCAS Prep
  • ES Research

May
Reading Strategy:
  • Synthesizing
  • Determining Importance

Explain it:
  • writing matched w/math, science study
  • Open Response Problem Solving
  • Computation Review
  • MCAS Prep
  • STEAM
  • zoo trip
  • Multimedia ES presentations
  • Plate Tectonics with Dr. Sheffels (6 lessons)
June
Genre Study:
  • review  genre through summer reading emphases.
Writing Across Genre
  • Summer journal start w/genre writing -online or off.
  • STEAM
  • Continued Computation and Problem Solving Review
  • Wolf Hollow
  • STEAM Share


Details:
Math Scope and Sequence 

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