BB:Who decides if our standards and benchmarks are what we really want to be teaching? Has that been discussed or does it need to be discussed?
Lower and Upper E.S. are to discuss which Units are covered currently and are they meeting the ‘skills’ mentioned in the Pre-K to 5 google docs chart.
Come to a common agreement on 3 units to be covered over the year.
Common assessments for the units and digital literacy skills.
(Information and tech skills)
Have a curriculum map from Pre-K to 5th Grade.
BB:Does SS curriculum meet the needs of our global student population? Are we helping student better understand their own culture and the culture that they are living in and how they have impact on the global world? Does our SS curriculum help students have a sense of the past so that they* canthemselves can be empowered empl em
Supplemental materials for teaching mapping skills and communities at appropriate reading levels.
More access to Digital Resources for Research and Technology integration projects. (Have a shared outline of which units are using digital resources throughout the year so there is less overlapping with facilities.)
BB:If we change an y standards and benchmarks to different grade levels, the library will need to know so that support material can be purchased before implementation.
BB: Libraries can provide current event resources...help create video, audio, and print materials to be used at different grade levels.
Pudong MS
Who is responsible for what?
What are the dates for the meetings?
What is to be discussed at the meeting?
What resources are required for success?
Puxi SS Teachers/Pudong Humanities Teachers
March 11 SSTF
Theme v. Chronology
Scaffolding
Chart paper
Documents created so far
MS Pudong
Look @Learning (March 31)
Review Standards and Benchmarks (do the current standards fit our purpose/theme)
SAS Standards and Benchmarks
Determined themes/units of study
Time/Look at Learning
MS Pudong
Look @Learning (April 28)
Skills, rubrics, research skills
Current rubrics, our respective curriculums
MSPudong Humanities Teachers/Puxi SS Teachers
Oct. PD Meeting
Standards and Benchmarks, skills, rubrics
Current rubrics, our respective curriculums
Pudong HS
Who is responsible for what?
What are the dates for the meetings?
What is to be discussed at the meeting?
What resources are required for success?
Semester 1 China Fay and Peter
Time release for concentrated curriculum development - at least 2 consecutive days
Semester 2 Quarter 3 Japan Jan and Doug
Quarter 4 Options Jim - Vietnam
Jan - Korea
late March 2010 - after Spring Break
Skills to be focussed on, specific content, integration and scaffolding with other parts of History 9 and other subject areas.
Jim-Vietnam: release time to develop specific curriculum.
Alicia
MS/HS vertical integration on the Pudong campus (ongoing themes, skills that can be scaffolded)
Next Steps
Pudong ESElementary Task Force
Grade level teams in ES.
BB:Who decides if our standards and benchmarks are what we really want to be teaching? Has that been discussed or does it need to be discussed?
Come to a common agreement on 3 units to be covered over the year.
Common assessments for the units and digital literacy skills.
(Information and tech skills)
Have a curriculum map from Pre-K to 5th Grade.
BB:Does SS curriculum meet the needs of our global student population? Are we helping student better understand their own culture and the culture that they are living in and how they have impact on the global world? Does our SS curriculum help students have a sense of the past so that they* canthemselves can be empowered empl em
More access to Digital Resources for Research and Technology integration projects. (Have a shared outline of which units are using digital resources throughout the year so there is less overlapping with facilities.)
BB:If we change an y standards and benchmarks to different grade levels, the library will need to know so that support material can be purchased before implementation.
BB: Libraries can provide current event resources...help create video, audio, and print materials to be used at different grade levels.
Pudong MS
Pudong HS
Jan - Korea
- Charts of scaffolding from each division
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