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Instruction and Curriculum

Understanding by Design

  • ​Starting with the end goal in mind.

  • Long term curriculum planning using RubiconAtlas.

  • Essential questions that are intriguing and applicable to students' lives.

  • Enduring understandings and essential knowledge and skills that are applicable to the students' future. 

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Inquiry-based Projects

  • Promotes student centered learning

  • Fosters independent learners

  • Increases student engagement

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Project-based Learning

  • Student centered and engaging.

  • Tying standards for a unit into summative projects.

  • Scaffolding, or "chunking" projects to ensure the WHOLE class is on task.

  • Referring back to summative projects throughout the unit.

ESL Strategies

SIOP

  • Academic Vocabulary

  • Language Objectives

  • Visual Vocabulary

  • Ask open referential questions using vocabulary embedded in them

  • Speaking slowly and clearly

  • Language focused lessons

  • Posting word walls, essential questions, language objectives, and academic objectives.

  • Foldables

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Standards-based Assessments

  • Assessing students using specific stadards and rubrics.

  • Allows students to know what their specific strengths and weaknesses are for the curriculum.

  • Allows for standard-targeted improvements by informing teachers and students weak areas. 

 

Delivery of Instruction:

  • Activate the students' prior knowledge and hook their interest

  • Show different methods to solve the same problem

  • Have students actively think about, discuss, and use the ideas and skills being taught (think, pair, share with their shoulder partner or group)

  • Differentiate instruction to accommodate most students’ learning needs.

Video of students doing stations work

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