CANCLED: A Curriculum Road Map for Students: Unit Organizer
Effective Schools Framework Aligned Workshop

Aligned with the Effective Schools Framework Lever 5 EA 5.1 Objective-driven daily lesson plans with formative assessments

Whether a class is being taught for the first time or the fiftieth, a “road map” always helps the instructor and the students stay on track and understand where they’ve been and where they are going. During this course, particpants will create course and unit curriulum maps with detailed graphic organizers to involve students in their content learning over the year and in each unit of study. The Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) course and unit organizers will be created during the curriculum planning process and then used with students during instruction to build active student engagement and improved learning of the Student Expectations in the TEKS. 

You will learn a structured process for identifying the priority TEKS as part of curricular planning for a scope and sequence of student learning. You will focus on:

  • aligning instruction with the priority TEKS and idenitfying critical knowledge and skills for mastery of the Student Expectations
  • ensuring greater teacher clarity of expectations with essential questions, concepts, and rigorous assessments
  • building student ownership of their learning to develop self confident learners through explicit tracking tools for monitoring their learning progress.

According to Marzano, a guaranteed workable curriculum may be the single largest factor that determines how many students in a school will learn critical content. School leaders and teachers need to be able to identify essential content standards for developing intellectual skills including higher order thinking. In this interactive session, participants will analyze the TEKS to identify power Standards all students must learn. You will create graphic organizers known as the Strategic Instruction Model Course and Unit Organizers during the planning process as a course or class curriculum road map for use with students.

 

In the first workshop in the series, "Identifying & Unpacking the Priority TEKS," particpants will use a structured process to identify the priority TEKS and then how to unpack the TEKS  to name the knowledge and skills students need to master the TEKS. Then you will plan your course content with a consistent protocol and process to design an organizer to use with students. (SU2143643)

In the second workshop, "A Curriculum Road Map for Students: Unit Organizer," you'll break down the content organizer and its units of study to create an interactive curriculum map for you to use with students during daily lessons in a unit. Both workshops will determine formative and summative assessments needed to monitor student learning. (SU2143644)

 

The August workshops will be virtual through Zoom with a linked online Canvas course for additional resources and an opportunity to receive feedback.

A Curriculum Road Map with the Unit Organzier:

Without a good road map, a car trip can be a wild adventure into the great unknown. While a wild adventure may be interesting, you’re likely to take a few wrong turns and maybe even miss your destination! Don’t let this happen to the students in your class. Give them the road map they need with the Unit Organizer Routine. At the heart of this routine is a graphic organizer called a Unit Organizer—a road map, if you will — depicting how a particular unit in a course is structured. It shows the different components of the unit that is about to be taught and outlines a schedule of activities for the unit. In addition, it gives students essential unit questions based upon critical content and assessments to guide their learning. To make the journey more meaningful, students help the teacher construct this map at the beginning of a unit, and add to it as they progress through the unit. As a result, they have a clear idea of what they are learning and how that information relates to other units in the course.

Being clear with students about what they're learning has the potential of almost doubling their academic growth in a year according to John Hattie's meta-analyses of research which indicated teacher clarity had an effect size of 0.72. 


Teachers & Leaders
Mary Black
Curriculum, Effective Schools Framework - 5.1, Administration/Leadership, Professional Learning Communities, Differentiation, Instructional Strategies
1 - Planning, T-TESS 2 - Instruction, T-TESS 1.1 - Planning: Standards and Alignment, T-TESS 1.2 - Planning: Data and Assessment, T-TESS 2.2 - Instruction: Content Knowledge and Expertise, T-TESS 2.4 - Instruction: Differentiation 1 - Instructional Leadership, T-PESS 1.1A - Ensures curricula aligned with state standards, T-PESS 1.1D - Ensures growth of individual students
Online Course, Facilitated

$110.00
CPE Credits: 6.00  
Registration Closes: 5/31/2021
Fri. 8/6/2021 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
Starts: 8/5/2021
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