Pacing Guides

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Pacing Guides
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Pacing Guides

• Annual Plan
• Syllabus
• Curriculum Alignment Guide
• Annual Teaching Calander

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What do you expect to get from them?

• Pacing guides can help you with planning.
• They can ensure that you cover the entire
  curriculum.
• They provide for the maximum OTL Opportunity to
  Learn.
• They allow you to set up a time frame for sharing
  resources with your peers.

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Tell me more.

• Pacing guides improve student performance
• They provide school-to-school continuity
• Pacing guides foster greater involvement with
  support areas.
• They improve your instructional decision-making.
• They spotlight opportunities for integration.

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Pacing Guides vs Standards-Based Education

• Ensure that what students are taught is not
  determined by who their teacher is but rather by
  the standards to be taught
• Reduce the achievement gap
• Provide alignment of state and national standards
• Pacing guides support high expectations

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Materials needed to Create Pacing Guides?

• Course blueprint
• Curriculum guide
• School calendar (with testing dates)
• Blank pacing guide
• Classroom item bank

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How Should Pacing Guides be Created?

• All teachers in the school who teach the same
  course should collaborate on the development of
  the pacing guide.
• Guides should be submitted to an administrator
  (department chair or director) for review.

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Steps in Creating an Electronic Pacing Guide

• Open your course blueprint in MSWord.
• Select and copy the columns you want to include
  on your pacing guide.
• Open Excel.
• Paste what you copied from the blueprint.

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Steps in Creating an Electronic Pacing Guide,
continued.

• Label the additional columns you will be using.
• Add an Assessment Column
• Format the document anyway you like.
• You may want to add color or shading for emphasis

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Pacing Guides

• Save your blank pacing guide before you begin to
  fill in the dates. (As long as the curriculum
  stays the same, you can work from this blank
  copy.)
• Print your pacing guide to have it close at hand
  during planning time.
• Remember to collaborate with your peers.

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Good Luck!

• Happy Planning!