Elementary Curriculum Unit Project

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Elementary Curriculum Unit Project

• Purpose
• Background information Phase I Update
• - Participating school boards and the review
  process
• To provide implementation support material for
  elementary teachers in single and combined
  grade classes.
• To develop sample elementary curriculum units
  for
• Mathematics
• Science and Technology
• Social Studies, History Geography

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Elementary Curriculum Unit Project

• Components/Deliverables
• A total of 82 sample units, for single and
  combined grades, in Mathematics, Science and
  Technology, Social Studies, History and
  Geography
• Implementation support document
• All units and support documents will be
  available on CD-ROM, (MAC, Windows, PDF) on the
  OCUP.org website and in hardcopy.
• CDROM - 4 per school
• Hardcopy - 2 per board
• Presentation material, sample units and support
  document on CD-ROM

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Elementary Unit Project
Power Point Slide Presentation
Presentation component Participant handouts

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The Elementary Curriculum Unit Project
• The Curriculum Unit Planner
• Planning Elementary Curriculum Units
• Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting
• Modifications and Accommodations
• Classroom Management
• Mathematics, Grades 1 to 8
• Science and Technology, Grades 1 to 8
• Social Studies, Grades 1 to 6 History and
  Geography, Grades 7 and 8
• Appendices
• Generic Planning Tools
• Learning Continuum Charts

Link to Slides for Catholic Educators
Directory of Elementary Units
Public Catholic
PDF - PC ZIP - MAC ZIP
Directory includes easy access by discipline or
grade - straight and combined (e.g., list for all
grade 3 or 3/4 units)
Camera ready copies Math Science Technology
Social Studies History Geography
Web-site - OCUP.org
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Implementation Support Document

• Purpose
• To provide a context to reference the sample
  units
• To encourage teachers to use the many
  instructional design features of the Electronic
  Planner
• To provide public and Catholic teachers of single
  and combined grade classes with
• planning information
• learning continuum charts
• assessment, evaluation and reporting strategies
• modification and accommodation

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Implementation Support Document
Overview of Content
Assessment Evaluation Reporting

• Definition
• Strategies / Tools
• Communicating Assessment practices to parents
• Generic and Subject specific

Approaches to Planning

• Long Range in Learning Continuum
• Steps in Unit Planning (p.13) Teaching/Learning
• Curriculum Unit Planner
• Generic and Subject Specific Information

Supporting Information

• Classroom Management
• Modifications and Accommodations planning and
  assessment
• Subject specific strategies/tool for the
  combined grade teacher

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Divisional Meeting
Content
Resources
Learning Continuum
Long Range Planning
Unit Planning
Long Range Planning Sheet
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Steps in Unit Planning
1.What do you want students to learn?
3. How will you design instruction for effective
learning for all?
2. What evidence will you accept of that
learning?
There are three key questions for planning.
Ralph W. Tyler. Basic Principles of
Instructional Design. 1949
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Steps in Unit Planning
(Cont'd)
Key Questions
New Ontario Curriculum
Classroom Planning
Classroom planning reflects curriculum priorities.
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. Understanding by
Design. 1999
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Steps in Unit Planning
(Cont'd)
(Cont'd)
Link to Catholic Graduate Expectations Learning
Activities for Catholic Educators
Context
Performance Tasks and Criteria
The planning of learning experiences is a process
whereby teachers can reflect and redesign.

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Steps in Unit Planning
(Cont'd)
Designing a Unit Design Backwards
Culminating Task
Subtask 4
Subtask 3
Subtask 2
Assessment Subtask 1
The Planner helps you BACKMAP your unit from the
culminating task to sequential subtasks.
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What needs to happen to have materials ready
Local School District Planning
When will the local in-service take place?

• CDROM
• Hardcopies

Length of in-service?
Questions

• Consider regional plans
• Distribution of the deliverables through local
  board in-service

• CDROM (4 per school)
• Hardcopies (2 per school board)

To school boards
Feedback
Workshops

• individual resource support
• Licence to copy

Impact of CDROM
General Distribution

• individual resource support
• Licence to copy

• Individual resource support
• Licence to copy

Composition of local school audience
In-Services
Communication Strategy

• P / P.V.
• teacher / division