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SAS Curriculum Mapping

ESL CIU # 10 ConsortiumBobbie Pfingstler, Ed.D.

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Pennsylvania Department of Education Vision for the Education for

the Education of English Language Learners

Provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of education which includes the provision of quality, culturally-responsive and equitable educational programs for ELLs and assurance of their appropriate participation in all aspects of the educational system. The Department ensures that its programs will address the needs and rights for ELLs in all its initiatives throughout the entire process of planning and implementation.

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Pennsylvania Department of Education Vision for the Education for

the Education of English Language Learners

The Department is committed to using its Standards Aligned System to ensure that English language learners receive core curriculum instruction and achieve high levels of academic success.

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• Are aligned with college and work expectations• Are clear, understandable, and consistent• Include rigorous content and application of

knowledge through high-order skills• Build upon strengths and lessons of current state

standards• Are informed by other top-performing countries,

so that all students are prepared tosucceed in our global economy and society

• Are evidence-based

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Outcomes

• Identify the characteristics of ELP Standards-based instruction

• Develop and instrument through which to share “what content teachers need toknow to effectively teach English language learners.”

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Guiding Beliefs

• All students are part of the general education system.

• There is a shared responsibility for student achievement across the entire school community.

• The best way to address student learning is to be proactive.

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PA Academic Standards and PA ELP Standards

PA Academic Standards PA ELP Standards

Are for all students Are for ELLs

Are part of the Curriculum Framework

Are part of the Curriculum Framework for ELLs

Guide content instruction Guide district ESL and content curriculum and instruction

Comprise content specific objectives

Include both content and language objectives

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Resources

Create a New Account:

Creating a SAS Account.pdfCurriculum Mapping Tool:

http://www.pdesas.org/sascmHelp Desk:

http://www.pdesas.org/helpdesk

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Where Are You?

Sample Readiness Checklist

• http://websites.pdesas.org/jmratka/2010/8/21/70294/file.aspx

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What is Curriculum?

Agree or Disagree?Agree

Disagree Statement

1. Determined by all teachers working in collaborative grade level and content area teams.

2. A scope and sequence chart from a publisher or chapter headings from a textbook.

3. Based only on state standards.

4. Written from the point of view of what the teacher will do.

5. Aligned between and across grade levels and content areas within increasing cognitive difficulty.

6. Focused on one classroom or one grade level.

7. Based on content, skills, assessments, resources, and other information teachers find useful in planning and teaching.

8. A planning and teaching tool that effects instruction and routinely changes to correspond to the needs and strengths of the learners.

9. Written from the point of view of what the student needs to know and be able to do.

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Curriculum refers to the specific blueprint for learning and is derived from content and performance standards.

- Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

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The curriculum should focus on powerful knowledge.

All students should experience a thinking curriculum.

The best results come from having an aligned curriculum.

- Peter Hill

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What components or items should we consider when building or developing curriculum?

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Definition Example

Unit

Sub-unit

Essential Questions

Mapping Elements

Concepts

Competencies

Standards

Materials and Resources

Assessment

Vocabulary

Common Core

Duration

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What is curriculum mapping?

Heidi Hayes Jacobshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8etEUVzo2GE&feature=related

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Curriculum Mapping is a collaborative, dynamic process for systematically aligning local content with the essential elements of Pennsylvania’s Standards Aligned System.

Curriculum Mapping:– Optimizes individual student achievement.– Organizes course content into an easily accessed

online tool that informs teaching and learning.– Serves as a means to communicate curriculum to

stakeholders.

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A Core Map is a document that reflects the curriculum that all teachers are expected to address during a course of study.

A Core Map is a replacement for a curriculum guide. Each teacher in the course receives the Core Map.

Although teachers may add to the Core Map, they may not edit or remove parts of the Core.

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Lesson planning is done by teachers, but it is not a part of the Core Map. The lessons can be stored in the Teacher Tools on SAS or in their own electronic files.

The Core Maps allow continual refinement of curriculum based on student achievement data, changing demographics, changing state standards, etc.

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• Core Maps reflect the consistency and flexibility an individual district or school determines is needed within and across courses of study.

• Each discipline presents different considerations when coming to consensus on what needs to be consistent across grade level classrooms and what should be flexible.

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Voluntary Model Curriculum Map

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Phases of Curriculum

Mapping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLWl7nYRY0w&feature=related

Heidi says there are four phases:

1.Laying the Foundation

2.Launching the Mapping Tool

3.Sustaining and Integrating the Mapping Tool

4.Mapping into the Future

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Laying the Foundation

Phase 1: Laying the Foundation• http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=T_YPJei1Hc4&feature=related

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Day 1 Closure

Identify the curriculum mapping “must haves” as your consortium begins its work.

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Let’s Spend Some Time Reviewing the SAS Portal.

http://www.pdesas.org/

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English Language Proficiency Standards

• The English Language Proficiency Standards are at the following websites:

• www.pdesas.org• www.educaion.state.pa.us• The ELL overlay is at the following

website: http://www.pdesas.org/module/sas/curriculumframework/elloverlay.aspx

• Can Do Descriptors: www.wida.us

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Launching the Process

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWcCJVoQHYU&feature=related

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Phase 2: Launching the Process

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Checklist for Developing

Effective Units

Launching the Curriculum Toolbox

• Language Arts: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening

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