G O R D O N P O W E L L & B R O O K E D O U G L A S

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Redesigned Curriculum

Since We Last Met

Update on8/9 curriculum changes and timelines

Update on competencies

Update on 10-12 changes

How is your curriculuar area changing?

Discuss:

What is different for within your subject area for grade 8 & grade 9?

What is the same?

What are some opportunities?

What are some challenges?

What are your questions?

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Make sure you have something for each category

Similarities and Differences Across Subjects

What do we notice?

How to move forward?

Competencies

Communication recap

Continuum pre-k to adult, context dependent

Primary use at this point is goal setting

Core Competencies

Core competencies are the sets of intellectual, personal, and social and emotional proficiencies that all students need to develop in order to engage in deep learning and life‐long learning, and become thoughtful, ethical and active citizens:

Communication

Thinking

Personal and Social

Communication

Encompasses the set of abilities that students use:

o to acquire, impart, and exchange information, experiences and ideas

o to connect, engage, and collaborate with others

o to recount and reflect on their experiences and learning

o to understand and effectively engage in the use of digital media.

Thinking

Creative thinking -involves the generation of new ideas and concepts that have value to the individual or others, and the development of these ideas and concepts from thought to reality.

Critical thinking -involves the analysis and evaluation of thinking in order to improve and extend it, and includes systematically examining thinking about information that comes to them through observation, experience, and various forms of communication

Personal and Social Competence

Positive Personal and Cultural Identity -Involves the awareness, understanding, and appreciation of all the facets that contribute to a healthy sense of oneself. It includes awareness and understanding of one’s family background, sense of place, heritag

e(s), language(s), beliefs, and perspectives..

Social awareness and responsibility -involves ability and predisposition to cooperate and collaborate with o

thers, display community-mindedness, empathize with and appreciate the perspective of others, and create and maintain healthy rela6onships within one's family, community, and society.

Personal awareness and responsibility -involves self‐regulation, taking responsibility for one’s actions, making ethical decisions in complex situations, accepting consequences, and understanding how their actions affect themselves and others

Competency Profiles and Illustrations

Explicit description and definition of key features of education in BC – “the educated citizen”

A way to connect all aspects of education across all grade levels, starting with preschool

Common language for teachers, students, families

Focus on personalized learning /SEL

Support for inclusion and differentiation

Each piece of work is an “illustration” of what you might observe, not an exemplar that we try to “match”

Each competency has…

• Definition and description of aspects

• Profiles

-Descriptions of developing competence

• Illustrations

-Samples of student work and student voice fromBC Classrooms.

The illustrations provide evidence of various profiles

What are you interested in focusing on?

Departmental focus?

What might that look like?

How will students know?

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