Curriculum Mapping for the Common Core Standards

O. Nesi – I.S. 281Library Spring Conference

May 18, 2011

We Told You So!(Finding the Overlap Between CCS and IFC)

Please complete the Do Now:

• CCS Handout

• IFC Posters

What Common Core Standards?

At First … Mostly Fear & Denial

• 2009-2010 – 7th and 8th Grade ELA curriculum mapping for uniformity

• Summer 2010 CCS workshops

• Straw grab materials reaction

• “We’ve got until 2014…”

Then … The Realizations:

• Ordering and “dumping” of materials would not be enough

• The extent of the paradigm shift

• The amount of work involved

Followed by Panic

… and Then More Common Core Workshops and Denial

The Fall Saturday Workshop

• Consider the “tasks”

• We’ve known this all along

• Fixing the task is not enough

• “Fixed” tasks should inform instruction

The 6th Grade ELA Work Begins(With CCS still off in the distance, we work hard

to make some missteps)

• Lead teacher meetings to verbalize and plan to address dissatisfaction

• Development of ELA Survey

• Development of Resources Used survey

The Epiphany

• Uniformity of curriculum will not necessarily equal CCS implementation

• Goal Merging: As long as we want both uniformity and CCS, why not address both issues at once?

The Sites• Common Core

• A curriculum mapping site: http://commoncore.org/maps/index.php/maps/grades/

• We may not have to completely re-invent the wheel after all

Think, Turn and Talk Directions

• Check all that apply on the Think Turn & Talk

handout

• Be sure to provide brief explanations where

necessary

• Turn to a neighbor and talk it out

Site Format

• Essential Question and Overview

• Focus Standards

• Student Objectives

• Suggested Works

• Sample Activities and Assessments

• Additional Resources

A Plan …

• Structured Explorations

• Resource lists for the units/FAMIS

• Folders of printable resources

• Two meetings per week to hammer it out

In the Future

• Continue work on 6th Grade unit plans

• Re-do 6th Grade book room

• Same general plan for 7th Grade next year

• 8th Grade the year after that

Please take a few moments to evaluate this workshop.