Elementary Curriculum Support

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Elementary Curriculum Support

• Regional Training Sessions
• January February 2003

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Welcome

• Participants Roles

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Todays Agenda

• Elementary Curriculum Units Phase II
• Grade 7 Mathematics Unit
• The Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner (3.0)

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Todays Agenda

• The Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner (3.0)
• Elementary Curriculum Units Phase II
• Grade 7 Mathematics Unit

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Highlights

• Background
• The Review Process
• Project Overview
• ECUs Phase II
• CD-ROM
• Implementation Support Document
• Distribution

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Background

• Phase I units released
• Distribution of CDs and Implementation Support
  Binders
• Training (provincial, boards)
• Phase II writing teams
• Phase II release

Elementary Curriculum Units

• On a parallel track . . .

Development of the Ontario Curriculum Unit
Planner (3.0)
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The Review Process

• The review process includes
• Peer review (content, strategies)

• OCC review (editing)
• ICE review of Catholic units (CGEs)
• EDU review of ECUs Phase II
• Curriculum policy and provincial context

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Project Overview

• Phase II includes
• 84 elementary curriculum units, grades 1-8

• HPE, Language, and The Arts
• single and combined grades
• Catholic and Public
• written by teachers for teachers
• CD-ROM
• Implementation Support Document/ISB
• Training (regional, local)

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Health and Physical Education

• Hop on the Health Wagon (12)
• The Safety Minute (23)
• Healthy Choices (34)
• Substance Use Abuse (45)
• Healthy Eating (56)
• Cleaner Air to Breathe (67)
• Healthy Living (78)

• The Heart Helpers (1)
• Stories Families Tell (2)
• Passport to Healthy Living (3)
• Knight School (4)
• Kidlympics (5)
• Lets Play (6)
• Bodies in Motion (7)
• Walk the Walk (8)
• Public

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Health and Physical Education

• Your Body is the Evidence (23)
• The Changing You (34)
• Energized for Life (45)
• Totally Healthy (56)
• Total Wellness (67)
• Responsible Choices (78)
• I am Special (12)

• My Personal Best (1)
• My Body for Life (2)
• The Life of Pugz (3)
• Our Special Relationships (4)
• Growing and Changing (5)
• A Balanced Being (6)
• Body, Mind, and Spirit (7)
• Responsible Decisions (8)
• Catholic

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Language

• Write Where We Belong (1 )
• Classroom Critters (2)
• A Day in the Life of a Pioneer Child (3)
• The Knightly News (4)
• Life Systems Magazine (5)
• Whats Your Story? (6)
• Magazine Mania (7)
• Poetry Power (8)
• Public

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Language

• Eye Spy (1)
• Fairy Tales Friends Foes (2)
• The Easter Story (3)
• Classroom Capers (4)
• A Journey Home (5)
• A Proposal to Lessen World Hunger (5)
• Newspapers in Language (6)
• Extra, Extra . . .Read All About It (7)
• Talk Shows (8)

• Crazy About Creatures (1 2)
• Fairy Tale Adventures (23)
• Read All About It (34)
• Dare You Delve into Fantasy (56)
• Writing for Radio (67)
• TV Morning News (78)
• Catholic

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The Arts

• Searchers of Seasons (1 2)
• The Great Factory Debate (23)
• Not in My Backyard (34)
• Healthy Living in Creative Ways (45)
• Weathering the Storm (45)
• Stages on Stage (56)
• Who Will Buy? (67)
• Surfing in the Elements (78)

• Come Play with Us (1)
• Art Affects (2)
• Land and Sea (3)
• At the Watering Hole (4)
• The Arts as Mood Makers (5)
• The Arts in Motion (6)
• Primal Rhythms Echoes (7)
• Art, Music, Dance/Drama (8)
• Public

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The Arts

• Music Creations(1)
• Masks, Mosaics, and Masterpieces (2)
• Creating a County Fair (3)
• Music in the Middle Ages (4)
• English Renaissance Fair (5)
• Music Maestro (6)
• Our Creative Identities (7)
• Building Character (8)

• Friendship (1 2)
• A Musical Patchwork (23)
• Canada Visual and Musical Journey (34)
• The Last Supper (45)
• Cultural Connections (56)
• Creating an Impression (67)
• Bringing Art to Life (78)
• Catholic

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Using the ECUs

• Considerations when using the ECUs
• Context for use
• Students prior knowledge experiences
• Board policies and procedures

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Using the ECUs - contd

• Personalize for your class
• Additional or different resources
• Alternative T/L and/or assessment strategies

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Using the ECUs - contd

• Teachers of combined grade classes will find
• samples across all grades in all subjects
• a variety of student groupings
• a variety of classroom management strategies
• sample strategies and assessment recording
  devices

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CD-ROM Contents

• Phase I ECUs in Mathematics, Science
  Technology, and Social Studies - History and
  Geography
• Phase II ECUs in HPE, Language and The Arts
• for single and combined grade classes

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CD-ROM Contents
continued

• Implementation Support Document Phase II
• Journey Activities

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Implementation Support Document

• Contains
• Planning Elementary Curriculum Units
• Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting
• Planning for Students with Special Needs
• Planning Considerations in Health and Physical
  Education, Language, and The Arts
• Suggestions for Using the Ontario Curriculum Unit
  Planner
• Learning Continua

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The Planning Process
This section includes

• Design Down Approach (Phase I)
• Long-Range and Unit Planning
• The Big Picture Local School Plan
• Steps in Unit Planning
• Looking at the Students
• Literacy Across the Curriculum
• Integration Maintaining Subject Integrity

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Special Education

• Clarification of terminology
• Accommodations
• Modifications
• Alternative expectations
• Individual Education Plans

This section includes
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Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting

• Clarification of terminology
• Assessment, evaluation, reporting
• Methods, strategies, recording devices
• Planning considerations
• Purpose, context, policies/resources, essential
  criteria
• Balancing classroom assessments

This section includes
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Planning Considerations in HPE

• Characteristics of an effective program
• Planning an effective program
• Long-range and unit planning
• Assessment strategies
• Classroom examples

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Planning Considerations in Language

• Characteristics of literate learners
• Characteristics of an effective program (balanced
  literacy model)
• Planning an effective program
• Long-range and unit planning
• Sample assessment plan

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Planning Considerations in The Arts

• Benefits of an effective Arts program
• Planning an effective program
• Long-range and unit planning
• Integrated unit planning
• Planning for combined-grade classes
• Assessment strategies
• Classroom examples

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Distribution

• CD-ROM 4 copies per school
• Implementation Support Binder
• 2 print copies per board