What Do We Want Them to Learn?

1. What Do We Want Them to Learn? Arabic Curriculum Development atRiffa Views International School Bridget Doogan

2. ISS / RVIS Curriculum Development Plan

3. School Goals… • Commitment to quality • Dedication and perseverance • Inner confidence and risk taking • Reflection and readjustment of ideas and priorities

4. The Process This will be a facilitated process • Collaboration • Support • Technology

5. Basic Tenets • Curriculum development will be a facilitated process. • The curriculum will exemplify research based best practices in American international education. • The curriculum will be designed to accommodate standards based grading and reporting practices.

6. Backwards Design Start With the End In Mind Wiggins / McTighe

7. Backwards Design Start With the End In Mind Wiggins / McTighe

8. Stage 1 Desired Outcomes We already have… • Standards and benchmarks • Draft frameworks • Some published programs • Identified best practices

9. Stage 1 Identify Desired Results

10. Stage 2 Determine Acceptable Evidence

11. Stage 3 Learning Plan

12. The Curriculum Will Articulate • Standards and benchmarks • Cross curricular standards (technology/communication) • Enduring understandings / essential questions • Knowledge and skills • Instructional sequence • Formative assessments • Summative assessments and exemplars of student work • Instructional resources

13. Where Do We Start? Identify the standards and benchmarks that are essential. With the Standards • Not all content is equal! • Standards contain a range of performance objectives and standard statements. • Some benchmarks are moreimportant than others in helping students succeed!

14. Start (and end) with the Standards

15. 35,000 Foot Mapping

16. 10,000 Foot Mapping

17. Curriculum Mapping - Ground Level