1 / 10

The Layered Curriculum

So Many Great Ideas, So Little Class Time. The Layered Curriculum. Helen Porth Lexington Middle School Lexington, SC hporth@lexington1.net. Frustrations in the Classroom. 2 Classrooms: Comatose Bouncing off the ceilings It all sounds good, but it’s not realistic.

kalea
Download Presentation

The Layered Curriculum

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. So Many Great Ideas, So Little Class Time The Layered Curriculum Helen Porth Lexington Middle School Lexington, SC hporth@lexington1.net

  2. Frustrations in the Classroom • 2 Classrooms: • Comatose • Bouncing off the ceilings • It all sounds good, but it’s not realistic

  3. What I “should” be doing • Multiple Intelligences • Learning Styles • Literacy in the Content Area • Bloom’s taxonomy • Technology • Prior Knowledge Connections • Student-led Discussions • Accommodations for IEP students • ESOL Students • Cultural Diversity

  4. Here Comes Differentiated Instruction…. You want me to do what?!?!?!?

  5. Layered CurriculumA Balancing Act in the Classroom It does not….. take away your teaching style It does…. put the burden back on the student (The Power of I is a BIG component of this curriculum. Student work is not accepted until it is done correctly.)

  6. What A Unit Looks Like • Layers • Based on Blooms • Assignments • Based on Learning styles/Multiple Intelligences/Modalities • Point Values • Based on the number of days/number of assignments

  7. From the student’s perspective: • Choices • “I just like the fact that we get to choose what we want to do.” • “I like the part where we don’t have to listen to the teacher talk.” • Engagement • “My favorite part about the layered units is that we are able to choose which activity we are more interested in.” • “I like it because we’re doing something different everyday.” • Organization • “My favorite part of the layered unit was the way we keep everything in folders.” • “My favorite part was the different colors on the sheet.”

  8. Examples: • www.help4teachers.com • Sample Units • Layered Curriculum books/workbooks • My webpage: • https://www.edline.net/pages/Lexington_Middle_School/Classes/21107100-03

  9. Advice • Letter to Parents before you start • Work Together • To plan • To implement --- split classes for activities • Folders/Binders – system for keeping up with work • Grade Book Setup • Power of I

More Related