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Layered Curriculum

Layered Curriculum is a student-centered method allowing personalized learning through choice, variety, and ownership. It progresses from remembering to creating, enhancing critical thinking skills.

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Layered Curriculum

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  1. Layered Curriculum

  2. What is Layered Curriculum? • Layered Curriculum is a method of differentiating instruction in the classroom. • Allows each student to learn in a variety of ways simultaneously. • Choice Centered. Students choose how they want to learn the material. • Student Centered Learning

  3. Student Choice • Empowers students • Gives Ownership • Prompts self learning • Takes Time and Practice “Creatures want control, if you don’t give it to them, they will find ways to take it” -------Nunley

  4. INTRODUCTION TO LAYERED CURRICULUM

  5. Layer C: Remember & Understand Skill Type: : define, describe, duplicate, identify, label, list, match, memorize, name, order, outline, recognize, relate, recall, repeat, reproduce, select, or state information. Example Activities: • Graphic Organizers • Reading • Matching Cards • Worksheets • Notes • Videos • Memorization, • Building flash cards • Summarizing paragraphs

  6. Layer C Key Points: • Set up like a dinner menu with choices for students • Give 3-4 times as many options that you wish to be completed • Big Variety • Student Created Assignments “All assignments at this C layer are graded through an Oral Defense” Nunley

  7. Menu Example: Layer C

  8. Layer B – Apply and Analyze Skill Type: apply, manipulate, discover, hypothesize and prove, demonstrate, or problem solve Example Activities: • Kinetic Activities • Labs • Webquests • Make Videos • Presentations • Quizzes • Games Indoor/Outdoor

  9. Layer B: Menu Example

  10. Layer A – Evaluate and Create Skill Type: a critical analysis of all the knowledge the students have on the subject and then adds “values, morality, ethics, and personal opinion Example Activities: • Pose critical thinking questions • Extensive projects • Individualized Research Questions • Interdisciplinary projects • Address controversial issues and questions

  11. Layer A: Menu Example

  12. Three Keys to Layered Curriculum: 1. Hold Students Accountable for Learning, Students are awarded points based on what they learned and not what they did. Oral Defense. 2. Offer Choice whenever and where ever possible. “Creatures want control, if you don’t give it to them, they will find ways to take it”3. Encourage Higher Level Thinking

  13. Get Started • Start Small & Build Up • Teach Students the Process • Practice Days • Personalize for Students & Teacher • Go Digitial

  14. Some Resources From Kathie Nunley

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