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Davis Drive Middle School Curriculum Night. November 1, 2012. Discussion Overview. Curriculum Changes DDMS : Impact on Students School Support Home Support Questions & Answers . Curriculum Changes.
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Davis Drive Middle School Curriculum Night November 1, 2012
Discussion Overview • Curriculum Changes • DDMS: • Impact on Students • School Support • Home Support • Questions & Answers
Curriculum Changes • NC Department of Public Instruction adopted the Common Core for Language Arts and Math in 2010 • Essential Standards were also adopted in 2010 for Science, Social Studies, Healthful Living, Arts, Guidance and World Languages • The new curriculum is to be taught and assessed in the 2012-13 school year
Curriculum Changes continued • 3 Year Process for Previous Curriculum Adoptions (one content per 5 year rotation): • Textbook Adoption • Transition Year with Old and New Curriculum • Implementation • 12-13 School Year: • No textbooks • #2 and #3 are combined
Curriculum Changes continued Teachers are: • Working10-12 Hour Days…New Teacher Syndrome • Attending trainings & professional development • Spending additional time collaborating on lessons & assessments • Parents are copying on Tuesdays
Curriculum Changes: Arts, CTE and World Languages • Embedding Common Core Standards • Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening and Language • Students are expected to:
Curriculum Changes: Language Arts • College and Career Readiness Standards:
Writers Notebook “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken
Other Noticeable Changes • Thematic Units for each grade level • Last about six weeks • Teachers no longer using entire novels or book studies excerpts
Language Arts • For first quarter, 6th grade Language Arts teachers have put a letter grade on 2500 papers PER TEACHER. • That is with 125 students per team, at 20 grades for this quarter. This projects to 10,000 graded papers for the year for each of us.
Curriculum Changes: Social Studies • Social Studies is more than memorization of people, places, dates, and events
Social Studies Assessment • Use Timelines • No longer content base • Make Connections • Read Maps
Mathematical Practices Curriculum Changes: Math continued • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them • Reason abstractly and quantitatively • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others • Model with mathematics • Use appropriate tools strategically • Attend to precision • Look for and make use of structure • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
Math Summary • Curriculum is packed! • For example, last year we spent 4 days on teaching inequalities…this year, same material, 1 day. • Teachers are continuously balancing pace of class with student proficiency. • Little time for teachers to remediate in the classroom • Especially true for 7+ and CCM1 due to “Gap Documents”
Administration Meeting with Dr. Wirt • Math data is being collected • Students need strong foundational skills to be successful in: • 7th Grade Math 7+ • 8th Grade CCI • Math 6+ students are doing extremely well • Discuss plan to accelerate students who did not take 5/6 Math
Home Support • Checklist to improve performance and study habits (see handout) Blackboard • Assignments • Instructional Powerpoints • Additional Resources • Textbook links (math) • Video links