Davis Drive Middle School Curriculum Night

1. Davis Drive Middle School Curriculum Night November 1, 2012

2. Discussion Overview • Curriculum Changes • DDMS: • Impact on Students • School Support • Home Support • Questions & Answers

3. 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

4. Curriculum Changes continued

5. 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

6. 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 

7. Healthful Living

8. Curriculum Changes: Healthful Living

9. Electives

10. Curriculum Changes: Arts, CTE and World Languages • Embedding Common Core Standards • Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening and Language • Students are expected to:

11. Science

12. Science

14. It’s All About Literacy

15. Language Arts

16. Curriculum Changes: Language Arts • College and Career Readiness Standards:

21. Writers Notebook “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken

25. Other Noticeable Changes • Thematic Units for each grade level • Last about six weeks • Teachers no longer using entire novels or book studies excerpts

26. 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. 

27. Social Studies

28. Curriculum Changes: Social Studies • Social Studies is more than memorization of people, places, dates, and events

29. Social Studies Includes:

30. Social Studies Assessment • Use Timelines • No longer content base • Make Connections • Read Maps

31. Social Studies Sample Lesson

32. Math

33. Curriculum Changes: Math

34. 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

36. 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”

37. 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

38. DDMS

39. Impact on Students

40. Impact on Students continued

41. DDMS Support

42. Home Support • Checklist to improve performance and study habits (see handout) Blackboard • Assignments • Instructional Powerpoints • Additional Resources • Textbook links (math) • Video links

43. Q&A Time