[ola] Re: curriculum maps?
- From: Cathy Bird <cathy.bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 01:12:15 -0700 (MST)
Calysta - I was just thinking of this same question as I tossed and turned
tonight. My train of thought followed yours: I plan to highlight the topics of
skill development in my second year classes. We have been mostly focused on
describing up until recently, so that will be the topic of November. It still
needs lots of revisiting and I am formulating an activity for circumlocution
that is akin to a life-size game board (more on that as the idea grows into
reality). December has been a boom of comparison (especially hot is Gale vs.
Peeta) that I plan to take into January for sure, just so I can use the Senor
Wooly activity someone sent in a post! One of my classes is begging to talk
about future and past (imagine all sorts of arm motions signing 'yesterday'),
so that will also factor in but more as a framework for comparing and
narrating.
I am not sure that this follows the suggestions Darcy/OWL have made, however,
but it is so late that I can barely remember my name. I know that a focus on
the curriculum triangle (students/teacher/everything else) will allow you to
declare a topic and still have room to grow it organically. I believe that
declaring a skill topic will do much the same thing, and I found that it really
helps me to bring my thoughts back to that skill when I hit that 'what next'
moment in a class.
Cathy Bird
Middle School French
Colorado Academy
303-986-1501, x.2622
----- Original Message -----
From: "Calysta Phillips" <cphillips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:24:01 PM
Subject: [ola] curriculum maps?
Hi all,
A quick question before we head out on break and I mull over January plans. I
forget how Darcy addressed this at our conference... how would I write a
curriculum map of the next term if I don't really know where I'm going?
Could I do it by skills? Technically, we're working on all the skills all the
time: questioning, describing, analyzing, comparing, etc...
Someone give me a clue. If it doesn't say specifically the TOPIC we are
covering, how can I lay out a direction (both for myself and the
administration)?
Mil gracias!
Here's my favorite typo of all: Feliz Ano Nuevo
Teehee!
Calysta
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