Curriculum Planning & Developing
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H1. Demonstrating the ability to enhance teaching and learning through curriculum assessment and strategic planning for all learners, including early childhood, elementary, middle and junior high school, high school, special education, and adult levels;
H2. Demonstrating the ability to provide planning and methods to anticipate trends and educational implications. H3. Demonstrating the ability to develop, implement, and monitor procedures to align sequence, and articulate curriculum and validate curricular procedures; H4. Demonstrating the ability to identify instructional objectives and use valid and reliable performance indicators and evaluative procedures to measure performance outcomes; H5. Appropriately using learning technologies; H6. Demonstrating an understanding of alternative instructional designs, curriculum, behavior management, and assessment accommodations and modifications; H7. Demonstrating an understanding of urgency of global competitiveness. Artifacts |
When I first began my leadership roles while at DaVinci Academy, I was asked to pick out a new curriculum for the middle school math. This was not overwhelming to me in any way as my previous three positions in schools were curriculum
absent positions. I had to either create or determine which curriculum to use. But this time, I was able to do months of research, meet with vendors, fiddle around online and discuss with my colleagues. We ultimately chose Holt and rewarded our administrators with some of the highest school-wide scores in the state. While at Chaska-Chanhassan , I was working the summer school program and noticed that their curriculum through Edmentum was way off standards. When I discussed this with the director, he offered me to change the curriculum. When I was finished, I was then paid to rewrite all of the math curriculum for the 9-12 ALC program for Chaska-Chanhassan school district. I then wrote a similar curriculum for the RAVE ALC in Apple Valley. Currently, over 20 ABE schools use my Edmentum curriculum online as it is standards based and well-organized. Lastly, I believe in doing curriculum across multiple subjects. Intercurricular projects and ideas help students obtain a more global view of a subject. My favorite is to combine math and art. Their relationship, especially with fractals, is magical. |
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