Week+11


 * Week 11

Essential Questions**
 * What are the essential components of curriculum documents?
 * How does one judge the effectiveness of curriculum?


 * Blog Entries**
 * [|What do curriculum documents look like?]
 * [|Sparta's Curriculum]
 * [|What do the curriculum documents for your subject area/grade level look like? Are they easy to use?]
 * [|What do the curriculum documents for your subject area or grade level look like?]
 * [|Curriculum Docs]
 * [|More with Curriculum Docs]
 * [|Curriculum Mapping our way to Relevance]


 * Curriculum Activity**
 * Evaluate your own curriculum for the essential or key components. What are they? Record on a small whiteboard.
 * Pair up with someone else in the class, not necessarily by grade level or subject area, and share your results. Together, record the key components of your curricula on a large whiteboard to share with the rest of the class.
 * Choose a school district from the list found at the bottom of this page and research your same grade level / subject area. Compare and contrast your large whiteboard list with the other district's. Use a different color marker to write-in differences and underline similarities.

rss url="http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=37206823@N02&lang=en-us&format=atom" number="20" enclosure="true"  [|Link to the Stream]
 * Results**


 * Reflection Questions**
 * What would you like to see in a curriculum?
 * What changes would you make?
 * What would stay the same?
 * What are the "Essential Elements"?


 * Group Share** **and** **Group Discussion**
 * Group sharing of boards
 * How does one judge the effectiveness of a curriculum? Who makes this judgment? And how?
 * What is "Curriculum Evaluation"? Why Evaluate? Who is involved? Is there a procedure to follow?


 * Resources**
 * [|New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards]
 * [|NJ QSAC]
 * [|Evaluation in the Human Rights Education Field]
 * [|Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum: Planning, Management, and Ideology]
 * Read through [|A Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum], paying attention to the definitions of guaranteed and viable, and [|Marzano's video] explaining the idea, and the five action steps.


 * District Research**
 * [|Hillsborough Township Public Schools]
 * [|Ridgewood Public Schools]
 * [|Randolph Township Schools]
 * [|Bernards Township Public Schools]
 * [|Madison Public Schools]
 * [|Montgomery Township Schools]


 * Assignments**
 * End of the semester is quickly coming - Be Prepared with your assignments!
 * Current Events
 * Supplemental Articles - Curriculum Evaluation and Student Assessment