The Pride
PHS Staff Bulletin November 25 - December 7
Our Mission & Our Vision
Vision: To be a campus of EXPERT educators that work together to positively impact individual lives and improve our community by having 100% of our students graduate high school with a written actionable post-secondary plan.
Chapter 3: Transforming Curriculum
Identifying Essential Content
"The first step in creating a guaranteed and viable curriculum is to identify the essential content, often called prioritized standards. Sets of academic standards (such as state-designed standards) typically articulate far more content than is possible to teach in the time available. At the beginning of the 21st century, Marzano (2003) estimated that there are about 9,042 hours of instructional time in K-12 education, but the standards would take 15,465 hours to teach. This trend of disparity between content requirements and available instructional time has continued (see Marzano, Yanoski, Hoegh, & Simms, 2013). As such, it is crucial that collaborative teams distill the broad standards presented by their state down to a manageable amount of essential content.
A collaborative team might do this by looking at each standard for their grade level and content area, having each teacher choose the standards (or parts of standards) he or she thinks are essential, and then discussing and coming to a consensus as to which content is essential. As a measure for determining the importance of individual standards, groups can use Larry Ainsworth's (2003) criteria: endurance, leverage, and readiness. The majority of instructional time is then spent on the prioritized standards, with other supplemental content being woven into the priority content or taught separately but with less emphasis. We typically recommend that collaborative teams identify between eight and fifteen priority standards for the entire year for a given subject area or course."
--excerpt from Collaborative Teams that Transform Schools,
Marzano, Heflebower, Hoegh, Warrick, and Grift
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November 28--Anabel Del Bosque
December 4--Sara Kallio
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