The Redesigned Curriculum is a popular topic for POPEI workshops so far this fall.
We have already completed several workshops on this topic, with many more planned throughout the school year.
We will also be hosting two full day Regional Workshops on the topic of the Redesigned Curriculum and K-3 Literacy. We will be in Burnaby on February 17, and then in Abbotsford on February 24. These will be open to all educators. Stay turned for registration information that can be shared with anyone who may be interested.
Last year, we launched a section of our website dedicated to the redesigned curriculum, where we shared "user & printer" friendly versions of the K-3 ELA curriculum, and the Core Competencies.
This Spring, POPEI created a Literacy Planning Guide that we have been excited to share with BC educators. It is now available in Word format, (linked on the website) for those who want to customize the guide for other subject areas or grades.
Feedback from educators has been extremely positive so far.
It has been very rewarding to support BC educators during the first few weeks of implementation, and we look forward to continuing to do so, throughout 2016-2017.
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Kindergarten Literacy Assessment Tools
Delta just rolled out a suite of tools for Kindergarten teachers for Literacy Assessment and Evaluation. The suite was designed by a team of K, Grade 1 and Learning support teachers. We aimed to provide useful tools to teachers to enable us to share common language and expectations for K that both reflect the new curriculum and dovetail into our Grade 1 literacy benchmarks.
Underlying this work is a Print Acquisition Continua that the team created to capture the developmental stages of children discovering how print works and using it for their purposes. One of the main reasons we decided to create a new continua was to be able to describe where kids are at on the journey based on what they CAN do.
We know how important it is for us as early learning teachers to help kids crack the literacy code. We also know that this is one small piece of the broader literacy competencies that we want for out kids. Teachers asked for and we gave them a set of term by term benchmarks that includes both the Print Acquisition skills and the broader literacy understandings, competencies and knowledge captured in the new curriculum.
To go along with these common standards and continua, we've provided 6 optional assessment tools for teachers to use or adapt for their purposes. The 6 optional assessment tools are focussed on the Print Acquisition continua. We think this is information teachers need to have about all their students. How teachers are able to get that information can change from class to class and from student to student.
For each area of Oral Language, Reading and Writing, teachers have access to an Observation Frame, a Class Profile, and an Interview Protocol. Each interview protocol includes both metacognition/self-concept questions, feedback and goal setting.
The entire collection of tools and resources can be found in the google folder below:
Delta Kindergarten Literacy Assessment Google Folder
We view all these documents as works in progress and are actively inviting feedback from our teachers as they implement this year. Other thoughts and feedback are also welcome :)
Underlying this work is a Print Acquisition Continua that the team created to capture the developmental stages of children discovering how print works and using it for their purposes. One of the main reasons we decided to create a new continua was to be able to describe where kids are at on the journey based on what they CAN do.
We know how important it is for us as early learning teachers to help kids crack the literacy code. We also know that this is one small piece of the broader literacy competencies that we want for out kids. Teachers asked for and we gave them a set of term by term benchmarks that includes both the Print Acquisition skills and the broader literacy understandings, competencies and knowledge captured in the new curriculum.
To go along with these common standards and continua, we've provided 6 optional assessment tools for teachers to use or adapt for their purposes. The 6 optional assessment tools are focussed on the Print Acquisition continua. We think this is information teachers need to have about all their students. How teachers are able to get that information can change from class to class and from student to student.
For each area of Oral Language, Reading and Writing, teachers have access to an Observation Frame, a Class Profile, and an Interview Protocol. Each interview protocol includes both metacognition/self-concept questions, feedback and goal setting.
The entire collection of tools and resources can be found in the google folder below:
Delta Kindergarten Literacy Assessment Google Folder
We view all these documents as works in progress and are actively inviting feedback from our teachers as they implement this year. Other thoughts and feedback are also welcome :)
Language Arts Curricular Competencies
To help folks understand the new English Language Arts Curriculum and facilitate cross grade understanding here is an excel doc with K-7 curricular competencies arranged to show how they progress from grade to grade
K-7 English Language Arts Curricular Competencies
K-7 English Language Arts Curricular Competencies
StrongStart Learning Standards
Last year our StrongStart facilitators wanted to focus their professional learning on the Early Learning Framework and ways it could inspire their practice. This year to help communicate StrongStart objectives to families we decided to take what we know about the Early Learning Framework and present it in a one pager that summarizes the elements of the framework that feel most applicable to StrongStart.
To help us align with the K-7 curriculum we decided to use the Understand-Do-Know framework of the transformed curriculum. The result is 1 pager with 4 Big Ideas (one for each ELF domain) many competencies and even a few content objectives.
We're currently focussing on documentation and are using the competencies (turned into I can statements) to gives us some common language with parents and between StrongStarts.
Click here for the learning standards in a Word document
To help us align with the K-7 curriculum we decided to use the Understand-Do-Know framework of the transformed curriculum. The result is 1 pager with 4 Big Ideas (one for each ELF domain) many competencies and even a few content objectives.
We're currently focussing on documentation and are using the competencies (turned into I can statements) to gives us some common language with parents and between StrongStarts.
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Okanagan ELN Spring Meeting
The Okanagan Mainline Early Literacy Network group wrapped up their year on Friday, June 10th with a visit from Dr. Leyton Schnellert. For those of you who have not yet have the pleasure of meeting Leyton, on paper he is a professor and researcher at UBC Okanagan, is a well-respected author, and he co-chairs the BC Rural Education Advisory. If you have met him, however, you are already friends!
Leyton shared with our group his latest book, Developing Self-Regulating Learners, which he co-wrote with Deb Butler and Nancy Perry. After laying a foundation of the Nature of Learning (Dumont et al, 2012) and the building blocks for innovative learning, Leyton went on to describe how self-regulating learning is 'active' and strategic learning. Teachers have an important role to play in a child's development of self-regulating learning in both independent and social situations. Although we got just a taste of what's in the book, the hum in the room after Leyton spoke gave me an idea of just how powerful and timely his message was.
As part of our group share, Donna Kozak (SD 23's Early Learning and Literacy Co-coordinator) extended the invitation to their district's Early Learning Summer Institute. The topics include:
Considering the layers of inquiry-based learning:
Transforming education practice
The third educator: Transforming your
learning environment into a space of possibilities with Joanne
Babalis http://myclassroomtransformation.blogspot.ca/
To register,
visit https://ereg.sd23.bc.ca/.
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