H. Curriculum Planning and Development for the Success of All Learners:
Reflection: The majority of my in depth experience with curriculum comes from my involvement in my district's math committee. We recently made a district wide switch of our curriculum and I had the opportunity to pilot it, gather data, and report back to our team.
I think one of the hardest tasks we have in education in teaching specific curriculum. Every day, we are essentially a salesperson trying to get our students to buy in to our pitch of our lesson. This job grows increasingly harder when you add in the diverse learning styles of students and the nonstop addition of new strategies. When I explain strategies that are new to me to my students, I find myself saying, “back in my day,” and I have only been teaching for five years. I believe that this shows the importance of having teams of educators communicating their struggles and analyzing data regarding the curriculum they are using. Just because the curriculum costs for than an average biweekly check, does not mean it is infallible. Our students are always developing and so should the curriculum we use to teach them. A shift I have noticed just throughout my time in my educational leadership program at MSUM is one to technology dependence. I understand that these are unprecedented times in which technology has served as an invaluable resource, but I have observed students feeling helpless in its absence. Although times are evolving and the overwhelming demand for technological skills are pushed onto our students, I think it is important as educators we do not lose sight of conventional and social methods of learning. |
Competencies: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. |