Year planning tool box
Creating a year plan results in bringing together a variety of ideas and resources to plan, create, and organize the experiences teachers anticipate students will participate in for the purpose of optimizing their development of literacy [science litearcy, mathematical literacy, or literature literacy].
General Curriculum related ideas and sources:
| Procedures for curriculum changes |
| Academic organizational patterns |
| Model for developing curriculum |
| Related to school's mission statement - generic sample - integrated mission - |
| Additional general curriculum: see pedagody curriculum planning |
Major sources of subject and subject embedded ideas and resources:
| Mathematical | Science | Literature |
| National standards by grade range | National Standards | |
| Project 2061 benchmarks | Project 2061 | |
| State standards | State standards | |
| Curriculum documents | Curriculum documents | Curriculum documents |
| Principled procedures | Principled procedures | Principled procedures |
| Text books, commercial programs, and federally funded programs | Text books, commercial programs, and federally funded programs |
These documents are used by the teacher or a grade level team to create their own personalized planning documents. Sometimes this is referred to as unpacking the standards. While most people associate content knowledge with an unpacking activity it is certainly a worthwhile endeavor to unpack other areas of the standards or other dimensions of literacy. The following table includes such teacher created documents.
Explanations on Literacy and curriculum planning
| Mathematical | Science | Literature |
| Principled procedures | Principled procedures | Principled procedures |
| Unpacked Standards - Inquiry Properties of matter |
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| Category outline of literacy |
Category outline of literacy | Category outline of literacy |
Documents that identify scope and sequence Rubrics |
Documents that identify scope and sequence | Documents that identify scope and sequence |