Throughout this year my teaching partner and I have added unit plans and amended prior unit plans on Atlas Rubicon. My specific focus this year has been on developing units for Math, in accordance with the new adoption of the AERO standards and the new curriculum. During the course of the year I developed 5 units for math including Number Sense, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Fractions and Data, Measurement and Geometry. In each of these units I developed materials and benchmarks through stage 2, including assessments, and through all stages in the Multiplication and Division unit.
Throughout this process I realized that it was beneficial for me to stop and think about the long term scope of my teaching. As a classroom teacher it is very easy to get stuck in the everyday happenings of the classroom, without stopping to think about the overall direction of the course. I also have never had the opportunity to develop my own curriculum for math as I was always in a larger public school district where the curriculum was mandated. Throughout this process I found myself challenged to stretch my thinking and expand my methods in order to develop a unit that had a clear focus, strong instructional strategies and a clear, concise final assessment.
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| Curriculum map for unit 3 Multiplication and Division |
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