The following self reported and verified activities were conducted by the Hoboken Curriculum Committee on July 22, 2009. -Dr. PetrosinoWorld Languages- Today, the World Language group completed the revisions for the UBD planners for grades 11 Standard Level and 12 Higher Level of the Diploma Program. We completed the revisions of the UBD and MYP Planners for grade 11 Standard Level and began to work on the MYP planners for grade 11 Higher Level.
Health/Physical Education- Today we completed revisions for grades 6-10 and converted all unit planners to the new form. When we reconvene the week of August 3rd, we will create assessments, add technology standards to our lessons before printing and organizing final copies of plans.
Social Studies- Today Damian and Chris focused of the unit assessments for the high school. I worked on the district assessments for both the 3rd and 5th grades. I have attached the assessments to this email as you asked. We will be continuing to work on the assessment tomorrow.
Science- Today for grade 10 ( biology), the enduring understandings and essential questions were revised according to the UbD format for units 1, 2, and 7). Then the MYP Planner was typed and the information from the existing MYP planner was transferred into the new MYP Format for those units. For Grade 6, all of the existing MYP Planner were typed and the information from the existing MYP planner was transferred into the new MYP Format for all the units in grade 6. The technology standards were aligned for completed units in grade 6 and 10.
Technology- We remapped grades 7&8 MYP Technology units and continued reworking/consolidating existing unit plans into the new MYP format. We completed writing the technology standards into World Languages units.
Disclaimer: The 2009 Summer Curriculum Committee is roughly 50% the size of the 2008 Summer Curriculum Committee (29 teachers vs 60 teachers) and the budget allocated is approximately 2/3 less than the allocation for Summer 2008. Dr. Petrosino has explained numerous times that this represents a significant reduction in both expenditures and faculty involved with the curriculum project.
