The document discusses changes to the curriculum and competencies. It provides: 1) An update on changes to grades 8-9 curriculum and timelines. 2) A discussion of similarities and differences across subject areas for grades 8-9, including opportunities and challenges. 3) An overview of core competencies in communication, thinking, and personal and social skills, including definitions and profiles of developing competence.

1. G O R D O N P O W E L L & B R O O K E D O U G L A S
S E P 2 0 1 5
Redesigned Curriculum

2. Since We Last Met
 Update on8/9 curriculum changes and timelines
 Update on competencies
 Update on 10-12 changes

8. How is your curriculuar area changing?
 Discuss:
 What is different for within your subject area for grade 8 &
grade 9?
 What is the same?
 What are some opportunities?
 What are some challenges?
 What are your questions?
 Post your group’s answers on titan pad
 Make sure you have something for each category

9. Similarities and Differences Across Subjects
 What do we notice?
 How to move forward?

10. Competencies
 Communication recap
 Continuum pre-k to adult, context dependent
 Primary use at this point is goal setting

11. Core Competencies
Core competencies are the sets of intellectual,
personal, and social and emotional proficiencies
that all students need to develop in order to e
ngage in deep learning and life‐long learning, a
nd become thoughtful, ethical and active
citizens:
 Communication
 Thinking
 Personal and Social

12. Communication
Encompasses the set of abilities that students use:
o to acquire, impart, and exchange information,
experiences and ideas
o to connect, engage, and collaborate with others
o to recount and reflect on their experiences and
learning
o to understand and effectively engage in the use of
digital media.

13. Thinking
Creative thinking -
involves the generation of new ideas and concepts t
hat have value to the individual or others, and the
development of these ideas and concepts from thou
ght to reality.
Critical thinking -
involves the analysis and evaluation of thinking in
order to improve and extend it, and includes syste
matically examining thinking about information that
comes to them through observation, experience, an
d various forms of communication

14. Personal and Social Competence
Positive Personal and Cultural Identity -
Involves the awareness, understanding, and appreciation of all the fac
ets that contribute to a healthy sense of oneself. It includes awareness
and understanding of one’s family background, sense of place, heritag
e(s), language(s), beliefs, and perspectives..
Social awareness and responsibility -
involves ability and predisposition to cooperate and collaborate with o
thers, display community-mindedness, empathize with and
appreciate the perspective of others, and create and maintain
healthy rela6onships within one's family, community, and society.
Personal awareness and responsibility -
involves self‐regulation, taking responsibility for one’s actions, making
ethical decisions in complex situations, accepting consequences, and u
nderstanding how their actions affect themselves and others

15. Competency Profiles and Illustrations
 Explicit description and definition of key features of educatio
n in BC – “the educated citizen”
 A way to connect all aspects of education across all grade le
vels, starting with preschool
 Common language for teachers, students, families
 Focus on personalized learning /SEL
 Support for inclusion and differentiation
 Each piece of work is an “illustration” of what you might observe,
not an exemplar that we try to “match”

16. Each competency has…
• Definition and description of aspects
• Profiles
-Descriptions of developing competence
• Illustrations
-Samples of student work and student voice from
BC Classrooms.
The illustrations provide evidence of various profiles

17. Profiles

18. ‘I’ statements

19. Profiles
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20. Facets of Critical Thinking
1. Analyze and critique

21. 2. Question and investigate

22. 3. Develop and design

24. What are you interested in focusing on?
 Departmental focus?
 What might that look like?
 How will students know?
 Share on titan pad