Learn how you can determine which TEKS need a heavy or light touch by using specific critierion such as 'some, most, all students' and the relevance, readiness, and endurance components recommended by Dr. Doug Reeves. After identifying power or essential TEKS for their content, teachers will design a curriclum road map for students with critical questions linked to assessments and crucial concepts for their content by analyzing the TEKS and district Curriculum documents for Course and/or Unit Planning.
The day long workshops are designed for individual content teachers and content teaching teams (PLC) as well as school and district leaders to use the Understand By Design (UBD) methodology or planning backwards process to design curriculum at the course and unit level. By narrowing the focus of their teaching on necessary TEKS for student understanding, teachers can support the learning of all students.
The workshops are created and will be presented by Region 13 Strategic Instruction specialists who were themselves teachers and principals. We believe the collaborative conversations among teachers and administrators about the essential TEKS and content, that we expect all students to master, can have an enormous impact on student learning. As Marzano said, a guaranteed and viable curriculum is essential for student achievement.
A workshop assisting teachers like you in using your curriculum documents to build better Units of Study for the 2017 - 2018 school year.