State of pace

The State of PACE Address

2010-2011

State of PACE

• State Standards• Roll of PACE Specialist • When does the year begin? • Required and Menu Units • MyPISD/Curriculum Planner/SAS Data Entry Portal• Institute/Academy• 101?

Building Bridges PACE Setters STEP TEAM

STEP Team(Supporting Teachers of Elementary PACE)

• Margot Anderson – Hedgcoxe• Rick Navarre – Hunt• Karen McKinney – Rasor• Michelle Meeks – Haun• Amy Moore – Thomas• Kim Ramirez – Wyatt• Kelly Taylor - McCall

What does the STEP Team mean to your campus?

• Differentiated meetings • 3 to 7 options• More specific to campus needs • A representative voice• More collaboration and involvement • Service, service, service!

Curriculum • Poll teachers• Honor the poll• Train in backward design• Honor 21 C. Skills• Respectful Assessment• Student centered• Spirit of discovery and ownership

It’s a Small World: Travels with Technology

Assessment

• Please take a few minutes and read the culminating assessment for this unit

• Working within your table group, identify what concepts and skills our students will learn in this unit

• Share out in large group

Enduring Understanding

Understanding myself and my place in the

world through research and technology

The Journey Begins….

• Lesson 1: Using An Atlas• Lesson 2: Latitude• Lesson 3: Longitude• Lesson 4: Measuring Maps • Lesson 5: Time Zones• Lesson 6: Places I Visit

Places I Visit

Where do you go? Where have you been?

Please work with the group of travelers at your table to create a tour. Use the Google Earth directions in your folder.

See how many destinations you can visit in the next ten minutes.

Be ready to report out.

Continuing the journey….

• Lesson 7: Where Next?• Lesson 8: Trekking to Timbuktu in Mali, Africa • Lesson 9: All the Way to Timbuktu• Lesson 10: Fortunately/Unfortunately • Lesson 11: Understanding Culture • Lesson 12: How Do We Save Our Memories?

Destination Unknown• Culminating Assessment • 21st C. Skills

– Multicultural– “real world” or “mass amateurization” – Student centered/Collaborative– Discovery based– Application based on problem solving -Technology is embedded to support

educational experience

And now…we dance!

Thank you to our curriculum writers!

Kelly Taylor (McCall), Kelly Froemming (Wells), Sherri Browning (Mitchell)

Q & A