{"id":38,"date":"2016-01-28T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/eportfolio-sample\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2016-06-20T20:58:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T00:58:34","slug":"curriculum-responsibilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/overview\/setting-context\/curriculum-responsibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Responsibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the benefits of teaching at UPCS is that teachers have curricular autonomy. That said, I still follow the Massachusetts State Frameworks when designing my lessons. What changes is the amount of time I can spend on it. It feels like a unique feature of the school because I am already converting lessons I have taught in an hour into week long and even two week long units. The focus on quality of learning takes priority rather than trying to cover everything possible.<\/p>\n<p>When I started teaching the 8th grade, I picked up from cell organelles and structure and moved into genetics. From that point, I followed the Massachusetts State Frameworks. The majority of the content that I teach focuses on biology. I have built in elements of ecology and environmental science when I can.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently we have started some engineering projects and have begun to prepare for the 8th grade science MCAS. We&#8217;ve been doing an MCAS starter each day for the past month or so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8th Grade Units \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Genetics and Evolution<\/li>\n<li>Scientific Classification<\/li>\n<li>Adaptations<\/li>\n<li>Anatomy<\/li>\n<li>Forest Ecology<\/li>\n<li>Biodiversity<\/li>\n<li>Symbiotic Relationships<\/li>\n<li>Carbon Cycle<\/li>\n<li>Bridge Building<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 12 Grade Units \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Tragedy of the Commons<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Local Food Justice and Genetically Modified Organisms<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Sustainable Energy<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Climate Change<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Agriculture and Food Systems<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Current Topics in Environmental Science<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Global Environmental Politics<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Environmental Lobbying<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Water Quality Monitoring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>7th Grade Lessons:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Geodes<\/li>\n<li>Volcanoes<\/li>\n<li>James Webb Space Telescope<\/li>\n<li>Note-taking Skills<\/li>\n<li>Team Building<\/li>\n<li>Black Holes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>9th Grade Lessons:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cell Structure and Organelles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/396\/2016\/01\/MA-Sci-Frameworks-6-8.pdf\">MA Sci Frameworks 6-8 Life Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/396\/2016\/01\/Mass-Science-Frameworks-Technology-and-Engineering.pdf\">Mass Science Frameworks Technology and Engineering<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next Up:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/learning-teaching-portraits\/\">Teaching<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the benefits of teaching at UPCS is that teachers have curricular autonomy. That said, I still follow the Massachusetts State Frameworks when designing my lessons. What changes is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}