The type of curriculum that consists of actual objects like texts, buildings, technologies, etc.
What is the Physical Curriculum?
100
the competing theory to Wiggns' and McTighe's Facets of Understanding that creates a hierarchy of student learning.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
100
The stage of Understanding By Design in which teachers use standards to identify what students must know and be able to do.
What is stage 1?
100
The component of the Danielson Framework described in the vignette below.
"Mr. Thomas creates highly engaging learning activities for students"
What is designing coherent instruction?
100
The term used by PDE to describe what students should KNOW at the end of a unit.
What are concepts?
200
A type of curriculum in which students have little autonomy, yet the emphasis is on high level critical thinking and reasoning.
What is the Mastery Curriculum?
200
Students are asked to debate a topic from the opposite side that they believe in.
What is perspective?
200
The stage of understanding by design in which teachers prepare their lesson plans.
What is Stage 3?
200
The component of the Danielson Framework described in the vignette below.
"Mrs. Woods creates activities in which students share elements of their family's cultures"
What is "Demonstrating Knowledge of Students"?
200
The term used by PDE to describe what students should DO at the end of a unit.
What are competencies?
300
The portion of curriculum that isn't stated or explicit, yet students learn from.
What is the hidden curriculum?
300
The facet of understanding displayed in the following vignette:
Students write a "letter home" from the perspective of a revolutionary war era soldier.
Empathy
300
The stage of Understanding by Design in which teachers write assessments for their unit.
What is Stage 2?
300
The component of the Danielson Framework described in the vignette below.
"Mrs. Blake uses formative assessments to guide decisions she makes with her students"
What is "Designing Student Assessments"?
300
The part of curriculum used to design lessons. They are open-ended and facilitate critical thinking.
What are Essential Questions?
400
A type of curriculum in which students have a good deal of control, yet basic content knowledge is the primary focus.
What is student-determined enrichment?
400
The facet of understanding displayed in the following vignette:
Students are asked to summarize the water cycle in a paragraph after viewing a three minute video clip.
What is Explanation?
400
The sin of curriculum design identified in the vignette below. "Ms. Bower asks her students to make shoebox dioramas of Indian villages"
Hands-on without being minds-on.
400
The component of the Danielson Framework described in the vignette below.
"Mr. Kincaid creates learning activities that utilize educational technologies like smartphones and tablet computers"
What is "Demonstrating Knowledge of Resources"?
400
These are broad understandings created during unit planning.
What is are big ideas?
500
A type of curriculum in which students have a good deal of control over what is taught, yet, the focus is on basic content and recall.
What is the organic curriculum?
500
The facet of understanding displayed in the following vignette: Students learn the formula for finding the area of a rectangle and use it to find the area of a variety of square shaped objects found throughout the school. Which of Wiggins' and McTighe's elements of understanding is being assessed?
What is application?
500
The sin of curriculum design identified in the vignette. Mr. Halpert addresses the final five chapters of his book by having his students complete question packets during the last two weeks of school.
What is coverage?
500
The component of the Danielson Framework described in the vignette below.
"Mr. Jones frequently reads ahead in a college science textbook to make sure the content he teaches in class is correct"
What is "Knowledge of Content"?
500
This is the website that organizes and shares all of Pennsylvania's state standards and curriculum documents.