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Pacing Guides . Pacing Guides. Annual Plan Syllabus Curriculum Alignment Guide Annual Teaching Calander. What do you expect to get from them?. Pacing guides can help you with planning. They can ensure that you cover the entire curriculum.
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Pacing Guides • Annual Plan • Syllabus • Curriculum Alignment Guide • Annual Teaching Calander
What do you expect to get from them? • Pacing guides can help you with planning. • They can ensure that you cover the entire curriculum. • They provide for the maximum OTL – Opportunity to Learn. • They allow you to set up a time frame for sharing resources with your peers.
Tell me more…. • Pacing guides improve student performance • They provide school-to-school continuity • Pacing guides foster greater involvement with support areas. • They improve your instructional decision-making. • They spotlight opportunities for integration.
Pacing Guides – vs – Standards-Based Education • Ensure that what students are taught is not determined by who their teacher is but rather by the standards to be taught • Reduce the achievement gap • Provide alignment of state and national standards • Pacing guides support high expectations
Materials needed to Create Pacing Guides? • Course blueprint • Curriculum guide • School calendar (with testing dates) • Blank pacing guide • Classroom item bank
How Should Pacing Guides be Created? • All teachers in the school who teach the same course should collaborate on the development of the pacing guide. • Guides should be submitted to an administrator (department chair or director) for review.
Steps in Creating an Electronic Pacing Guide • Open your course blueprint in MSWord. • Select and copy the columns you want to include on your pacing guide. • Open Excel. • Paste what you copied from the blueprint.
Steps in Creating an Electronic Pacing Guide, continued. • Label the additional columns you will be using. • Add an Assessment Column • Format the document anyway you like. • You may want to add color or shading for emphasis
Pacing Guides • Save your blank pacing guide before you begin to fill in the dates. (As long as the curriculum stays the same, you can work from this blank copy.) • Print your pacing guide to have it close at hand during planning time. • Remember to collaborate with your peers.
Good Luck! Happy Planning!