Transcript Pacing Guides PowerPoint

Planning Instruction with VoCATS:
Developing and Using Pacing
Guides
Objectives
 Analyze
the value of using
pacing guides as an
instructional management
tool.
 Construct a pacing guide
for a CTE course.
Pacing Guides
Also known as:
 Annual
plan
 Syllabus
 Curriculum alignment guide
 Others?
Standards-based Education Is…
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Instruction designed to help students
meet a standard.
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For example:
A nurse takes a test to become an RN
 An accountant takes an exam to
become a CPA
 Your students take a VoCATS test
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They all must meet a standard.
Effects of Standards-Based Education and Pacing
Guides
Improve student performance
 School-to-school continuity
 Foster greater involvement of support areas
 Improve instructional decision-making
 Highlight opportunities for integration
 Reduce the achievement gap
 Provide alignment of state and national
standards
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Who Should Create Pacing Guides?
 All
teachers in your
school (or LEA) who
teach the same
curriculum. (courses)
What Materials are 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 your school who teach
the same course should collaborate
on the development of the pacing
guide.
 Guides should be submitted to an
administrator (department chair,
director, team leader) for review.
How Should Pacing Guides be Used?
 Share
with all appropriate
partners (i.e. special needs
teachers, ESL teachers, core
teachers, art, music, PE,
library/media, etc.) who are
asked to provide support.
What Should Pacing Guides Contain?
 Competencies
and objectives
 Rule: The more detail, the better;
but, detail takes time
 Include content and implementation
notes
 Pacing guides allow for curriculum
alignment
Implementation/Alignment Notes
 Materials
 Field
to be ordered in advance
trips
 Volunteers needed (speakers)
 Media required
 Collaboration (integrated content)
 Others?
Pacing Guide Considerations
 Who
is the “audience” for the pacing
guide?
 Could some units be interdisciplinary?
 In what order should the units be
taught?
 How can previously taught objectives
be reviewed within current units?
Pacing Guide Considerations
 Should
review time be provided
prior to the test?
 What accommodations should be
made for the “slow learner” or
“gifted learner?”
 Who will receive pacing guides?
FIRST – Determine Possible Columns
 Resources
 Video,
computer lab, field trip, guest
speaker, etc.
 No
Child Left Behind Activities
 Reading,
Writing or Math
 May choose local initiative/priority
 Performance
 Assigned
or Product
comprehensive unit project
Considerations –
Before you Begin….
 First
year – keep it simple
 What
are the MOST important
things?
 Do
teachers need a
“technobuddy?”
 Data – and keeping score
Steps in Creating an Electronic Pacing Guide
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Open your course blueprint in Word.
Select and copy the columns you want
to include on your pacing guide.
Open Excel.
Paste what you copied from the
blueprint.
Wow!
Steps in Creating an Electronic Pacing Guide
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Label the additional columns you will be
using.
Add in “Assessment”
Format the document to your liking
If you prefer, you can open it and work
with it in Word
Evaluation
 Will
you create and use one or
more pacing guides this year?
 How?
 Why?