What we
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LEARN
becomes a part of
who we
ARE!
MathOur curriculum for math is called Math in Focus. Math in Focus is a authentic Singapore Math curriculum with problem solving as the center of math learning and concepts taught with a concrete-pictorial-abstract learning progression through real-world, hands-on exercises.
Writing
Our curriculum for Writing is called Teachers College Writing Program. Our work with writing begins with a commitment to structuring schools so that students have time to write. Students work as professional authors do, cycling through the stages of the writing process and receiving feedback that is essential to growth, and they write, too, as a tool for learning across the curriculum. During the writing workshop, students are invited to live, work and learn as writers. They observe their lives and the world around them while collecting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing well-crafted narrative and expository texts. Students receive direct instruction in a minilesson, during which the teacher explicitly names a skill proficient writers use that is within reach for most of the class, then demonstrates the skill and provides students with a brief interval of guided practice using it. Students then have time to write, applying the repertoire of skills and strategies they’ve learned, while receiving feedback through one-to-one conferences and small group instruction designed to move them along trajectories of development.
Reading
Our curriculum for Writing is called Teachers College Writing Program. We begin the year with by assessing students to learn the level of text complexity (on an A-Z scale) that each child can handle and then channeling kids towards texts they can read. Students select a stack of books to keep close on hand in book bins or baggies, so they can easily move from one book to another. Students are instructed to read both in school and at home. We support explicit instruction in the skills and strategies of proficient reading, following the gradual release of responsibility model. Our work in reading, like our work in writing, is grounded in research on evidenced-based teaching. Readers make their thinking about texts visible by talking and writing about texts. Teachers study what readers do, and consider goals that are within reach yet rigorous. Through feedback, teachers give readers an understanding of the progress they have made, and name important goals and work they can do to become more proficient.
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Word StudyOur curriculum for Word Study is called Words Their Way. Words Their Way is a developmental spelling, phonics, and vocabulary program.
WTW is an approach to spelling and word knowledge that is based on extensive research literature and in- cludes stages of development and in- structional levels that are critical to the way students learn to read. A word study program allows teachers to provide differentiated efficient, effective instruction in phonics, spelling, and vocabulary. See document below for more information.
Social Studies
We follow the NYC Social Studies Scope and Sequence. The NYC Social Studies Scope and Sequence is the study of history, geography, economics, government and civics is the study of humanity, of people and events that have individually and collectively shaped our nation and the world. A strong and effective social studies program helps students make sense of the world in which they live, allows them to make connections between major ideas and their own lives, and it helps them see themselves as active members of a global community. While knowledge of content is very important, it is equally important to engage our students in historical thinking. Students engaged
and challenged to think like historians, raise questions, think critically, consider many perspectives and gather evidence in support of their interpretations as they draw upon chronological thinking, historical comprehension, historical analysis and interpretation, historical research, and decision-making. These are the skills that will serve them well as participating citizens of a democracy. See document below for more information. |
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Science
We follow the NYC Science Scope and Sequence.
NYC Science Scope and Sequence is a strong science program that helps students make sense of the physical world around them, it can explain the how and why things work, like complex systems, from the human body to our planet Earth. In our science classrooms, students can develop an understanding of the inter-dependency of living things as well as a respect for nature. See document below for more information.
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