Purposeful planning is something that we have been encouraging our teachers to do, making sure they know where they are headed with their instruction and why they are heading that way. To support that effort, I created a planning chart for our Kindergarten teachers to use. At the beginning of the third quarter, one teacher had approached me with the concern of pacing out the next quarter's standards per the district report card.
Hearing her concern, I sought support from another district IC who focuses on the primary grades. Through that conversation, I determined the use of an organizer would benefit us in planning math standards and instructional pacing.
For the first planning event, we laid out all the major standards that would introduced to students in the third quarter, paced out by the report card. Then we used the Investigations guide to determine which units have/will hit on those standards. Next, we determined at what level of mastery the standards were taught using Investigation and what, if any, additional instruction or resources needed to be pulled to meet the standard and fine-tune instruction for the students' sake.
We repeated this same process for the last quarter of the school year. More teachers took part in the process the second time around. There was more ownership and awareness due to such purposeful planning. It is my goal to continue such planning into the next school year so teachers continue to know where they are headed, why they are headed that way, and how/what instruction and supports will be utilized.
Kindergarten Math Plan
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