Curriculum Mapping

[Tricia Fickiesen]

Good morning!

As we wrap up our school year we have been asked to use the 4 days we are making up without students to do some detailed curriculum mapping.  I usually spend time each summer rearranging things based off of my reflections from the year before so I appreciate the paid time to work on it now.  The district is teaming up with their content areas to do this but I am a department of one.  I teach Spanish 1-4 and I do not use a textbook (although we previously used Realidades so I had been pulling units from that in Spanish 1 & 2 still as resources while I continue to phase it out.)  Next year I will have class sets of the novels Piratas del caribe y el mapa secreto, Felipe Alou, & Frida Kahlo.  I also have Pobre Ana.

My question for you all is.... are you willing to share some of your curriculum maps or ideas?  I don't mind maps from other languages as well if it helps me see some pacing ideas.  My Spanish 4 students will be sitting in with Spanish 3 students so this year I believe they are going to do some similar units since the novels are a new resource.  I already use CI here and there but intend to use it as my main method of teaching next year.  I am familiar with the SOMOS curriculum and have a few units from it but do not have the funds to purchase it.  I also know about the Ohio Model Curriculum and intend to base my non-novel stuff off of that.  Our class periods are 50 minutes long.

Let me know if you have any other questions that can help you give me some advice!  I look forward to hearing from all of you, especially if you use novels like these.  I am nervous to make a curriculum map with them and not having experience with them...I have no idea how long it takes to get through them!

Thank you in advance to those who take the time to respond on the brink of summer vacation 🏖

Tricia Fickiesen
South Central High School

Greenwich, Ohio

[Ella Campos]

I too have to work on this. Would you be willing to report back to all of us when you get some ideas?

Thanks.

Ella

[Robin Boling]

Hi, Tricia,

I'm in this planning mode as well! Here are some links I have been visiting for ideas:

1. Allison Wienhold teaches with novels and blocks off her curriculum in a spreadsheet.  Her plan for next year should be coming out soon.  http://misclaseslocas.blogspot.com/2017/06/curriculum-year-6-teaching-spanish-with.html
2. This plan has one theme per quarter: http://www.nhps.net/sites/default/files/World_Languages_Curriculum_Map_Grades_6-Level_IV.pdf
3. Carrie Toth, Spanish 1-4 with novels: https://somewheretoshare.com/2018/04/29/scope-and-sequence-for-levels-1-4/
4. New Haven Public Schools (click on levels listed on left side) http://www.nhps.net/node/1374
5. Unit overviews from Jefferson County Public Schools: from https://spinternal.jefferson.kyschools.us/gheenswebsite/Public%20Documents%20%20World%20Languages/Forms/World%20Language%20High%20Curriculum%20Maps.aspx#InplviewHash26a62400-6c14-4c40-90a3-5865c6f82344=Paged%3DTRUE-p_SortBehavior%3D0-p_FileLeafRef%3DJCPS%2520Latin%2520Standards%252epdf-p_ID%3D5-PageFirstRow%3D31

Suerte!

[Amy Haney]

Hello, Tricia.

Here are some links for resources you may find useful.  If you click on the curriculum map, you can download it for free.  This curriculum map outlines all of the culture that we teach in all levels from one to Spanish 4 AP.

http://sparkenthusiasm.com/ap_spanish_thematic_vocabulary_units.html

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/AP-Spanish-IB-Spanish-Culture-Curriculum-Map-for-All-Levels-2723985

Please email me if you want to share some ideas or collaborate as I am revamping many of my lessons this summer as well to teach more thematically.

Happy summer!

Amy Haney

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Amy Haney

[m_b...@marlingtonlocal.org]

How nice that you get paid time to do this! I have been in 2 different districts, the first of which I was the only Spanish teacher, but had a French colleague (started with 1-4, ended up teaching grades 4-12) and currently am at a slightly larger district teaching 2-5, with another Spanish teacher teaching 1-2 and another who teaches 1-2 Spanish 1's at our middle school. So, I feel your pain being alone and not knowing where to start-I also didn't have textbooks at my first school, fresh out of college, and just had to dive in. Honestly, I prefer not being tied to the textbook, but at my current school we use the text Avancemos in 1 and 2 to help us all stay aligned, then I can break away in 3-5. We have 1 novel per level, and I tend to do them at the end. In 1, they used to do Pobre Ana, but have not the last year or two just because they felt they weren't getting the " important"  stuff in with enough time, and wanted to be sure the kids have a good base of grammar and vocab coming into 2. In 2, we do Esperanza (excellent book, by the way) and so it's their first time reading a whole novel in Spanish (the horror!) and we are very much together, reading in a big circle, pretty much every day. We go through it, they have a packet of questions to answer at the end of each chapter, and then we do a project on it and an IPA based on human rights for their final exam. In Spanish 3, we do Calaca Alegre, and they also have questions to work with, and an IPA on some mental health issues. I love how much confidence it gives my kids, and would love to start the year with a novel, as well, but $$ doesn't permit me to do this, so I keep it at the end because of all of the field trips and disruptions, it's something they can easily do on their own when they miss class.

As for whole curriculum maps, we do not use CI, but I am happy to walk you through what my levels (2-5) are doing, what I would change if I could, and what I have done in the past if you are interested. I'll lay out the verb tenses covered here, and if you'd like more info, you're welcome to email me and I can tell you whatever you'd like!

Sp 1-present

Sp 2- pret and imp, pres progressive, commands (Ud, tu, Uds)

Sp 3- All others

Sp 4 (CCP)- reviews Pret/imp, future, conditional, subjunctive (pres and imp)

Sp 5- reviews as requested by students, but is more lit/history based instead of grammar

:) Hope that helps a little...let me know if you want more details!

Megan Brady

On Friday, May 25, 2018 at 8:00:35 AM UTC-4, Tricia Fickiesen wrote:

[Tricia Fickiesen]

Here is a document of helpful links I have compiled from responses so far and some of my favorite finds.  Thanks to those who contributed!

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 7:38 AM, Tricia Fickiesen <tfick...@south-central.org> wrote: