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This wiki offers a number of resources and links in the following areas: Digital Books (aka Blog Companions), Audio, Bookmarking, Charts/Graphs, Digital Art (painting/ drawing tools), Digital Storytelling, File Conversion, File Sharing, Photo Editing, Presentation/ Slideshow, Project Management, Search Engines, Social Networks, Survey, Timelines, WebQuests, Word Processing, Video/ Screencasting, and more.

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Essex County Vocational/Technical Schools

Office of Curriculum & Instruction     
                                          
 “A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest ... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.” 
 -Albert Einstein, (1879-1955)
 
 

A Vision of K-12 Students Today

Curriculum & Instruction
 
Mission
 
To work as a community to design and sustain a learning environment that promotes reflective inquiry, risk-taking, application, collaboration, evaluation, and opportunities for continuous growth and improvement. 
 
Guiding Principles
   
Learning should be engaging, relevant, challenging, and prepare students for life and work in the 21st century;
 
Similarly, professional development should be engaging, relevant, challenging, and prepare us for education in the 21st century;
 
As a learning community, life long learning should be consistently modeled by all;
 
Continuous improvement is encouraged, nurtured, and sustained;
 
Instructional Improvement Plan
 
Curriculular Design will follow the Understanding by Design (UbD) model, using a backwards approach that identifies the goals and objectives as a precursor  and ultimately uses these as the building blocks in the design of the units, assessments, and activities that will be used to facilitate the learning and check understanding.
 
Goals -> Curriculum -> Units -> Lessons -> Assessments -> Activities
 
Technology will serve as an educational tool through which critical information seekers will learn, communicate, interact, gather information, contribute, achieve, and create "classrooms and schools without walls/boundaries."
 
Lesson Planning will focus on those tenets inherent in effective instructional design and delivery, including clear learning goals (Students will Know...Students will be able to...), Relevance, Quality of Assesments and Activities, and Reflective Inquiry.
 
Pre-Observation form will allow educators the opportunity to provide the evaluator with information about the "off-stage" variables found in Domain 1 and Domain 4 not always visible during the observation process, including but not limited to knowldege of student needs and participation in professional development or other related school activities.
 
Assessments should provide students the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding through the process of evaluation, synthesis, and analysis.  Whether formative or summative, these should also, when possible, be problem-based and authentic.
 
Individual Professional Development Plans will allow educators to formulate annual goals based on district/school goals, teaching assignments, evaluations, self-assessments and/or peer- assessments.  (For administrators, Professional Growth Plans will be used)
 
Professional Development opportunities will be continuous and encouraged in all aspects of teaching and learning, including faculty/departmental meetings, in-service workshops, collaborative projects, work with consultants, attendance at conferences, studies abroad, enrollment in college level course (on-site or online), etc.
 
 
  

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Michael A. Pennella, PhD
ECVTS Superintendent
 
 
  
 
This site provides educators with resources and  information about state-assesments, professional development opportunities, online PD, digital libraries, conferences, Web 2.0 tutorials, etc.
 
 
Through this site you will have access to a  number of resources/services including professional development opportunities, onsite customized training and presentations, technical assistance and support, software previews and demonstrations, and online resources. 
 
 
This document presents a vision for 21st century student outcomes (a blending of content knowledge, specific skills, expertise and literacies) and some ideas that help to produce these outcomes.
 
 
This wiki provides educators with the opportunitiy to present and share a number of curricular resources.  This interactive site offers various tools and services to assist eduators in the major disciplines develop lessons that are dynamic, interdisciplinary, and integrate technology. 

 

 

Hear for yourself what Grant Wiggins has to say about authentic education and how we can design curriculum that explores and addresses the “Big Ideas.”  On this site you will find various videos that address the NJ Standards Clarification Project and the Understanding by Design Model (Enduring Understandings, Essential Questions, etc.).

 
 
Mission: To "provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.

 

 
The Educator's Youtube! This site offers a number of resources for educators including videos, documents, audio clips, photos, clip art, educational channels, blogs, etc. (see also SchoolTube)
 
 
The Center for Applied Linguistics offers an array of resources in Sheltered Instruction.  The SIOP model provides content area educators ways to differentiate instruction for English Language Learners.
 
 
Sponsored through CAST, this site provides educators with various resources to better serve students with learning disabilities, language barriers, emotional and/or behavioral problems, sensory and physical disabilities, and much more.
 
 
This interactive site "contains a deep archive of continually updated best practices" and resources for educators that include practical hands-on advice, real-world examples, lively contributions from practitioners, and invaluable tips and tools.
 
Wonderful site for CTE teachers and teachers of other disciplines.  Here you will find a number of links that provide cosmetology quizzes, business ethics resources, auto safety and technology guides, and other resources for the academic areas. 
This non-profit organization  mission's to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide.  using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook" to provide educators with digital books for free. 
On this site you will find a repository of teaching and learning resources from federal agencies, including animations, primary documents, photos, and videos.  Content areas: Arts & Music, Social Studies, Mathematics, Language Arts, Health & Physical Ed, and Science.
Verizon Thinkfinity offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources for all grade levels and disciplines. This easy to navigate web page offers educators a number of resources that are aligned with state standards.
 

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