1. Curriculum Redesign
How is it organized?

2. MPSD “Curriculum Connections”
Mission Public School District is in the process of creating a resource for the community to be able to connect with the redesigned curriculum in an accessible and user-friendly manner. Information is being embedded directly from the Ministry of Education and various partners’ recommended resources into one location, the “Curriculum Connections” Learning Commons.
Go to this website if you want to follow along:

3. Curriculum Redesign Directions
What are the new directions?
What will stay the same?
Increased flexibility and space for teacher innovation, student passions, and greater depth of study
“Big Ideas” for each grade in each area of learning
Explicit focus on competencies
Support for inquiry, project-based, hands-on, and interdisciplinary approaches
Aboriginal perspectives and content authentically integrated into all subjects
A common framework for all areas of learning
Rigorous learning standards in each area of learning
A strong focus on the foundations of reading, writing and mathematics
Subjects such as Math, Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies remain at the heart of every student’s education

4. Why Change?
To honour and respect Aboriginal ways of knowing and learning.

5. Education for the 21st Century Curriculum Model:
Why Change?
Education for the 21st Century
Curriculum Model:

6. BC’s Know-Do-Understand Curriculum Model:

7. What are the Big Ideas? Why Change?

8. What are the Curricular Competencies and Content?
Why Change?
What are the Curricular Competencies and Content?

9. What are the Core Competencies?
Why Change?
What are the Core Competencies?

10. Department Time Partial List of Suggestions for Department Sessions:
What IS the new curriculum? What’s changed?
What is the correlation between new curriculum and current resources?
Will we/can we offer new courses? What will they be? Who is passionate about teaching the new offerings? (Time sensitive).
What subject specific resources are available/desirable/required?
Dept. and/or individual exploration of website/s (government, district, resource websites)
Feedback to district for improvement of website.
Discussion of specific feedback suggestions and submission to government website.
(Individual submissions carry more weight.)
Ideas for infusing aboriginal content.
New lesson ideas? - afternoon session will give time address this

11. To go over the “why”, “what”, “where”?
Extra Thoughts
Today’s goals…
To go over the “why”, “what”, “where”?
Concerns and Feedback?

12. Feedback Please provide feedback to:
For MSS February Pro-D,
For curriculum feedback,
For the district website,

13. What are core competencies and how are they related to the curriculum?
Core competencies are a set of intellectual, personal and social competencies that students develop through the course of their schooling.
The core competency profiles represent a continuum of development from emerging to sophisticated levels. While the development process involved over 300 educators in 20 school districts, they are at an early stage of development
The competency profiles and illustrations are intended as classroom resources for teacher assessment and student self-assessment.
Core competencies are embedded in each area of learning and are activated through students’ learning experiences and activities.
Because core competencies are embedded in the structure of the curriculum, it is expected they will become a key part of future provincial assessments and ongoing assessment/reporting. How they will be made explicit in reporting and provincial assessment is still under discussion and development.

14. Why Change?
In today’s technology-enabled world, students have instant access to a limitless amount of information. For all students, the great value of education is in learning the skills to successfully locate, analyze, and apply the information they need in their work and personal lives after they graduate.
Experts from BC and around the world advise that curriculum should put more emphasis on concepts, competencies, and processes.
The existing curriculum can restrict student learning because it has so many objectives to cover. The highly prescriptive nature of the existing curriculum puts it at odds with the vision of a more personalized learning experience set out in BC’s Education Plan.