Curriculum Plan Reflection

Creating this curriculum plan was by far the most challenging project of the semester. However, it was also the most beneficial to my learning as a future teacher and brought to light a lot of personal strengths and weaknesses I had not noticed before. When our group started the curriculum plan we were extremely overwhelmed. Once we really began looking through different activities and projects that we wanted to include for each grade level, however, things started to progress a lot more. We were really able to get into the standards for our 3 grade levels and look at what things were repeating and what things were building off of each other from the previous years, and this led our group to some wonderful ideas about review activities for the start of each school year. Overall, working with this project was a good experience for our group and was especially helpful in getting us fully involved with the standards for grades 3-5.

Watching the other groups' curriculum plans was really great. It was tremendously obvious that our group was a little technologically challenged after watching how great everyone's videos were. One thing I did notice, though, was how it was somewhat difficult to really understand everyone's curriculum plans form just watching what they did in the video. We had to go back to Sakai and really look through the written plans to get the whole picture and see how it was connecting to the other grade levels. Once we did this, we could really connect a lot of the ideas from grades prior and after ours together and see how a lot of standards we building off of each other and how some were very redundant. Once again, this was a great experience to see how the standards were fully worked in to the other grade levels that we did not focus on.