TWIG CURRICULUM PILOT REVEW

Teacher Leader Standards

TWIG CURRICULUM Domain IV: Serves as a team leader to harness the skills, expertise, and
knowledge of colleagues to address curricular expectations and student learning
PILOT REVIEW needs.

Presented to Staff at CCS

By Ye Esther Yi
April 19, 2023

Up and Coming NEW science curriculum!

2nd- Habitats and BIodiversity

Piloted by 5th- Yellowstone: Uncovered

2nd, 5th, and 7th 7th- Dinosaur Trails

Student Survey & Comments

Many positive responses - general consensus of “fun” Now you try…

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SgMkZDXk9jz7l8E_nlFq1I3ZwXzd6wRDhXfc
wTjqBO0/edit#responses
Take a look at the student
Mixed negative responses - slow, too much writing, confusing if absent one day,
book was boring, too long, etc
books

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Student Work Samples Student Work Samples

2nd Grade - Habitats & Biodiversity

Teacher survey-content/rigor Teacher survey-useability

Materials up-to-date and attractive? ✔✔✔ Add comments here:

Lesson/activities easy for youth to Known for their videos by other teachers Poor Fair Good Very good Excellent
understand? ✔✔✔
Easy to lead and teach? ✔✔ ✔
Did it provide a way for youth to learn by Online dashboard ✔✔✔
doing? ✔-, ✔-,✔-
Quality of lab and lab materials ✔✔✔
Fun way to learn? ✔-, ✔-,✔-
Interactive lab/activities ✔✔✔
Will youth be able to use what they learned?
Enough resources? ✔✔ ✔
✔✔✔
Differentiated resources? ✔✔ ✔
Enough depth?

Observations
No mention of Twig from EdReports
- Educator Led Review Teams
-Students need more discussion skills https://www.edreports.org/reports/
science
-Twig requires good classroom management skills
Independent Common Sense Education says of
-Its depth only goes as far as the teacher is willing to take it and will need
additional resources. Uses too much time and energy to drive one single point. Ratings the video subscription, cool videos,
not enough depth
-student centered instruction (more work from the student) https://www.commonsense.org/ed
ucation/reviews/twig

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https://curriculumsupport.org/

Curriculum
https://curriculumsupport.org/wp-c Any questions about TWIG or how
Piloting ontent/uploads/2019/02/Instructio Open Discussion it’s been implemented in the pilot?
nPartners-Workbook.pdf
Programs Any other questions?

(extra resources)

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