Friday, March 1, 2013

Essential Outcomes - Simplified

For the sake of my students' sanity and my own, I simplified the grade 11 ELA outcomes into a few words (even more simplified than I originally had done).

The good thing about the simple outcomes and the numbers: my students use the numbers, and they're easy to keep track of. They are also the numbers the Department of Education uses.

The down side about the simplicity of the outcomes: they can appear vague, and don't necessarily inspire a lot of creativity.

Here they are:


Below, you can see how I simplified the entire ELA curriculum and sorted the essential outcomes for students by grade.