Action Plan

Stage 1 Desired Results

Established Goals:
To develop an integrated curriculum for the areas of Science Arts and
English, vertically, for the six grades of elementary education stage.
To connect contents, language and culture goals.
Understandings:
Essential Questions:
- In a bilingual school English
language is the tool of
How and why can an integrated
instruction so the linguistic
curriculum/thematic instruction be
contents should be included
more effective for language and
in the areas, Science and Arts. content learning?
- Teachers and assistants need
to work cooperatively and
very coordinated.
- Constant revision of planning
will be needed
- Content will be taught
together with language in a
experimental way (learning
by doing), so we create a
meaningful context for
students to use and
understand the language
What teachers need to Know:
- Teachers and assistants need to work cooperatively and very
coordinated.
- Constant revision of planning will be needed
- Teachers need to have identified the minimum standards of every
area and the connections among them
Stage 2 Assessment Evidence
1-What will count as evidence of our success?
Students will use English in a more proficience way.
Content will be expanded and better acquired
Results will improve
Students will be more motivated and eager to learn.
2-What baseline data should be collected?
- Previous year results.
- Teacher survey about their attitude towards the project and their organization skills
- Students and families survey about their satisfaction and motivation

- End of year results

Stage 3 Action Plan

Actions:
1st YEAR: During the first year of the implementation of this project we
need to design the new integrated/thematic syllabus
- 1st Meeting:
Teachers meeting to identify vertically the minimum standards for
every level and every of the three areas.
- 2nd Meeting:
Horizontal meetings (by grades) to organize the standards of
English and Arts around the Science contents.
- 3rd Meeting:
Vertical teachers meeting to sort out the Natural and Social Science
themes through the six years of elementary stage.
- Next Needed Meetings:
Collection and design of the different materials and resources.
- Evaluation and revision of all the work so far at the end of every
term
nd
2 YEAR
- Implementation of the new integrated/thematic syllabus .
- Assessment and evaluation of the outcomes and results