Curriculum Leader Application

1. Contact Information

First Name

Last Name

Certification

Email Address

Street Address

Apt/Suite/Office

City

State

Zip

Phone Number

2. Of the four need areas listed below for the next iteration of JEA curriculum work, which most interests you and why? (You can select multiple)

Differentiation: We will continue to focus on creating content for students with diverse needs, including special education, English language learners, gifted and talented and middle school students. Experience teaching diverse populations preferred. Modifications may include additions to existing lessons or creation of entirely new lessons.
Curriculum coaching: We would like to begin offering small-scale virtual coaching to help members integrate curriculum into their classrooms using Google Hangouts, email, and phone consultations. Curriculum leaders who want to coach will be trained during the summer to follow a specific coaching plan with a predetermined amount of contact time for each adviser they coach, ensuring the coaching meets specific outcomes but also is not overly burdensome. In offering coaching, we hope to help members use our curriculum to deepen and enhance classroom learning. Curriculum leaders who take on coaching will not be expected to provide coaching for classroom management or pedagogical methods; they will work one-on-one with teachers to identify lessons and resources within the curriculum to structure specific units or lessons based on the teacher's classroom context.
Resource development: We continue to need updated and expanded collections of student and professional samples for all types of media and content. Curriculum leaders may solicit examples, organize resource databases, and review existing curriculum for opportunities to include more robust exemplars.
Lesson revision and creation: Curriculum leaders will continue to fill holes in the curriculum by adding new lessons or revising existing ones.

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3. Please tell us about your experience with the areas of interest you described in question 2. What makes you qualified for these curriculum tasks? Please also speak to your experience with Wordpress. *This question is required.

4. Based on the job descriptions and expectations for this year's curriculum initiative (described in question 2), please outline 5 specific goals you would want to accomplish in your year as a curriculum leader. Your goals should reflect any combination of contributions you would like to make across the four need areas, and they should be as specific as possible (for example, if you'd like to work on differentiation, you should include goals that reference specific lessons or modules for which you'd like to create modifications). *This question is required.

Goal 1
Goal 2
Goal 3
Goal 4
Goal 5

5. Please write a third-person biography of approximately 200 words, including any honors, awards and affiliations relevant to the position you are applying for. *This question is required.

6. Supplementary material.

Curriculum leaders must have a solid understanding of what already exists in the JEA curriculum and areas for improvement.

To demonstrate this, please upload a document listing the titles and direct link (URL) of the 20 “must have” lessons from the JEA curriculum you would use in your own classrooms. This exercise will help you become more familiar with the curriculum as you apply to become a leader. Include the following information to demonstrate your familiarity with the curriculum.

Please arrange these lessons in the sequence you would use them. You can tailor this document to the kind of courses you teach (e.g. either a journalism class, publications class, yearbook class, etc.). The point of this document is to create a type of “scope and sequence” curriculum map that shows how you would connect the resources within the curriculum to a specific class setting and to help you become more familiar with all the curriculum areas.
Please indicate which of these lessons you feel are appropriate to different levels based on your experience (ELL, gifted and talented, special education, or middle), or which could be easily modified for different levels.
Please indicate which of these lessons could benefit from the addition of student examples or which need updated examples.

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Curriculum Leader Application - 2019