Sasha from theautismhelper.com shows how to organize a leveled curriculum with three instructional levels. Students get binders with tabs for language arts and math containing pre-tests, worksheets, and unit materials. Teachers keep separate binders for curriculum maps, daily lesson plans, and data sheets to track performance.
Hi, this is Sasha from theautismhelper.com, and I want to share today how I set up my daily leveled curriculum for both language arts and math. This has been a huge, huge time saver for me as far as my planning because my language arts and math curriculum is planned for the whole year. It takes a little bit of time to get set up, and I'm kind of in the swing of it now, so I'm excited to share exactly how we're utilizing it. So I use all 3 levels with my different groups of students, so I kind of organize my board by those levels. So I have my level 1 guys, I have their anchor charts right here labeled math and language arts. I put all the anchor charts right in a page protector so when we switch units I'm not looking all over for the other one. I have it right behind there and then also as we progress through the units we can always reference the earlier anchor charts as we need. So here's my level 1 anchor charts. I have my level 2 anchor charts for the group that do these ones and then my level 3 anchor charts over here. My school also likes having all the classrooms have kind of their monthly and daily goals, so this works really well. I can write their monthly goal based on which unit they're on right above, so it kind of fits in with what my school wants me to do as well. So all of the anchor charts are set up there. Each kid has their own binder. In the binder, I've shared a video of this before, they have a tab for language arts and for math, and they have all of their work right in here. So I put about 3 units in here, and then I photocopied all the other units for the whole year at the start of the year. It was a lot of paper, but it's all ready to go and I keep that all in the back. So I have units 1 through 3 in here, so as we go through these I can go get those other units as I need them. So all of their work, pretest, posttest, worksheets, is all right set up in here so we can reference the anchor charts and do one page a day. Um, as far as the paperwork that I need, I have a language arts and a math binder for myself. Um, in the language arts binder I keep all my curriculum maps, so if I ever need to show that to an administrator, it's all right here, exactly what we're working on. I have my daily lesson plans which show that I'm doing one page a day and what I'm working on. And then I also have all of the data sheets in here as well. So I take data on the work that the students are doing. I do it right in here. So that's not in the student binder, that's in my binder. So I have access to that. Math is set up the same way. The thing that I don't have in here, since I keep this with me every day throughout the morning and I don't want this to be massive, is I put all the assessments in a separate assessment binder. And I did— I do have a video of this that I'll link because I really like the way I set this up. I put each student, all of their pre- and post-tests, as well as their grading rubric in one page protector. So I can grab this really easy when we do the pre-test and when we do the post-test and add the scores right in. So, so far this has been going really, really well. I feel really organized with this and I feel like I know what we're doing and I know what I'm doing next, which in past years I haven't always felt like that. So this has so far been going really well and I think the setup has been pretty pretty easy, and it's easy to maintain. So again, this was a video tour of My Level Daily Curriculum by autismhelper.com.
