D185 Task 1 2/4/23 A. Write a proposal for designing a new curriculum. A.1. Discuss the educational setting.

The educational setting for my proposed curriculum is a 1st-grade classroom in a

metropolitan city in Tennessee. The school currently serves approximately 780 students from

Pre-K through 4th grade. In the educational setting, 100% of students qualify for free lunch and

85% of students are identified as English Language Learners. Literacy curriculums and

interventions take precedence in this school so the curriculum I am proposing is the UbD,

Understanding by Design, in math. This curriculum would be an extension of the current

curriculum, Illustrative Math, currently in use.

A.2. Identify a curricular goal to be achieved.

When implementing UbD in my math content alongside the current Illustrative Math

curriculum, my goal is to have my students transfer their understanding of content in more ways

than on paper, such as explaining their understanding in their own words or using their

knowledge to teach the concepts to a peer. In my classroom, 17 out of the 20 students are English

learners and 13 of those 17 are at an ‘entering’ or ‘developing’ (level 1 and 2) understanding of

the English language. For that reason, the goal of the UdB will align well with the needs of my

classroom because its design focuses on assessments that showcase student understanding using

a variety of applications and offer more opportunities for success among the varying academic

and language proficiencies within my classroom.