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= =   Chicago Public Schools’ Curriculum Alignment Project Illinois State Standards/Montessori The following project is collaboration between Drummond, Oscar Mayer and Suder Montessori Schools. These three schools are partnered together in bringing Chicago Public School students an alternative to traditional education practices. Our schools are committed to the practices that were developed over 100 years ago by Dr. Maria Montessori, an Italian philosopher who was and remains far beyond her times. Montessori, in short, believed that each of us holds the natural interest and curiosity to learn through our own inquiry and that if we are inspired by works and materials that fascinate our own desires to learn, we will indeed propel ourselves toward a greater depth of understand and involvement in our own education. Our three schools are creating this document to allow our teachers, who are both state certified as well as Montessori certified a tool to better understand the overlapping of both curriculum pieces. Though Montessori in general tends to exceed Illinois state standards, we believe this tool will be useful in addressing the scope and sequence of the many hundreds of “works” that go into creating a Montessori classroom. Additionally, because Montessori is an educational practice that is far more tailored to individual learning, this alignment project will provide our teachers a road map in addressing each students’ particular needs. Dr. Montessori believed in building communities of learners and in following that practice, we encourage other educators to look at and borrow and lend freely to this document. Just as Montessori believed education was not meant to remain stagnate, we hope that this document too will consistently evolve, therefore we have purposely created a space for educators to share their own works and materials and a place to post lesson plans, photos and videos that will assist each of us in our own learning communities. We are grateful and indebted to the following educators who have collaborated on this project: __ Drummond Oscar Mayer Suder __ Joy Jovanovic Barbara Baldini Erica Baker Mary Wheatley Crystal Maria-Luisa Gonzalez With Sincere Appreciation, Mark Neidlinger Katie Konieczny Stephanie Bloom Drummond Oscar Mayer Suder = = = = =Montessori Curriclum Alignment to Illinois State Learning Standards=



Our goal: align Montessori works with Illinois state standards; identify deficits where standards are not being taught with Montessori materials (identify ways to teach to the standard with Montessori works OR what additional materials need to be added); and to identify gradlevels by which students should master a given benchmark (and possibly when they should be introduced).

Examples, forms, and templates from other public Montessori schools across the country.
Language Arts and Math standards alignments from Colorado.

Curriculum scope and sequence

Montessori curriculum EL1 aligned to power standards.

Assessment rubric with Ohio state standards

Analysis of curriculum alignemnet Wisconsin charter schools.

Alignments of works to the Wisconsin state standards.

Matxix of when to present works and rubrics.

**Public Montessori Assessment**
http://www.montessori-namta.org/NAMTA/administrators/assess.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4097/is_200407/ai_n9456113

http://www.montessoriinredlands.org/outcomes/assessment/index.shtml

http://www.montessoriresources.com/

http://www.jola-montessori.com/psm/77/articles/denison.html Denver Public school designs own assessment.

http://www.montessori.org/story.php?id=121 AMS position paper learning and assessment

http://www.montessori.org/story.php?id=27

http://www.montessori.org/story.php?id=279