Fay School | Academics | Curriculum

Content, Skills, and Assessment

Fay School's faculty has committed to a four year curriculum review cycle to ensure that a student's experiences, moving from grades 1-9, and from class to class during a given year, are at their optimum. This process, in its sixth year, was launched at the start of the 2003/04 school year with a review of our skills curriculum, continuing in 2004/05 with the review of the content of our curriculum, and culminating in 2005/06 with a review of the methods of assessment. In 2006/07, each academic department focused on implementing something they had learned over the course of the prior three years of curriculum review In 2007/08, department chairs started the cycle again by leading a review of the skills taught by the members of their academic departments.

Using almost 9,000 months of curriculum maps (an initiative started in 2002), various standards documents, department and team meetings, and rubrics created in-house, this process has yielded greater dialog between grade levels, enhanced work between and within academic departments, and provided the means to fine-tune Fay's curriculum.