Curriculum Strategies - Muscogee County School District

MUSCOGEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT


Secondary Instructional Site

	Curriculum Strategies Classroom Materials and Resources Checklist for Implementation
	MCSD Framework of Initiatives			Marzano's Nine Essential Instructional Strategies
	Standards-Based Classroom	Rigor Through Critical Thinking Skills	Differentiated Instruction	Engaged Learners	On-site Support	Professional Learning Communities

Academic Information Assessment Academic Awards/Events AP Courses Classroom Management Content-Area Literacy Curriculum Mapping Curriculum Strategies Differentiated Instruction District Initiatives ESOL 6-12 Classrooms GAPSS Analysis GPS Training Materials Grants Instructional Units Math Sites Science Sites Science Fair Site Social Studies Sites Textbooks Vertical Teams Academic Information Assessment Academic Awards/Events AP Courses Classroom Management Content-Area Literacy Curriculum Mapping Curriculum Strategies District Initiatives ESOL 6-12 Classrooms GAPSS Analysis GPS Training Materials Grants Instructional Support Units Math Sites Science Sites Science Fair Site Social Studies Sites Textbooks Vertical Teams	What is Standards-Based Instruction?	How does data guide standards mastery? Data Use: Identify Student Needs * SALTs: MCSD middle schools are supported by School Assessment Lead Teachers (SALT). SALTs use the Muscogee Assessment Plan (MAP) tool to identify student needs. SALTs guide discussions by grade-level and departments to create Action Plans for improved student achievement. CRCT Content Weights CRCT Content Descriptions (scroll to bottom)
		How does feedback support standards mastery? Feedback: Informal assessments * Strategies 1. Flow chart management (example) 2. Provide Key and Marker for students' self-check 3. PowerPoints: timed with answer slides 4. Peer-to-Peer (partners) 5. Flip Chute: Instructions and Cover 6. Feedback Folders 7. Feedback Frogs 8. Feedback Punch-Cards 9. Ticket-Out-the-Door Feedback: Class Policies * Strategies 1. Take Two: Standards Mastery 2. Expect the Best 3. Steps to Mastery 4. No Zeros (Marzano's Essential Nine Instructional Strategies, #7)	Assessment Tools: Identification of Mastery * Strategies 1. Rubrics in the Classroom * Authentic Assessment Toolbox * NWREL's Toolkit98: Assessment and Feedback * Integrating Assessment and Instruction: Task and Teacher Commentary 2. Online Rubric Generators * Rubistar Rubric Generator * Teach-nology Rubric Generator * Kathy Schrock's Rubrics * Roobrix 3. Online Quiz Generators * Articulate Quizmaker- Free Trial * EastTestMaker * List of Assessment Tools 4. Feedback by .html * Feedback.com (Marzano's, #7) return to top of page
		Setting Student Goals: Students are motivated when they take ownership of learning. * Strategies 1. KWL Chart - Initially, create class charts. - Later, students personalize goals. 2. Goal Setting Chart 3. Reflections (Notebook ): Student-recorded goals 4. Student Checklist Template for Standards Mastery
	How is Rigor Attained Through Critical Thinking Skills?	Higher-Order Thinking * Strategies 1. Use action verbs noted in Bloom's document to design units and lesson plans. Bloom's Taxonomy and Verb List 2. Note the strategies indicated by Marzano's Nine on this page. 3. Performance Objectives, measurable indicators of mastery Rigor in the Classroom * Strategies 1. Marzano's, Classroom Instruction that Works 2. Assessing Academic Rigor in the Math Classroom 3. New Horizons for Learning Mentoring Minds Resources
	Differentiated Instruction	* Strategies for Gifted and Talented 1. 21st Century Skills * Life and Career Skills for gifted/talented * Critical Thinking Skills Math * Critical Thinking Skills Science 2. Using Exemplar Tasks * Edutopia, videos * Authentic Assessment Toolbox, click examples (left side of page) * NAEP, click search options button * Balanced Assessment, Harvard's College of Education * GaDOE Units and Tasks * SIS Math Sites, scroll to bottom of the page * SIS GPS Training, Day 3 3. Low-Prep and High Prep Strategies (Marzano's Essential Nine Instructional Strategies, #9)	* Strategies for Struggling Students 1. Graphic Organizers: * Education Oasis * Education Place Graphic Organizers: (List of .pdf files) * Enchanted Learning * EverythingESL * Examples in .pdf files * Freeology (includes Cornell Note Taker) * North Central Regional Education Laboratory: (Examples and Descriptions) * Scholastic: Reading * SCORE from California for Language Arts * TeacherVision: Graphic Organizers by Subject 2. Content-Area Literacy Instruction (CALI) * Word Walls - with graphics (Marzano’s Essential Nine, #5 Nonlinguistic) 3. Low-Prep and High Prep Strategies (Marzano's Essential Nine Instructional Strategies, #9)
		* Strategies for Organizing to Meet Different Student Needs 1. Organizing the Environment (management examples) 2. Notebook: rubric, assignment log (grades) 3. Collecting Productivity, maximizing instructional time 4. Summarize tasks or procedures in students own words and record in notebooks. (Marzano's, #2) 5. Model note taking for students using overhead notes for notebooks. (organized overhead) (Marzano's, #2) 6. Homework: Feedback through classroom key, classroom corrections, teacher's verbal commentary and notebook file. (add to assignment log ) (Marzano's, #4) Differentiated Instruction 1. Traditional Instruction vs Differentiated Instruction 2. Enhance Learning with Technology 3. Adjust Your Teaching Style 4. Strategies for Differentiating Instruction 5. Differentiated Instruction by Internet 4 Classrooms 6. Bloom's Taxonomy 7. Questioning Toolkit articles: 1. The Partnerships for 21st Century Skills 2. enGuage 21st Century Skills 3. Examples for implementing 21st Century Learning Skills (by disciplines) 4. Brain Research: Implications to Diverse Learners return to top of page
	Engaged Learners	* Strategies 1. Indicators of Engaged Learners * NCREL's Indicators of Engaged Learners: Table of Variables and Indicators * NCREL's Indicators of Engaged Learning: Descriptions * Indicators of Engaged Leaning: Quiz for Teachers * Classroom Checklist * NCREL Engaged Indicators: Assessment in Your Instruction 2. Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition (Marzano's, #3) * Reinforcing Effort with Tickets: Student form for Purchase Requests * Ticket-Out-The-Door: Instructions 3. Engaged Learning Environment What is a model engaged learning environment? * Video: Inside a standards-based middle school class * Seating Charts - Entering the Environment - Partners * Time-On-Task - Timers - Timed PowerPoint 4. Working On the Work (WOW) by P. Schlechty * Engaged Learner Correlated to WOW Standards 5. Marzano's Nine Essential Instructional Strategies return to top of page
	On-site Support	Curriculum Mapping Software: Rubicon Atlas * Strategies 1. Vocabulary Review for Curriculum Mapping Software 2. Training Manual used to support curriculum mapping software and review GPS 3. Search Rubicon Atlas for GPS Units, Rubrics, Graphic Organizers GAPSS Analysis 1. Support Site 2. Classroom Observation Form Checklists: * Strategies 1. Standards Checklist Template - (Design for selected standard or unit.) 2. Example - Standards Checklist 3. Student Checklist - (Design for selected standard or unit.) return to top of page
	Professional Learning Communities	Vertical Teams Articles: 1. National Staff Development Council: Learning Communities 2. Educational Leadership: Improving Relationships Within the Schoolhouse 3. Building Professional Learning Communities by Cathy Berlinger-Gustafson
	More Resources	Accommodations Non-readers Physical Impairments Sensory Impairments Attention/Behavior Gifted Direct links to general classroom accommodations specific for disability: Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Autism Deaf - Blind Deaf/Hard of Hearing Emotional and Behavioral Disorder Mathematics Strategies for Learning Disabilities Mild Intellectual Disability Orthopedic Impairment Significant Development Delay Specific Learning Disability Speech - Language Impairment Tourette Syndrome Traumatic Brain Injury Visual Impairment return to top of page