The Curriculum module is designed to help the classroom teacher of Reading, Language, Math, Science or Social Studies become more familiar with the MISIC standards and benchmarks as well as working toward ensuring a guaranteed curriculum.

This module consists of three parts:

-MISIC and Local Crosswalk

-MISIC and Local Mapping

-Scope and Sequence

Within the module, there are multiple activities, some of which are designed for teachers just joining MISIC and seeing the standards for the first time and others are designed for those who wish to increase the knowledge they have about the MISIC core curriculum.

You may print, save or alter any of the attachments to meet your local needs. Ideally, each activity should be completed collaboratively with a grade level or department team.

Here are some guiding questions for teams working on the curriculum modules:

-Who else should know what you are learning, how will you tell them?

-How will changes you make impact curriculum, instruction and assessment?

-What did you apply as a result of your new learning?

-How do you create a system that supports a guaranteed curriculum?

-What good is a system that creates or maintains a guaranteed curriculum?

-How will we deal with benchmarks not in “perfect” alignment?

-How do we know we’re teaching a benchmarks at the appropriate cognitive complexity?

-Will we change entirely to the MISIC standards and benchmarks, or will we create a new document merging both?

-When indicators or descriptors are the same for two grades, how will we choose to react to this?

-Are there any gaps in curriculum that became apparent when looking at units and descriptors?

-What will we do to fix the problems that have arisen?