Well, it’s summer time, and
that means our focus on curriculum for next year is in full swing in many
schools and districts. And, with the CCSS Standards for each grade level and
course in Mathematics and ELA only one year away from full implementation, many
school districts are trying to understand what exactly needs to be the
“Curriculum” that will respond to those standards.
The CCSS for Mathematics
provides the vision for what students should know and be able to do at the completion of each grade level in
elementary school and lower middle school, and at the end of each course in
upper middle school and high school mathematics.
In the PLC culture we refer
to this as the Guaranteed and Viable curriculum.
At the school district
level, trying to place the best features of the CCSS for Mathematics – focus,
rigor and coherence (through the progressions of standards) is quite the
challenge.
The good news is that the mathematics
“Curriculum” at every grade level has the potential of not being so book
dependent as in the past.
The bad news is that the
mathematics “Curriculum” at every grade level has the potential of not being so
book dependent as in the past.
Meaning? Every state and
district committed to the Common Core needs to reverse past practice. Rather
than the book or textbook program becoming the “Curriculum”, the CCSS M gives
us a chance for the book or textbook (whether digital or not), to be used as one aspect of a well designed and thought out locally designed “Curriculum”. Thus the book is important and should ensure coherence, rigor, and focus of the CCSS Content Standard Clusters, but it is not as important as the on-going professional development and continuous knowledge capacity growth of the teacher and teacher team. It is the teacher and teacher team that makes the curriculum come to life!
One of the more positive
features of the CCSS K-12 mathematics standards is the theme built on focus - less is more - fewer standards and more
time to teach them deeply at every grade level. As your collaborative teams
begin the work of unpacking the content standards in 2013-2014 this feature
will be revealed. The CCSS translates to
about a one-third to one-half reduction from the number of traditional state
standards - depending on how the CCSS curricular frameworks unfold for your
state or district.
Many of the CCSS standards
also require students, led by their teachers, to develop rigor - more
complex reasoning skills. The
grain size of a unit of instruction is no longer the traditional “one
standard – one lesson” per day pace. The CCSS requires your collaborative teams
to shift well beyond 90+ discrete “bodies of knowledge” for a grade level or
course in a given year to a bigger “chunk” or body of knowledge aimed more at
the “cluster of standards” level – the “big ideas” of mathematics for that
grade level.
With the CCSS, the idea is to zoom out a bit and think of a grain size
of learning built upon a complete unit or chapter of study consisting of a
cluster of 4-6 standards lasting three to four weeks. A “unit” now refers to a period of instructional
time, not necessarily a discrete unit of mathematics content, as has
traditionally been the case. This is because the mathematics domains of the
CCSS are connected and integrated in meaningful ways. And the Mathematical
Practices are the glue that pull them together.
To help find this middle
ground between the CCSS Standards Vs. A defined textbook “Curriculum”, and with
the help of several colleagues - most notably Gretchen Mueller, Jessica
McIntyre, Gwen Zimmermann, Juli Dixon, and recommendations from the Dana Center - we provide one possible scenario that
helps to cluster each of the grade level standards into a course.
In this blog I present a
scope and sequence for each grade level K-8 that might be of use in your
mathematics “Curriculum” work over the next 2 years. It worked well to facilitate the hard work done by District 54 in Schaumburg, Illinois. It is only one suggestion
and a resource as your local district and school teams wrestle with what to do.
I hope they help. I also
hope you are having a good summer!
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