Curriculum Guide

Audience: Fifth-grade teachers and Success Teacher

By Kari Delaney
Date: March, 2020 1
Process & Accomplishments
Process Accomplishment
● Gather requirements for
curriculum guide outline
● Planning out the math
curriculum
● Creating the curriculum
guide
● Created a math
curriculum guide
● Learned why they are
important
● Learned most teachers
add/delete lessons
● Learned curriculum
guides are different
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Objectives: Teacher will develop a curriculum guide for Math.

Math Standards: Common Core

Teacher Leader Standards: Domain 1: Fostering a
Collaborative Culture to Support Educator 5.OA.A.1
Development and Student Learning b) Models 5.OA.A.2 5.NF.B.5b
5.NF.B.6
effective skills in listening, presenting ideas, leading 5.OA.B.3
5.NF.B.7
discussions, clarifying mediating, and identifying the 5.NBT.A.1 5.NF.B.7a
needs of self and others in order to advance shared 5.NBT.A.2 5.NF.B.7b
5.NBT.A.3 5.NF.B.7c
goals and professional learning.
5.NBT.A.3a 5.MD.A.1
5.NBT.A.3b 5.MD.B.2
NBPTS: Proposition 2: Teachers know the subjects 5.NBT.A.4 5.MD.C.3
they teach and how to teach those subjects to 5.MD.C.3a
5.NBT.B.5
5.MD.C.3b
students. 5.NBT.B.6 5.MD.C.4
5.NBT.B.7 5.MD.C.5
5.NF.A.1 5.MD.C.5a
5.NF.A.2 5.MD.C.5b
5.NF.B.3 5.MD.C.5c
5.NF.B.4 5.G.A.1
5.NF.B.4a 5.G.A.2
5.NF.B.4b 5.G.B.3
5.NF.B.5 5.G.B.4
5.NF.B.5a 3
Are curriculum guides important if students
change each year, and we need to meet
their needs?

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What is a Curriculum Guide?

● It is a guide that outlines materials needed to be

covered.

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Please discuss how beneficial are curriculum guides in
planning for the entire year?

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Benefits to Creating a Curriculum
Guide
Benefit # 1
● It helps create a school’s identity or persona.

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Benefit # 2

● It’s collaborative.

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Benefit # 3

● It lives with the school.

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Benefit # 4

● Time efficient.

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Benefit # 5

● Teacher Planning Sessions

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Now you discuss why you think curriculum guides are helpful
in daily lesson planning?

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Now you discuss if
you follow
curriculum guides
or enhance lessons
with outside
resources?
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Change Curriculum
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Knowing that students’ need change, how would
you go about writing a curriculum guide? What
curriculum would you want to make a curriculum
guide for and why?

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Did you learn anything
new about curriculum
guides, and why they are
important? Was the
format of the curriculum
guide I created easy to
follow?

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