GT+4+and+GT+5


 * GT Mathematics Grade 4 || 2012-13 Proposed Grade 4 GT Essential Curriculum [[file:math_gr4gt_201213.docx]] ||
 * GT Mathematics Grade 5 || 2012-13 Proposed Grade 5 GT Essential Curriculum [[file:math_gr5gt_201213.docx]] ||
 * The Charge:**
 * Develop a minimum of 2 UDL lessons per domain per grade-level course (download lesson plan template: [[file:AccessibleMathLessonPlanV2.doc]])
 * Development of Essential Questions/Big Ideas
 * Develop a minimum of 2 disciplinary literacy samples (lessons or tasks) per domain per grade-level course
 * Develop a minimum of 2 worthwhile math tasks per domain per grade-level course (download task template: [[file:Math Task Template .doc]])
 * Develop resources to support the conceptual development of mathematical content (Identify existing resources and/or develop new resources)
 * Develop resources to address common misunderstandings by domain/content cluster (could be pencasts)
 * Link and reference any current pencasts/podcasts, professional development tools
 * Link to any NCTM sample lessons or disciplinary literacy samples (pending approval of resources)
 * Link to existing text resources ( Van de Walle, etc.) , as appropriate
 * Others?

After each date that you work writing curriculum for grades 4 or 5 GT mathematics, please provide the following information. This will help to document progress and manage budget allocations. //Thank you!//
 * [|Grades 4 and 5 GT Curriculum Writer's Log]**

MSDE's Common Core State Curriculum Unit Development Plan: PreK - High School Curricula'


 * Common Core Mathematics Resources and Initiatives**

[|Progressions Documents for Common Core Mathematics] (IME) The Common Core State Standards in mathematics were built on progressions: narrative documents describing the progression of a topic across a number of grade levels, informed both by research on children's cognitive development and by the logical structure of mathematics. These documents were spliced together and then sliced into grade level standards. From that point on the work focused on refining and revising the grade level standards. The early drafts of the progressions documents no longer correspond to the current state of the standards.

[|Illustrative Mathematics Project] The Illustrative Mathematics Project will provide guidance to states, assessment consortia, testing companies, and curriculum developers by illustrating the range and types of mathematical work that students will experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards, and by publishing other tools that support implementation of the standards.

[|Core Challenge] The Common Core Learning Community (Core Challenge) leverages the passion, knowledge, and expertise of educators to provide equitable access to high-quality curriculum resources for all students, parents, and teachers. Go to "Contribute" to view the existing Learning Objects. These might serve as good examples of conceptual lessons for helping address student conceptual (mis)understandings. The Core Challenge seeks to provide: open, equitable access by //all// community members, vendor and technology agnostic for our learning objects, support for common media formats for video, audio, pencasts and documents to facilitate universal access, creative Commons licensing model to ensure that content remains available to community members, and use of electronic publishing methodologies to allow for extensible publishing options in the future.

[|Common Core Toolbox] This site is a resource designed to support districts working to meet the challenge and the opportunity of the new standards. Here you will find tools and instructional materials that help you to better understand and to implement the CCSSM. The [|sample scope and sequence documents] are particularly helpful for anticipating the approximate number of instructional days needed to teach a topic.


 * Universal Design for Learning Resource**

HCPSS UDL Blog: http://udlhcpss.wordpress.com/

Interactive UDL Wheel: http://udlwheel.mdonlinegrants.org/

CAST Website: http://www.cast.org/udl/

Examples for UDL: http://www.udlcenter.org/implementation/examples

Algebra I Lesson: Exponential Functions

Grade 8 Lesson: Pythagorean Theorem


 * Curriculum Writing Style Guidelines**

APA Style Manual: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

HCPSS Curriculum Writers Handbook:

Copyright Guidelines for Admin:

Copyright Laws:

Teacher Copyright Chart: