Instruction – Teaching and Learning
The purpose of the teaching and learning section on the MDK12 website is to provide information about what is being taught in the various subjects at various grade levels. Also, the instruction section provides resources to support the administrators, teachers, and parents/guardians with teaching the students the standards.
The recommended audience for this section is administrators, teachers, parents/guardians and even students. Anyone who has an interest in what the students are learning or wants to support the learning of the students should use this website.
The common core standards section contains the frameworks for the Common Core Curriculum for Language Arts and Mathematics. You can also access the current state curriculum for all subject areas. “The curriculum documents are formatted so that each begins with content standards or broad, measurable statements about what students should know and be able to do. Indicator statements provide the next level of specificity and begin to narrow the focus for teachers. Finally, the objectives provide teachers with very clear information about what specific learning should occur. “(MDK12.org) Within each subject area there is another access to the Common Core State Curriculum Frameworks. Also, you can access the state curriculum for prek to high school subject areas. The following is a sample of what you may see when accessing the state curriculum:
Standard 1.0 Knowledge of Algebra, Patterns, and Functions
Students will algebraically represent, model, analyze, or solve mathematical or real-world problems involving patterns or functional relationships.
Topic
A. Patterns and Functions
Indicator
Objectives
Assessment limit: Use 2, 5, 10, or 100 starting with any whole number (0 – 1000)
Assessment limit: Use 3 or 4 starting with 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 (0 - 30)
Assessment limit: Use 10 or 100 starting with any whole number (0 – 1000)
Indicator
Objectives
b. Seeds
d. PDF
Assessment limit: Start at the beginning, show at least 3 levels but no more than 5 levels, and ask for the next level
Assessment limit: Use no more than 4 objects in the core of the pattern
The standard can be viewed as the overall unit to be taught. Within the standards, there are various topics that will be taught. Under the topic, the indicator explains what the students will learn/do. The objectives explain how the students will meet the topic. The assessment limit explains up to what level the students are expected to perform the objective. The State Assessments will assess up to that limit. The following link provides a visual and oral explanation of how to read the state curriculum:
This should be used daily by school personnel to support instruction and ensure the students are being taught the proper objectives. Teachers can use the standards to create their lesson plans. Also, the standards and objectives can be used to create IEP goals for students who have Individualized Education Plans (IEPs)
Tool Kit provides tools to be used to support instruction in Reading
Some of the following tools are available throughout the tools as a resource to support the user:
State Curriculum Toolkit resources are embedded in the State Curriculum document at the objective level. Nine different types of tools are under development, although not all tools are currently available for every objective or content area.
Clarifications: Each clarification provides an explanation of an indicator/objective to help teachers better understand the skills and/or concepts.
Lesson Plans: The lesson plans have been juried by Maryland
Lesson Seeds: The lesson seeds are ideas for the indicator/objective that can be used to build a lesson. Lesson seeds are not meant to be all-inclusive, nor are they substitutes for instruction.
Sample Assessments: Each sample assessment item gives an idea of how an assessment item on the Maryland School Assessment (MSA) might be presented. The items appropriately measure the content of the State Curriculum and may be formatted similarly to those appearing on the MSA; however, these are sample items only and have not appeared on any MSA form.
Prerequisite Skills: The prerequisite skills describe what concepts a student needs to understand before working on this concept.
Higher Order Thinking Skills: The higher order thinking skills shows examples of questions for this concept at various levels of cognitive demand.
Technology: This tool suggests ways technology may be used to enhance the teaching of this concept.
Resources: This tool shows resource links to websites that offer instructional resources.
Public Release Item: Public Release items have appeared on MSA forms and then are released for public viewing and use. Releasing items is one step to ensuring that schools, districts, and other stakeholders understand how the content standards are assessed on the MSA.
(MDK12.org)
These tools can be used to support the instruction in the classroom. The public release items can be given to the students and changed to allow the students to practice objectives in the same format as presented on the state assessment. If a teacher is having difficulty creating a lesson for a particular objective or if the teacher wants ideas, they can use the lesson seeds and lesson plans to help support instruction.
You can also view the core learning goals, if available for that subject area. There is also a section that provides instructional strategies to help support the teacher during instruction. For example:
For pk-8 the following resources are available for math:
To access this page go to:
There are also instructional strategies available for other subject areas.
Under assessment resources, you can access Public Release Items from the MSA and HSA. There is also information provided about the State Assessments. There is also a web resource page. This page contains websites that can help support the objectives taught for a particular grade level and subject area.
“…the alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment is needed if our students are going to experience success. The essential mathematics that should be taught in every classroom throughout Maryland
The teaching and learning section under instruction on the MDK12 website is an invaluable resource for the classroom. Teachers have access to the standards that should be taught for their particular subject area. There are resources available to help support the instruction within these areas. The website is very interactive. This website should be used frequently to help support instruction.
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