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What the curriculum guide is not...
The curriculum guide is not a lock-step instructional guide detailing exactly when and how to teach.
The curriculum guide does not restrict your teacher’s creativity.
The curriculum guide is neither the ceiling of what your students can learn nor a set of unattainable goals.
Constructing Better Instruction by Using the Curriculum Guides
This button will take you to the Year at a
Glance, where teachers can see the TEKS for
This button will take you to a Google
document where teachers and
Administrators can provide feedback to the
specialists about the units with questions and suggestions.
The curriculum guide is meant to be a vision for
student learning, outlining when you would
reasonably expect most of your students to master
a set of learning goals. It is created by master
teachers in Judson ISD for Judson teachers.
Each unit begins with a set of essential questions.
These essential questions will launch and guide
each unit of study and should help students
understand the concepts being taught.
The curriculum guide outlines which learning goals
are most essential for student learning; it is our
district’s guaranteed and viable curriculum.
The expectation is that every student in our district,
regardless of school or classroom, will know and
understand these learning goals. As the
administrator assisting the teacher, or the
classroom teacher, you should use the curriculum
guide to help you to decide how to scaffold up to
the learning goals, and extend your students’
learning beyond them.
The curriculum guide is a planning tool; unit time
frames are provided, but as the instructional
leaders of your school, you determine the scope
and sequence in which you will introduce the
prioritized learning goals of that unit. You are
encouraged to create your own sub-units of study
within each unit using the suggested resources as a
starting point.
This is a hyperlink to the
curriculum guides.
Information on the
guides on the back page.
Unit 2: Introductions to Functions and
Sequences (14 days)
Using the Curriculum Guides
This section will give information
on the basics of the unit.
The time frame is a suggestion of
how long the unit should ideally take to
teach.
The big ideas and essential
questions will help lead discussion
through the entire unit and
students should be able to answer
This section provides information
about WHAT is taught.
Skills unwraps the TEKS by
identifying the verb
Concepts discusses the specifics of
what the students are expected to
know and be able to do.
This section includes strategies to
teach to all students. Think of it as
master teacher notes for new or
inexperienced teachers to this
content. It contains tips, graphic organizers, misconceptions and
a “road map” through the content.
Tier I Instructional Strategies – Classroom Instruction for All Students
Unit
Time Frame
TEKS / Student Expectations
Skills
Concepts
All guides will contain 2—3
writing prompts for each unit. It
is suggested that each content practice writing.
Critical Writing Prompts
This section includes strategies
to teach to students who need
a little extra help. It is extra
activities, strategies and more
tips, and graphic organizers.
S3 Strategies for Struggling Students
(Additional Support to
This section contains the
academic and content specific
new vocabulary words for the unit.
Some sections may include links to word
Vocabulary
Depending on the grade level this
unit will either contain short unit
assessments or checkpoints. If it
is a STAAR or EOC tested grade
level, this section will contain released STAAR questions if they
are available. This section may include hyperlinked / embedded
tests and keys in addition to instructions on downloading the
tests and / or answer documents from Eduphoria. All tests have
been built in Eduphoria.
Unit Assessments / Checkpoints
This section included links for
items or webpages denoted in
the guides. It would also include suggested
resources that may not have been used but
suggested.
Resources
Big Ideas
Essential Questions
ELAR
EC—5 Lucia West [email protected]
K—5 Maricela Maldonado [email protected]
6—12 Jeanette Dear [email protected]
Math
K—5 Gary West [email protected]
5—8 Veronica Padilla-
Ferrer [email protected]
8—12 Devin Holmes [email protected]
Science
K—12 Elsa Barrientos [email protected]
K—12 Todd Pope [email protected]
Social Studies
K—12 Cortney Clift [email protected]
Created by: JISD C&I July 2019
