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In the Milan Area School District we have worked hard to articulate our
curriculum and align our instruction to the Michigan Curriculum grade level and
high school content standards. This website offers our community the
opportunity to access our curriculum maps for classes and courses taught in the
district. The district uses a process called curriculum mapping to aid in the
implementation of district and state curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
"Curriculum Mapping" is a calendar-based method of organizing and planning what
is happening in district classrooms at specific points during the school year.
Teachers develop maps of the content that needs to be taught, the skills that
need development, essential questions that frame their units and the assessments
to determine successful learning. The district uses the maps as a tool to aid
in analyzing the instructional program. The maps are communication tools for
actual learning experiences in the classroom. The district can easily see the
"big picture" for curriculum decision-making. Teachers can use the maps to see
what students have learned in previous years or to look at the future to
determine their course of study.
Parents, students and community members can use the maps to gain a deeper
understanding of grade level and course expectations. The maps allow parents an
overall view of requirements needed to succeed. Students can access the maps to
gain more information to aid in course selection at the high school. They can
also enable community members the ability to see how the district develops plans
for student achievement.
Curriculum mapping is an ongoing process that is revised based on student
needs. Therefore, please read the maps as an outline of curriculum. The maps
are not intended to be lesson plan documents. Readers of these curriculum
documents should be cautioned that a curriculum map is never "finished", because
the maps need to reflect current and relevant events that are covered in class.
The maps reflect the expectations of the teacher for the course, recognizing
that goals may be accomplished early, or may not be completed as expected. This
may be due to how quickly students grasp the material, changes in schedules,
assemblies, field trips etc. You may also find that some maps differ in stages
of completion or may even be empty. This is due to the fact that some are being
currently changed, updated, or rearranged.
Directions:
To find the curriculum map that you are interested in reviewing, click on the
word "Browse " at the top of this web page. You can browse through maps by
different means - including by Teachers, Subjects, Grades and Collaborations.
- Select the means by which you would like to browse: Teachers, Subject,
Grades or Collaborations. Each option lists all of the maps in the system
filtered by the option you have selected. To view a map, click on the
hyperlinked course name.
- Once you have selected the method you wish to browse, and then picked
the Teacher, Subject, or Grade you want to review. The "breadcrumbs" at the
top of the page display the path you took to reach this location. You can
click on those hyperlinked words to move backwards in your path.
- Click on the hyperlinked Course name to see the entire curriculum map.
- Clicking on the Units icon will allow you to browse through individual
units of the selected map. To see the curriculum map only one unit at a
time, click on the small eyeglasses icon. Click the eyeglasses icon next to
the unit you are interested in.
- The Atlas Logo in the upper left hand corner of the map will return you
to the previous page.
Note: Teachers will be reviewing the assessment column of their maps this
year and revising them to reflect the current grade level and high school
content expectations. This column will be made available next year after a
complete review of the alignment.
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