Elevate teaching and learning

In all of our courses the Walch alignment document shows that all major and supporting standards have been addressed. More than 75% of the major work are addressed in our lessons.

The practice standards are taught throughout the program and the Implementation Guides for the Problem-Based tasks include direction for teachers on how to effectively facilitate the practices.

The alignment in all of our courses, assures the connections between domains, clusters, units and courses has been addressed. Each lesson intentionally relates new concepts to students’ prior knowledge, setting the foundation for future learning and allowing access to prior learning from major work in the grade or course.

Instructional strategies which assist teachers in delivering instruction for ALL learners and learning modalities are provided for every lesson with explicit instructions and suggestions for struggling readers, ELLs, and students with disabilities in the Program Overview. Station Activities and conceptual activities, found in every unit, both address multiple learning styles. We provide a set of Coaching Questions and Implementation Guides for each problem-based tasks, which provides scaffolding, differentiation, remediation and enrichment for all learners. We provide a set of scaffolded practice for each lesson which provides a DOK 1 & 2 level set of problems. Three to five sets of Station Activities are found in every unit, and the problem-based tasks are found in every lesson. Conceptual activities can also be opportunities for listening, speaking, reading and writing mathematics content and are found in every unit. Problem-based tasks as well as practice, warm-ups and guided practice incorporate diverse names and examples throughout the program. Conceptual activities can also be opportunities for listening, speaking, reading and writing mathematics content and are found in every unit.

Our courses provide ample opportunities for students to practice fluency and procedural skills in our scaffolded practice, guided practice, and the practice problems by providing students flexibility in their use of procedures and skills to solve problems. These course materials also provide opportunity for building conceptual understanding through our alignment of conceptual activities which includes Desmos and Geogebra activities and other OERs. Aligned conceptual activities can be found listed in the Table of Content and accessible in the Curriculum Engine as a learning object. Problem based tasks provide deeper understanding and integration of conceptual understanding in real-world applications by giving students the opportunity to access concepts and ideas from a variety of perspectives.