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Oh.  So the stuff that you are buying off of Teachers Pay Teachers or whatever is “true curriculum” but this isn’t?

http://mdk12.msde.maryland.gov/instruction/curriculum/mathematics/index.html

http://mdk12.msde.maryland.gov/instruction/curriculum/mathematics/units/gr3_multiply_divide_within_100/

http://mdk12.msde.maryland.gov/share/ccsc/uos/resources/math/gr3_multiply_divide_within_100/Lesson_Plan_3_OA_C_7_Mulitply_and_Divide.docx
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Those are standards and "lesson seeds".  A curriculum is the actual work you have the students do every single day.

Heaven help the substitute teacher who shows up to teach your class and all you have left for her is the MD state standard and "lesson seed"!  You have to have the actual work -- worksheets, lesson materials, readings, exercises, activities -- in order to teach every day.

Experienced teachers can (and usually want to) take the standards and lesson seeds, and can create their own curriculum from those and from knowledge of what skills the students are expected to master.  But it takes time to craft these.   Several hours per hour of instruction, if you are creating them all yourself.

My school district provides a daily curriculum, i.e. "it is Tuesday, say this and have the kids do this".  It's not great but new teachers find it reassuring to at least have a start.

Some school districts provide textbooks that have most of the curriculum.  When I was in high school we had teachers who just basically followed the text book and gave assignments from the workbooks.   It was better than nothing.  But the best teachers created their own cirriculum (but were then allowed to teach the same thing year after year.  They didn't have to write the curriculum every year,)[/quote]

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