AVID

Curriculum Overview:  Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) is academic elective courses that prepares students for college readiness and success.  Each week, students receive instruction utilizing a rigorous college preparatory curriculum that incorporates strategies focused on Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading (WICOR) to support their academic growth.  In addition, the AVID standards include a focus on Character Development, Communication, and College Preparedness. Students will have the opportunity to express their personal identity and goals, explore career options, and learn more about colleges across the country. Most importantly, students  will work together to create a meaningful community. As an AVID family, students  will support, challenge, and celebrate each other.

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Computer Science

Curriculum Overview:  Computer Science is an academic discipline that encompasses the study of computers and algorithmic processes, including their principles, their hardware and software designs, their applications, networks, and their impact on society.

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ELA - English Language Arts

Curriculum Overview:  ELA instruction includes four distinct areas: reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language.  ELA has a broad emphases on:

• ELA as an integrated discipline,
• ELA instruction building an understanding of the human experience,
• Literacy is an evolving concept, and becoming literate is a lifelong learning process,
• Critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity are aspects of effective ELA, instruction and attributes desired for Wisconsin graduates,
• Literacy, language, and meaning are socially constructed and are enhanced by multiple perspectives.

Through instruction in ELA, all students will:

• Demonstrate independence,
• Build strong content knowledge,
• Respond to varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline,
• Comprehend as well as critique,
• Value evidence,
• Use technology and digital media strategically and capably, and
• Come to understand other perspectives and cultures.

Learn more about literacy instruction and assessment at MTSD

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FACS - Family and Consumer Sciences

Curriculum Overview:  Family and Consumer Science curriculum consists of a variety of topics, such as health and nutrition, dietary needs, leadership, teen issues, family, careers, community service, entrepreneurship, job skills, managing life, consumerism, culture of food, food customs and traditions along with goal setting, babysitting safety, kitchen safety and sanitation. This course is an interactive course where students have the ability to refine their skills through numerous hands-on projects.

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Fine Arts

Curriculum Overview: In art courses, students develop and enrich basic skills such as drawing, composition, design and color theory using a variety of media choices explored through both two and three-dimensional projects. Students also learn about the impact of art on their daily lives through hands-on art activities. 21st century skills are infused into the art curriculum at all levels.

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Financial Literacy

Curriculum Overview:  The sixth grade Financial Literacy course is designed to provide students with practical money management skills and as an introduction to career assessment and financial planning. Students explore careers, the fundamentals of money management and consumer responsibility, bank services, credit and credit scores, and risk management. 

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Mathematics

Curriculum Overview:  The MTSD mathematics curriculum ensures all students develop the behaviors and habits of mind necessary to be mathematically proficient and engage in deep mathematical understanding.  To develop the necessary behaviors and habits of mind, MTSD math teachers use the 8 Standards for Mathematical Practice: 

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Mission of Math in MTSD:  Together, we inspire students to gain an understanding and appreciation of mathematics that lasts a lifetime and evolves to meet the changing demands they will experience in life to shape our ever changing world.
Vision of Math in MTSD:  Empowering all math students to become accurate, efficient, engaged and flexible problem solvers.

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Performing Arts

Curriculum Overview:   Band, Choir and Orchestra provide the opportunity for students to study instrumental and/or choral music and performance technique.  The literature explored in these performance ensembles exposes students to a variety of forms and styles, as well as providing instruction on the elements of music: melody, harmony,rhythm, tone, form, tempo and dynamics. Students will receive two full ensemble rehearsals and one small-group sectional rehearsal each week. Students may participate in the WSMA Solo and Ensemble Festival each Spring and will present a minimum of three concerts each year.

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Physical Education & Wellness

Curriculum Overview: Physical education is a part of all students’ curriculum throughout middle school. Physical education classes provide each student with the opportunity to participate in a comprehensive program consisting of skill development, team sports and physical fitness activities. The curriculum is designed to enhance the cognitive, motor, affective and fitness development of each student. Students receive instruction in rules and strategies associated with a variety of sports, as well as learning experiences that prompt students to question, analyze and communicate concepts. Students also have the opportunity to participate in individual sports, which encourage lifelong involvement in physical activity. The program promotes the spirit of cooperation, leadership, fair play and friendly competition.

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PLTW - Project Lead the Way

Curriculum Overview:  Students are exposed to a variety of projects in the field of technology and engineering.  Students will work independently and in teams to utilize computer aided drafting, geometry, problem solving, and project management skills to complete projects that are reflective of real world problems and issues.  Students meet daily for 6 weeks in the PLTW course Design & Modeling in 6th grade.  Seventh graders meet every other day and have opportunities to solve authentic engineering problems such as engineering a piece of playground equipment, designing and creating a pen using machine and hand tools, and prototyping and constructing working digital electrical circuits.  Eighth grade students will participate in the Fluid Power Challenge, Automation & Robotics, Green Architecture and Flight & Space.

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Science

Curriculum Overview:  Science is an academic discipline encompassing the study of the natural world including engineering applications, understanding problem-solving and design thinking within the human built world. Engineering ideas encompass the interactions of science, technology, and society and provide an important foundation to prepare students for post-secondary education, careers, and community involvement.

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Social Studies

Curriculum Overview:  Social studies is the integrated study of economics, geography, history, political science, and the behavioral sciences of psychology, sociology, and anthropology to promote civic competence. This area of study provides an important foundation to prepare students to become engaged, informed participants committed to the ideas and values of our democratic republic, able to apply the skills of inquiry, collaboration, decision making, and problem solving (adapted from the National Council for the Social Studies definition).  Students will become civically-engaged problem-solvers who critically examine their roles in local, regional, state, national, and global communities. Through the study and application of the individual disciplines of social studies (behavioral sciences, economics, geography, history, and political science), students become lifelong learners able to collaborate and thrive in our interdependent world.

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World Languages

Curriculum Overview: The mission of the Mequon-Thiensville School District World Language Program is to equip all students with transferable skills that encourage them to recognize, respect and respond to cultural perspectives while inspiring a passion to investigate the world as informed global citizens. The World Language Department embraces its mission statement and offers students the opportunity to learn three of the official languages used by the United Nations: Chinese, French and Spanish, in addition to a time-honored classical language, Latin. 

The middle school world languages program is designed to prepare our students to enter high school ready for the second level in French or Spanish. These courses focus on vocabulary development through the introduction of grammar points, verb conjugations and cultural awareness.

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Human Growth and Development

The Mequon-Thiensville School District has made a commitment to provide health education to all students. One vital element of health education is the instruction of Human Growth and Development. While the parent/guardian is and will continue to be the primary educator, the Mequon-Thiensville School District will provide accurate and current information and materials that promote health and awareness to the students. Mequon-Thiensville School District firmly believes that a comprehensive Human Growth and Development curriculum is about the development of the whole student. The curriculum emphasizes the individual's safety, respect, responsibility and sexual risk avoidance.