"Curriculum alignment" refers to how well the content and goals of a curriculum (such as a school's lessons and activities) match with what students are expected to learn. It ensures that the curriculum is appropriate and consistent with educational standards and objectives.
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In my experience, curriculum coaches, grade - level representatives, and district staff development led
curriculum alignment efforts and shared the results with the pre-K — 3 staff.
These questions focus
on curriculum alignment, formative assessment, academic intervention, and academic enrichment.
During the next 30 years, the district evolved shared decision making in such areas
as curriculum alignment, test writing, textbook selection, and professional development.
These conversations cause teachers to refine their instructional practice, improve both teaching and student learning, and
create curriculum alignment and accountability with each other.
LDC LEARN's professional learning system offers blended and online professional lesson study courses; collaborative workspaces for teachers and coaches to develop curriculum; libraries of high - quality, vetted units and lessons; disciplinary student work rubrics; the SCALE /
LDC Curriculum Alignment Rubric for formative and summative curriculum quality assessment; and data for progress monitoring.
LDC trains educators to use the SCALE / LDC
Curriculum Alignment Rubric formatively, as part of professional learning, and summatively for curriculum development.
Since then, the social studies standards have been widely and successfully used as a framework for teachers, schools, districts, states, and other nations as a tool
for curriculum alignment and development.
Provide instructional leadership that enhances articulation regarding
curriculum alignment with standards, the development and implementation of common assessments, and the use of effective instructional strategies that will most appropriately meet the needs of students.
Public Waldorf - Common
Core Curriculum Alignment and Handbook The first edition of this seminal work includes Alliance recommendations regarding the placement of Common Core standards in the Public Waldorf Education classroom.
A tiny speck of teacher performance pay here, a dab of
curriculum alignment there, a tiny piece of teacher professional development over there, block scheduling and a day or two of leadership training here, and a friendly nod to parent engagement somewhere.
Teaching vocabulary within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is an essential component of standards -
based curriculum alignment.
To achieve this model
Constructive Curriculum Alignment (Biggs and Tange, 2007) is applied to course development in order to enhance Learner experience and understanding.
An elementary reading program, a
mathematics curriculum alignment and revision project, and the Ventures in Education program have all been led by teachers in the district.
The plan outlined Connecticut's efforts to adopt Common Core
through curriculum alignment, communication with stakeholders, and reorganizing resources.
A series of formal and informal meetings, including staff meetings, grade - level meetings,
curriculum alignment meetings, and the School Improvement Team, contributed to this key element of school operation.
The review process includes: double - blind scoring by expert, calibrated LDC Reviewers using the research - validated SCALE / LDC
Curriculum Alignment Rubric; constructive feedback and suggested revisions on curricular units; and individual and group pattern analyses.
This process
of curriculum alignment can be effected for an individual learner as well, thus meeting the needs of special populations of gifted learners who require even more tailoring in their curriculum.
Science Support Services are available
for curriculum alignment and analysis, assessment development and analysis, and inquiry - based instructional strategies.
Curriculum alignment: If the product is digital content or other learning content, is it aligned to the new curriculum?
Houston's efforts to improve instruction were focused on building teacher capacity in three areas: reading, math, and
curriculum alignment.
In reading, math, and
curriculum alignment, Superintendent Paige and his staff identified key issues that needed to be addressed and responded boldly.
When Houston first began talking of
curriculum alignment, some saw this as an attempt to cheatâ $» that is, to teach to the test, a manager in the curriculum department told me.
, these informal, non-evaluative classroom visits by administrators can lead to improved instructional practices and
curriculum alignment.
This teaches you what to look for — the most important thing is
curriculum alignment.
I never looked for
the curriculum alignment piece before.
«Practical lessons arising from recent innovations in teacher education, professional learning,
curriculum alignment and inter-school collaboration can help here,» they said.
In addition to classroom teaching and research, Michael has worked as a technology mentor and strategy leader, advising in the development of learning management systems, 1:1 programs and ICT -
curriculum alignment.
If the professional development is truly valuable, then the majority of the day must be dedicated to lesson planning and
curriculum alignment or else it will be for naught.
Liber will oversee service delivery and customer support, while Discovery Education will manage language translation and
curriculum alignment.
Framing the library learning commons program around the two core streams of discovery and project learning provides new opportunities for strategic and
curriculum alignment, effective scheduling, student assessment, and most of all for program assessment and development — measuring what matters.
the best case scenario is that standards - based learning and
curriculum alignment have already helped teachers to understand where to focus instruction and the «mad - dash» this time this year may not be quite so mad or quite so much the dash.
She is a leading expert in urban education,
curriculum alignment, standards - based instruction, and data - informed decision - making.
She has presented regionally and nationally, for K - 12 and higher education audiences, on the impact of professional learning communities on faculty development,
curriculum alignment, and student success.
She has over 25 years of experience in the field of fine arts and arts education as a choral director, clinician, arts advocate, and instructional leader with extensive knowledge in performing arts curriculum development, fine arts curriculum standards, arts administration, professional development and training, strategic planning, and
curriculum alignment.
Again, as Larry Lezotte taught us,
curriculum alignment is simple, but it is not easy.