While the project aims to produce free, high - quality, CCSS -
aligned instructional materials for distribution across the country, it also seeks to answer key questions: What are the most critical problems with today's instructional materials?
Not exact matches
The scramble to deliver quality, CCSS -
aligned professional development to all who need it is both as crucial and (so far) as patchy as the quest
for suitable
instructional materials.
By
instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision
for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether
instructional systems in the school are properly
aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of
instructional materials.
These criteria provide clear guidance to publishers and their customers about what it means
for instructional materials to be
aligned to the standards.
The instructors are themselves of two minds on this matter, many of them taking professional pride and pedagogical satisfaction in developing and adapting their own curricula, even as others yearn
for someone to please supply them with quality
instructional materials that are
aligned with the standards and assessments that their states have mandated.
While academic content standards such as NGSS lay out concepts and skills students should learn at each grade level, the curricular framework serves as a blueprint
for delivering those standards and includes criteria
for evaluating
instructional materials aligned to the new content.
The degree to which the teachers of the school district are appropriately assigned, and fully credentialed in the subject areas, and,
for the pupils they are teaching, every pupil in the school district has sufficient access to the standards -
aligned instructional materials, and school facilities are maintained in good repair.
This purpose can be accomplished by ensuring that high - quality academic assessments, accountability systems, teacher preparation and training, curriculum, and
instructional materials are
aligned with state academic standards so that students, teachers, parents, and administrators can measure progress against common expectations
for student academic achievement.
Among the expenses are such things as new
instructional materials aligned to college - career readiness standards; additional professional development
for teachers; creation and implementation of a teacher and principal evaluation system, and student assessment and accountability costs.
State Readies Release of First Supplemental
Materials Tied to Common Core State officials are expected to reach a milestone this week in the development of supplemental instructional materials for California classrooms aligned to the new common core s
Materials Tied to Common Core State officials are expected to reach a milestone this week in the development of supplemental
instructional materials for California classrooms aligned to the new common core s
materials for California classrooms
aligned to the new common core standards.
In St. John the Baptist Parish Public Schools — a district just outside of New Orleans where 85 percent of students qualify
for free or reduced - price lunch — the state's efforts to prioritize
aligned instructional materials are having a big impact.
The $ 1.3 billion Common Core Implementation Fund can be used
for Common Core related professional development training;
instructional materials aligned to Common Core standards and technology upgrades.
Now, as the implementation dates
for the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) loom large, many districts are facing the need to buy new
instructional materials aligned with the standards, and OER is a hotter topic than ever.
The
instructional material for a given grade level should
align to the standards
for that grade level.
I applaud the authors of the study and the article
for cautioning educators to examine carefully
instructional materials claiming to be
aligned to the CCSS.
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EdReports recently released their reviews of four publishers»
instructional materials aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
for mathematics: Math Learning Center's Bridges in Mathematics (K - 5), McGraw Hill's Everyday Math (K - 6), Kendall Hunt's Math Innovations (6 - 8), and Origo's Stepping Stones (K - 5).
Reviewing the
materials for alignment to the
instructional shifts of the CCSS, EdReports found only one
material, Bridges in Mathematics, to be fully
aligned and sufficiently easy to use.
With less state guidance on what to choose and more
instructional materials to choose from, districts bear a greater burden to ensure the
materials they select are
aligned to standards and appropriate
for students.
Section 1001.1 calls
for «ensuring that high - quality academic assessments, accountability systems, teacher preparation and training, curriculum, and
instructional materials are
aligned with challenging state academic standards.»