Sentences with phrase «improve curriculum alignment»

Looking at student math work at transition points and examining ways to improve curriculum alignment during transition years.

Not exact matches

Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.

, these informal, non-evaluative classroom visits by administrators can lead to improved instructional practices and curriculum alignment.

As with the reading initiative, the curriculum - alignment initiative has the power to improve instruction simply by making what happens in the classroom the subject of discussion and critique.

Assessing the Common Core Standards: Opportunities for Improving Measures of Instruction Educational Researcher, May 2011 Responding to comments on their «Common Core Standards: The New U.S. Intended Curriculum,» the authors suggest additional perspective that should be considered when addressing quality and change, stating additional conceptualizations of mathematics and English language arts content as well as how to define and measure alignment among content standards, materials, assessments, and instruction should be explored.

The PTLC is an ongoing process designed to work systemically to improve the quality of professional development; the use of data to inform instructional and programmatic decisions; the alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to standards; the monitoring of student learning; and leadership support for continuous school improvement.

Use the SCALE / LDC Curriculum Alignment Rubric (CAR) to create a shared system of quality indicators that help teachers, schools, and systems align curriculum, instruction, and assessment, as well as ensure that every task put in front of students is standards - driven, engaging, and leads to improvedCurriculum Alignment Rubric (CAR) to create a shared system of quality indicators that help teachers, schools, and systems align curriculum, instruction, and assessment, as well as ensure that every task put in front of students is standards - driven, engaging, and leads to improvedcurriculum, instruction, and assessment, as well as ensure that every task put in front of students is standards - driven, engaging, and leads to improved outcomes.

These conversations cause teachers to refine their instructional practice, improve both teaching and student learning, and create curriculum alignment and accountability with each other.

Enactments of this condition positively associated with principal efficacy include district provision of data useful to schools in planning for professional development; involvement of schools in decision making related to the data; engagement of an external person to conduct a curriculum audit, thus encouraging improved alignment within the district; and detailed guidance and support by the district for schools trying to interpret and use their data.

The Division examines and improves the coherence, rigor, alignment, content and pacing of the district's curriculum guides and other instructional tools, including instructional materials, professional development, and academic programming.