Curriculum Alignment

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Curriculum Alignment

• Using Alignment To Maximize Student Achievement

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Alignment Video

• How could this concept apply to your site?

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PURPOSE

• To enable curriculum developers to design
  curriculum documents which provide for alignment
  among the written, and assessed curriculum and
  promote student achievement through aligned
  curriculum resources and strategies.

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Objectives

• OMSD site administrators will understand the
  concept and practice of curriculum alignment
  (alignment of the written, taught, and tested).

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• OMSD site administrators will be able to guide
  their staff in curriculum mapping to ensure that
  district curriculum objectives are taught at each
  grade level.

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• OMSD site administrators will be able to guide
  their staff in
• a. Planning lessons aligned to
  curriculum maps
• b. Designing lessons to ensure effective
  delivery of the aligned district
  curriculum necessary for student
  mastery.

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• OMSD site administrators will understand the use
  of Walk-Through observations as a tool for
  developing delivery of aligned district
  curriculum.

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Pre-Assessment

• 1. As the instructional leader at your site,
  what are you doing to ensure that curriculum is
  aligned to state and district standards?
• 2. What support are you currently providing
  your staff to assist this process?
• 3. What additional support do you or your
  staff need?

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QUESTION ?????

• Do we need a common set of written curricular
  objectives which will be followed by all
  teachers?
• 1. Discuss
• 2. List reasons to be shared

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What Curriculum Must Do In Schools

• FOCUS to identify what is essential and
  significant
• CONNECT to reinforce complex learning to
  mastery within and across grade levels and
  schools
• EQUALITY/EQUITY to ensure that every student
  has access to the same curriculum

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Focus and Connectivity
Pre-K-14 ARTICULATION across grades/courses,school
s VERTICAL

COORDINATION ACROSS SCHOOLS, SAME GRADES
/COURSES LATERAL
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Quality Control
Curriculum
Teaching
Assessment

• Curriculum the work plan
• Teaching the work
• Assessment the work measure

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Curriculum vs. Instruction

• Ends
• Goals
• Standards
• Objectives
• Research/Theory
• Effect

• Means
• Processes
• Practices
• Resources
• Opinion
• Cause

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Tightly Held - Loosely Held

• SYSTEM-BASED
• Ends
• Mission
• Standards
• Goals Priorities
• Student Objectives
• Student Assessments

• SCHOOL-BASED
• Means
• Instruction
• Strategies
• Groupings
• Staffing
• Processes
• Resources/Textbooks

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Alignment
Written
Taught
Tested
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Unity

• Goals/standards must be capable of being
  translated intact across teachers/sites
  (precise,clear objectives).
• Testing must be congruent with objectives or vice
  versa
• Test results must be translated to specific work
  changes.(Instruction)
• Results must be systematically improved and
  maintained over time.

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Assessment Beliefs

• Current Status

• Desired Status

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Items To Remember In Using Test Data To Improve
Achievement

• 1) Tests assess cumulative information
• 2) Where a test identifies a problem is not
  necessarily where it is in the curriculum

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Achievement Measured Learning
All Learning In School
Measured Learning TEST
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Two Types Of Alignment

• DESIGN refers to the development of curriculum
• DELIVERY refers to its implementation

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Alignment
Written
Delivery
Design
Taught
Tested
Delivery
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Curriculum Development
FRONTLOADING establishing the fit by working
from the curriculum to the test. BACKLOADING
working from the test to the curriculum.
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Analyze High Stakes Test Item

• Read selected released items.
• Determine number and type of item.

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Analysis of Test Item
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Scope and Sequence

• Curriculum scope means the coverage of every
  course/subject taught with a written curriculum
• Curriculum scope and sequence means the student
  learnings(scope) and order in which the learnings
  are to be taught(sequence) across grade levels

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Written Curriculum Scope

• Set of written student objectives
• For every subject, grade and course taught

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Preparation Scope Sequence

• Develops as objectives are selected
• Place in scope sequence at least one grade
  level before tested
• Build in enough time for practice
• Spiral through curriculum

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Curriculum Alignment Plan

• What is essential?
• How do you coordinate across schools?
• How do you articulate from grade to grade?
• How do we share curriculum alignment at the sites?

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Reflection

• What are your next steps to initiate or continue
  the deep alignment of curriculum at your site?
• What steps will you take?
• What experts do you need to assist you?
• What professional books could you provide your
  staff to promote implementation of a quality
  curriculum?