If you want your students to pass high stakes tests, the curriculum your teachers teach must be deeply aligned with the test.
This intensive training offers the skills needed to construct teacher-friendly curriculum guides that increase the congruence between the written, taught, and tested curricula in classrooms, schools, and school districts that will lead to substantial gains in student achievement on high-stakes tests currently in use.
Participants will know and understand the:
- Principles of alignment between the written, taught, and tested curriculum
- Rationale for curriculum alignment
- Foundational concepts of deep alignment
- Specialized terminology used in the deep alignment process
- Sociological perspective of cultural capital and how it relates to students and tests
Participants will be able to:
- Backload publicly released test items into the curriculum
- Deconstruct test items
- Determine the context, content and cognitive level for alignment
- Develop parallel test items
- Check for text/test alignment
Participants will have the skills to:
- Design curriculum guides from state standards
- Develop a multi-year plan for curriculum review
- Design a curriculum guide format and its critical components
- Produce and use a validation matrix
- Create a curriculum plan
- Write a curriculum policy
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