Curriculum
What is a curriculum?
The action, practice, or profession of teaching
What is the definition of instruction?
Something that sets a consistent understanding of what students should learn
What is a standard?
the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students.
What is an Assessment?
Political advocacy, Bias or prejudice, Lack of neutrality in religious matters, etc.
What are some activities that fall outside of the scope of a curriculum?
approaches in which groups work together to complete tasks, solve problems, or create products, reaping collective benefits
What is Collaborative Instruction?
Common Core State Standards
What are the National standards for the USA?
They administer this to get a representative sample of the nation's student body performance.
What is the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress)?
- Planned and systematic
- Inclusive and consultative
- Led by curriculum professionals
- Cyclical in nature
- Sustainable
What are features of a good curriculum?
a constructivist activity in which learners begin with questions, researching related data and solutions to deepen understanding.
What is Inquiry-Based Learning?
“Students will understand the effects of the relative positions of the earth, moon and sun.”
What is a content standard?
Diagnostic, Formative, & Summative Assessments
What are the types of General Assessments?
Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Creativity.
What are some things that are developed in a curriculum?
teaching through the use of authentic (or semi-authentic) experience
What is experimental instruction?
These incorporate the content standards and they define the level of work that demonstrates achievement of the standards.
What are performance standards?
performance-based, self-assessment, and peer assessment
What are the methods of assessment?