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What is curriculum?
What is curriculum?
We refer to curriculum as "anything we want the students to know, understand, and be able to do(KUD)." There are several types of curriculum, and for the purposes of this workshop, we will refer mainly to these four:
The Recommended Curriculum: What experts think that students should know, understand, and be able to do. This generally includes state or national standards or competencies.
The Written Curriculum: This is what the district thinks that students should know, understand, and be able to do. This generally includes pacing guides and curriculum units.
The Taught Curriculum: This is what the teachers actually teach students to know, understand, and be able to do.
The Assessed Curriculum: This is how we measure what students know, understand, and are able to do.
Why is a written curriculum important?
Why is a written curriculum important?
The written curriculum ensures a systems-approach to teaching and learning across a school or a district and across multiple years. It helps teachers purposefully plan the alignment between the recommended, taught, and assessed curriculum.
What do we need to know before we create a high quality written curriculum?
What do we need to know before we create a high quality written curriculum?
The Understanding by Design framework correlates nicely with the types of curriculum listed above. Stage 1 refers to the Recommended Curriculum and what we want students to know, understand, and be able to do. Stage 2 refers to the assessed curriculum, and Stage 3 refers to the taught curriculum (or, the learning experiences).
Click the the pic above or use this link to read the ASCD whitepaper on the Understanding by Design Process.
What does a high quality written curriculum look like?
What does a high quality written curriculum look like?
View the ACES Curriculum Action Guide by clicking on the link to the left. Review each of the tabs for formatting, Stage 1, Stage 2, and Stage 3.
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