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Achieving AYP Using State-specific Curriculum Matrix Data
This resource kit provides user-friendly crosswalks of your state’s standards and subcategories (e.g., benchmarks, performance indicators, topics) to your state assessments required by NCLB in English language arts, mathematics, and science and to the International Center’s Curriculum Survey of Essential Skills. High, medium, and low priorities are assigned to each subcategory in the standards based on the crosswalks. These crosswalks are combined in the Curriculum Matrix.
The Curriculum Matrix assists teachers in improving the performance of their students on high-stakes assessments. It also pinpoints the knowledge and skills students will need to succeed after graduation.
The Curriculum Matrix indicates which state standards/benchmarks/performance indicators/topics should be high priorities, based on how/if they are tested and how highly they are rated in the Curriculum Survey of Essential Skills. With this tool at their fingertips, educators can make informed decisions about whether to place more or less emphasis on a particular standard or grade level expectation. In short, this resource kit helps answer the question, what should I teach?
Achieving AYP Using State-specific Curriculum Matrix Data also includes:
- professional development activities to help educators set instructional priorities, improve their pedagogical skills, and teach for rigor and relevance
- 150 Gold Seal Lessons on CD linked to essential skills — 75 for grades K-8 and 75 for 9-12.
Contents
- High Performance for All Students
- Introduction
- A Complex World Demands High-level Skills
- What Defines Academic Excellence?
- Implications for Schools
- Leadership and Accountability
- Taking Action
- Resources
- Data-based Decision Making
- Using Data
- Data Sources
- Analytical Model for Data-driven Achievement
- Using the Curriculum Matrix
- What Should Be Taught?
- Components of the Curriculum Matrix
- Putting the Curriculum Matrix to Use
- Setting Instructional Priorities
- Role of Standards
- Key Components of Standards
- Role of State Tests
- Using Other Data Sources
- Role of Essential Skills
- Linking Standards and Instruction
- Aligning Instructional Strategies and Assessment
- Curriculum Mapping
- Activities for Staff Development
- Processes to Align Curriculum and Instruction
- Identifying Factors that Influence Change
- Matching Standards to Curriculum
- Understanding Standards
- Using the Curriculum Matrix
- Reading Test Specifications/Blueprints
- Analyzing the Test
- Differentiating Standards and Instruction
- Valuing a Curriculum Map
- Developing a Curriculum Map
- Analyzing Gaps Using Curriculum Maps
- Scaffolding Skills
- Mapping Across Disciplines
- Identifying Root Causes
- Planning for Rigorous and Relevant Learning
- Which Instructional Strategies Work Best?
- Linking Standards and Student Work
- Designing Parallel Tasks
- Analyzing Students’ Performance on the Test
- Identifying Academic Intervention Strategies
- Peer Review of Lessons
- Gold Seal Lessons
- What Are Gold Seal Lessons?
- Grades K-8 Gold Seal Lessons
- Grades 9-12 Gold Seal Lessons
- State Curriculum Matrix Data
- Overview
- State Information Resources
- Curriculum Matrix Summary
Appendix - Essential Skills
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To view excerpts from your state Curriculum Matrix charts, please
click here.
To read an excerpt from this publication, click here.
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