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Curriculum Writing & Implementation

Whether your goal is to update existing curriculum or build a curricular framework from the ground, Partner in Education has a professional development framework that will fit your educator’s needs. Begin with an orientation session to bring faculty on board and follow-up with a series of customized sessions that can meet grade level or departmental needs. An experienced curriculum writer, Partner in Education will customize a program to meet the cultural and professional needs of your faculty and ensure a quality curriculum aligned to current standards and responsive to community culture.

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Written curriculum is the dynamic force behind student learning. Maximize the value of your district curriculum by using it daily: to raise teacher expectations; to raise student performance; to clearly identify learning outcomes; to align and guide assessment.

Whether your district curriculum is dusty and needs updating or your district is without content curricula that guides instruction with integrity, now is the time to review and renew educational goals.

Curricular documents are the result of thoughtful planning among professionals who aim at high standards, expect age-appropriate outcomes, and respect cultural differences. And that makes the presence of a formal and practical guide all the more valuable as a teaching and learning tool. 

Designing Educational Infrastructures

A Multi-Step Process

Orientation Seminar

  • Address Essential Questions
  • Model Research-Proven Designs
  • Compare Exemplary Models
  • Integrating Cross Curricular

Curriculum Planning Workshops

  • Think Tanks
    • Grade Level
    • Department Level
  • Guiding Considerations
  • Must Teach: Content & Theory

Aligning Ideas & Standards

  • Writing Outcomes
  • Balancing Authentic & Conventional Assessment
  • Exacting Expectations

Formalizing Working Curriculum

  • Formatting the Document
  • Developing Assessments
  • Writing Rubrics
  • Differentiating Options


Questions to Begin Curricular Discussions

  • How can formal curriculum enrich student learning?
  • As an educator, does a curriculum guide undermine academic freedom?
  • What role does testing play in curriculum development?
  • Can and should curricular outcomes address authentic assessment?
  • Doesn’t my textbook act as the curriculum guide?
  • I know what I want to teach; why do I need daily or unit objectives?
  • How can unit outcomes support RtI decisions?
  • What is the relationship between outcomes and achievement?
 

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