TEXTBOOK ALIGNMENT
Most School districts have already conducted textbook alignments to Common Core since February, 2015. Check your local school district for possible make up training. A selection of textbooks for core subjects are chosen by the district personnel, then to be adopted and purchased by the school.
The following practices are suggested as educators work to align CCSS, the Math Framework and core academic subjects in curricula and assessments based on providing a learning experience worthy of a 21st century student: • Use backward-design principles (such as Understanding by Design- UBD ) to design curriculum that encourages inquiry-based learning and enables embedded, performance-based assessments. • Develop interdisciplinary performance tasks and/or project based learning units that integrate the full Framework in alignment with CCSS; consider capstone performances such as senior portfolios. • Create curricula-embedded assessments to enable assessment as and for learning. • Collect and share exemplary student work that demonstrates mastery of college and career ready knowledge and skills. Use these examples to improve professional understanding among educators of “how to identify 21st century knowledge and skills” in student work. • Provide meaningful opportunities for educators to collaboratively review curricula, student work and student performance data, in order to refine the curricula and assessments over time. PDF file below is from the LAUSD textbook training for which it reminds teacher that the textbook should not be the only resource used in the classroom, as you deliver a lesson for a 21 century school student who is to be college and career ready. Visit achieve.lausd.net/ for more infomath |
Secondary Examples
These examples help demonstrate how educators can envision lessons that focus on 21st century skills and align with the CCSS. These are not fully-designed lessons and as such, should be viewed with an eye for how they can serve as starting places for curricula and lesson design/refinement. |
+ To show the importance of connecting the district's curriculum model to any textbook publisher, as if offers a comprehensive model for instructional planning. + There are resources from the textbook, and also many District-provided resources. The main resource from the publisher is the textbook. Although there may be several textbook resources available, there is only one curriculum. + The textbook is not necessarily aligned to the curriculum, but the curriculum contains standards, which guide our instruction. + The curriculum reveals which standards should be embedded for best instructional practices, as well as aid in the instructional shifts of focus, coherence and rigor. + The text gives lessons which will go along with our curriculum, which will prepare our students for district-provided assessments. |