Curriculum Management

Curriculum management can be a daunting and complex task. Once a curriculum is developed, whose job is it to make sure the curriculum is being followed and the objectives within the curriculum are being met? Classroom instruction is expected to include all skills and content required by the aligned scope and sequence of required activities, but how is one to know what is actually being taught in classrooms on a daily basis? Beyond managing instructional principles, assessment management principles must also be followed in curriculum management. Assessment of Student Performance is expected to provide for the acquisition, analysis and communication of student achievement data. This helps guide teacher instruction at appropriate levels of challenge as well as guide district and school improvement of curriculum alignment and programmatic decisions. Curriculum Management should also communicate progress to parents/guardians to support learning at home.

Collaborative Learning’s Curriculum Improvement Studio is an absolute must for schools that take curriculum management seriously and want to save time and frustration on assessing curricular achievements, gaps, and downfalls. Once a curriculum is developed, it should be followed in classrooms, and documented as such. Curriculum management with Curriculum Mapper allows educators to document actual instruction within classrooms to provide benchmark data for curriculum management on a monthly basis about what actually was taught and when. By giving teachers the ability to link all parts of the curriculum to standards, we are offering districts a broad understanding about the challenges that face educators and students within a curriculum. Curriculum management becomes a pinpointed activity about what worked, when, how, and why. It helps educators recognize gaps within curriculum. It is fruitless to take time to develop and write a curriculum if the proper curriculum management tools are not present to prove whether or not a curriculum is working.

StandardsScore takes curriculum management principles and wraps them into a single, easy-to-use analysis tool. By linking any worksheet, classroom activity, quiz, or test to standards, daily authentic assessment of students by teachers becomes a living, usable tool. StandardsScore assists curriculum management on a district level by calculating important trend data within classrooms and curricula. Most, if not all, districts take time to assess curricula in order to evaluate overall effectiveness and its capacity to produce desired student achievement results. It’s impossible to effectively evaluate curricula if schools do not have the curriculum management tools to look within curriculum and see where it is not working.

Collaborative Learning’s tools are, at the simplest level, curriculum management tools. Let us help you discover where a curriculum needs to be fine-tuned. Our tools will give you the information you need for effective curriculum management to improve your curricula and learning outcomes.

References:

Dietel, R. J., J. L. Herman, and R. A. Knuth. "What Does Research Say About Assessment?" What Does Research Say About Assessment? 19 Feb. 2009.

Howard, Judith. "Curriculum Development." Elon University - Organizational Web Sites. June & july 2007. Elon University. 19 Feb. 2009.

Jacobs, Heidi H. Mapping the Big Picture : Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12. Alexandria: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 1997.

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