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Constructive Teaching Through the Deconstruction of Standards

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Constructive Teaching Through Deconstructing the Standards

Curriculum Alignment*

The degree to which a curriculum’s scope and sequence matches a testing program’s evaluation measures thus ensuring that teachers will cover the material on high stakes assessments. Curriculum mapping is a process to insure curriculum alignment.

Begin with vertical articulation, move to horizontal articulation, and make connections across the content area.

*Information sources: Fenwick English; Heidi Hayes Jacobs