Collaborative Alignment Support

Team

Curriculum StandardsAlignment

Welcome

Career Pathway Teams:–Academic Instructors–Career Technical Instructors–Site Administrators–Postsecondary Instructors– Industry Partners

CAST Process

Course AssessmentAcademic/CTE ContentStudent Learning

OutcomesSelf-Reflection

ProcedureStandards Alignment

– Identify the standards– Examine

•Course•Activities and Assessments•Depth of Instruction

– Validate areas of alignment– Utilize the information for

integration and curriculum design

Collaborative Alignment Template

Instructional Unit with Subunits

Formative Assessment (Activities) Summative Assessment (Culminating Activities)

Standards: Academic/CTE

Depth of Instruction–Mention

A specific standard or portion of a standard is introduced and content vocabulary may be defined.

–ReinforceA specific standard or portion of a standard is reintroduced or addressed but not fully taught or assessed.

–TeachA specific standard or portion of a standard is taught providing thorough instruction, reinforcement, practice and application.

Biology Standard

10e. Students know why an individual with a compromised immune system (for example a person with AIDS) may be unable to fight off and survive infections by microorganisms that are usually benign

Mention

As you are all aware, AIDS is an epidemic, rapidly spreading disease through the heterosexual population in various regions of Africa. The problem with the disease is that it attacks the immune system.

Reinforce

Today’s lesson will examine autoimmune diseases such as AIDS, leukemia, and mononucleosis. We will discuss how pathogens begin to attack the immune system.

Teach

In this unit, we will examine the microbiology behind autoimmune diseases and how they disrupt normal biological functions.

Curriculum Alignment Template– Instructional Unit with

Subunits– Formative Assessment

•Activities

– Summative Assessment •Culminating Activities

– Standards•Academic•Career•Other

Human Services Pathway Standard

A5.3 Understand the fundamentals of conducting a survey to collect and analyze data, including the basic mathematics involved

Academic Connections

After collecting your data write a three-page research paper. For this paper, you are required to:

1.Write clearly and concisely 2.Write in the active voice 3.Use proper transitions from

one paragraph to the next

Academic Connections

For this portion of the assignment, you are required to:

1.Glance at graphs, pie charts and figures and be aware of alternative visuals used to communicate crucial information about depression

2. Interpret and present data

Academic Connections

You will organize a PowerPoint presentation that will cover the following:

1.Brief background of the population to be studied

2.Rationale for the topic 3.Recommendations based on

data 4.Applications and connections in

meeting the needs of that community

Resources http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/fd/ http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ct/ http://www.health-careers.org/ http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/ http://www.acteonline.org http://www.calcp.org http://www.cccco.edu/divisions/esed/sb70/

sb70.htm http://www.careerclusters.org/ http://www.cacareerzone.org http://www.statewidepathways.org/ http://casn.berkeley.edu/ http://cteonline.org http://www.ca-clearinghouse.net/ http://www.bused.org/

Contacts

Carla Cherry – Kern Resource Center– ccherry@khsd.k12.ca.us– (661) 827-3266

Cindy Beck – CDE– cbeck@cde.ca.gov– (916) 319-0470

California Career Technical Education

Standards Adopted by the State Board

of Education on May 11, 2005

URL address to access www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/fd/

Career Technical Education Framework for California Public

Schools Adopted by the State Board

of Education on January 10, 2007

URL address to access www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/fd/

Contact Information

Carla CherryKern Resource Center

ccherry@khsd.k12.ca.us(661) 827-3266