The Buzz About the Standards Alignment Process
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Collaborative Alignment Support Team Curriculu m Standards Alignment
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CAST (Collaborative Alignment Support Team) How does a group of educators and industry professionals come together effectively in the process of aligning curriculum with their individual standards? This session will demonstrate how to use a Collaborative Alignment Template and how this template is designed to align instructional units with the Model Curriculum Standards – both Academic Content Standards and Career Technical Education Standards. During this session participants will also work through the process that allows for building of future curriculum utilizing the Collaborative Alignment Template. Flash drives with the template, the California Standards and Framework, as well as aligned curriculum samples and other resources will be handed out to participants.
Transcript of The Buzz About the Standards Alignment Process
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– [email protected]– (661) 827-3266
Cindy Beck – CDE– [email protected]– (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/
