Curriculum alignment and organization

1. Curriculum alignment
and organization
By: Kriza Garcia

2. Curriculum alignment and organization:
• Steps in designing
• Curriculum Alignment

3. Steps in designing:

4. Current curriculum theory views the ends sought as
desired changes in the behavior of pupils, “behavior”
being used in the broad sense to include thinking,
feeling, and acting.
A.SELECTION OF OBJECTIVES

5. B. SELECTION OF CONTENT: Guidelines
Prioritize: select what is basically needed in specific
circumstances
Balance: Ensure that the content is properly balanced in terms
of time and resources available

6. Comprehensiveness: It should include all the necessary details
needed by a specific learner.
Completeness: It should properly cater for all the three domains.
Sequence: It should be properly sequenced i.e. simple to complex,
known to unknown and spiraled.

7. The learning experience must give students
the opportunity to practice the desired
behavior.
C. SELECTION OF LEARNING EXPERIENCE

8. Factors in Selecting Learning Experiences
Validity: this refers to the relevance of the stated learning experience to the
stated goals of the curriculum;
Relevance to life: learning experience must be related to the learner’s real life
situations in and out of school;
Variety: learning experiences must cater to the needs of different types of
learners by providing different types of experiences;
Suitability: learning experiences must be suitable to the learners present state of
learning and characteristics:

9. D. GRADE PLACEMENT
It is the stage of designing where you
should think of what grade level is fit in
the curriculum that you’ve made.

10. E. TIME ALLOTMENT
As curriculum writer, we must determine how
long will be the period of our curriculum. This is
to ensure properly balanced in terms of time and
resources available.

11. CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT

12. Curriculum alignment is a process of ensuring
congruency among:
The Written Curriculum
The Taught Curriculum
The Tested Curriculum

13. Purposes of curriculum alignment:
 To provide a clear understanding of the standards at each grade
level and subject area
 To assure instruction at each grade level and subject area is
on target
 To assure all students have an equitable education based on high
standards (national, state and local).

14. Two forms of curriculum alignment:

15. Vertical Alignment
Curriculum maps– detailed representations of the abilities and content that
must be covered in each course – help our teachers ensure that students in different
classes learn the same things.

16. For example:
The Math department might decide to do a focus unit on problem analysis in Math 10. Each
teacher would make sure their students had a firm understanding of how to interpret written
problems before students move on to Math 11. This ensures that students are at the same
level and it prevents unnecessary repetition or overlap of concepts.

18. Horizontal Alignment
Cross-grade alignment is when a certain theme or tool
is used in different subjects and courses at the same time.

19. For example:
Students may be studying Greek mythology in English, painting Greek deities in
Art class and applying the Pythagorean theorem in Math. Alternatively, students
might learn about online databases and use this newfound tool to research
presentations for Science and History classes.

20. TWO TYPES OF CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT

21. Macro alignment
is large scale and focuses on ensuring that the
curriculum, instructional practices, and
assessments are all aligned.

22. Micro alignment
Regardless of your curriculum-design framework,
your map-unit template most likely includes: what
students will know, what students will do, a variety of
assessments, and the incorporation of state or other
standards. Micro alignment is the alliance of these four
elements.

23. What do we align?
 Standards
 Curriculum
 Teaching
 Evaluation

24. Thank you!

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