Curriculum Vocabulary

Refers to the content, skills, and knowledge students are expected to learn through lessons, assignments, standards, and assessments

• Assessment
• Curriculum
• Common standards
• Curriculum packages

Changes that are meant to add consistency, order, and effectiveness to the curriculum between classrooms

• Collaboration
• Student Learning Objectives
• Curriculum mapping
• Alignment

The process of reviewing the curriculum to find academic gaps and any misalignments to improve the overall curriculum

• Standards based
• Curriculum packages
• Curriculum mapping
• Shared leadership

Refers to the written learning descriptions that guide core instruction within schools

• Common standards
• SPP
• Assessments
• SLO

It is also known as aligned curriculum. It is a curriculum that is organized, does not have any instructional gaps, and is the same through all classrooms in each grade level.

• Standards based
• Authentic learning
• Hidden curriculum
• Coherent curriculum

This is when a school uses standards to create the goal of their lesson and then use that goal to know what to teach their students. Students need to show complete understanding of the skill/standard before moving forward with their education.

• Alignment
• Standards based
• Every Student Succeeds Act
• Hidden curriculum

Any tool that teachers use to monitor, evaluate, and document the learning progress of their students

• Summative
• Hidden curriculum
• Assessment
• PDE

Schools purchase these programs for either an individual school or their entire district because they feel it is a higher quality curriculum than the curriculum they have. Teachers usually receive specialized trainings to guarantee that they are properly implementing the new curriculum.

• Curriculum packages
• Authentic learning
• SLO
• Curriculum

Teachers, students, parents, or community members take a leadership role to make critical decisions about the school. It helps expand the number of people making decisions about the school, instead of it just being the principal and administration.

• Standards based
• PDE
• School Performance Profile
• Shared leadership

Focuses on connecting the things students learn in school to the real world because students are then more likely to succeed later in life.

• Assessment
• Authentic learning
• Hidden curriculum
• School relationships