Curriculum Apprisal

Is national policy stated?

Are the “big ideas” obvious?

Are objectives stated as observable behaviors?

Are common core skills stated?

Are the necessary component skills (preskills) taught?

Is there a balance between computation instruction and problem-solving instruction?

Strategy: Are the strategy explicitly identified?

Scaffolded Instruction: Is teacher modeling specified?

Are students activated? Are students involved?

Example: Is there a sufficient practice examples?