Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum

A curriculum that (1) gives students in the same course or grade level access to the same essential learning regardless of who is teaching the class and (2) can be taught in the time allotted.

• Learning Progression

  
  

• Foundation of a Professional Learning Community

• Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum

• Essential Learning

Which one of these is a learning target?

• • By the end of the week, students will be able to define acceleration.

• I can graph supply and demand

• Students will understand the human brain.

• Develop and promote creativity and high-order thinking skills that increase the performance

A sequence of what needs to be learned (standards) across individual grade levels or courses.

• Horizontal Alignment

  
  

• Vertical Alignment

  
  

The knowledge, skills, and dispositions that have endurance and leverage, and are essential in preparing students for readiness at the next level (Reeves, 2002); the most essential learning or outcomes.

• Essential Standards

• Priority Standards

• Learning Target

• I can statements

Which of the following is a critical question of collaborative teams?

• What is it we want each student to learn?

• How will we know when each student has learned?

• How will we respond when a student experiences difficulty in learning?

• How will we enrich and extend the learning for students who are proficient?