Comp Topic-Curriculum

To audit Standard 3 what are the documents reviewed?

1. Board policies 2. Professional development calender 3. Long-range plans 4. Individual school assessment data 5. School schedules 6. Mission statement 7. Curriculum guides 8. Communication flow charts. 9. Memos

What are the documents review for Standard 2.

1. Board policies on curriculum 2. Minutes of board meetings that discussed curriculum 3. Curriculum guides 4. Course of study 5. Scope and sequence charts 6. Curriculum planning documents 7. Textbook adoption schedules 8. Staff and student handbook 9. Staff interviews

Control Standard components

1. Board policies. 2. Long range planning 3. Information about the organizational structure. 4. Job descriptions 5. Personnel evaluations The most prevalent common indicators of control in a school system are policy, planning. and organizational charts. Well defined policies on curriculum management provide an operational framework for the design and delivery of school system's curriculum.

What are the 5 Standards of Curriculum?

1. Control Standard 2. Objective Standard 3. Connectivity and Equity Standard 4. Assessment Standard 5. Productivity Standard

What are the 2 indicators reviewed for Standard 2?

1. Curriculum guides 2. Curriculum management structure.

To audit Standard 4, what are the documents reviewed?

1. Curriculum guides 2.Evaluation reports 3. Assessment instruments 4. Student data

When auditing Standard 1- The Control Standard, what do the auditors want to know?

1. Do the written documents provide for control? 2. What is the quality of the written documents? 3. What is the use of the written documents?

Standard 3-Connectivity and Equity- what do the auditors want to know?

1. Does the district link all of its operations to the mission? 2. Are these linkages adequately monitored? 3. Do individual elements of the system-namely, staff development, teaching quality, resource allocation, and decision making-support the curriculum implementation? 4. s there equity in program delivery and district operation?

Standard 5- the Productivity Standard- What do the auditors want to know?

1. How well do facilities support the curriculum priorities? 2. What is the relationship between curriculum priorities and how resources are allocated? 3.To what degree does the school and district climate support productivity? 4. What promising practices are in place to support the curriculum priorities?

When auditing Standard 2-The Objective Standard what do the auditors want know?

1. Is there a written curriculum? 2. What is the quality of the quality of the written curriculum? 3. How is the written curriculum used?

What documents are going to be reviewed when auditing Standard 1?

1. Statements of the district's mission, philosophy, beliefs, and expectations about learning 2. The district's strategic plan and planning documents, the district's curriculum, board policies and administrative regulations related to making decisions about the curriculum. 3.Board policies and administrative regulations related to making decisions about the budget, including budget development and monitoring a random sample of 15% of the tenured and nontenured teachers. 4. The district's internal telephone directory with staff names, titles and numbers.

Standard 4-The Assessment Standard-What do the auditors want to know/find?

1. What does the district test? 2. What tests are used in the assessment program? 3. How long have the tests been used? 4. What information do the tests provide? 5. Who uses the data? 6. What decisions are made with the data?

The following operational elements should be clearly aligned with the fundamental goals of the curriculum

A board adopted mission statement The budget Goal statements in all major planning documents, including the strategic plan, deferred maintenance plans, and others Instructional, assessment, and staff development focus statements.

Guaranteed and viable curriculum

A curriculum that guarantees equal opportunity for learning for all students. Guarantees adequate time for teachers to teach content and for students to learn it. Guarantees that the curriculum being taught is the curriculum being assessed. Viable when adequate time is ensured to teach all established essential content.

1st School level factor in an instructional program.

A guaranteed and viable curriculum.

Another key relationship when auditing connectivity?

Alignment of the written, tested, and taught curriculum.

Controlling the Quality of the Curriculum.

Curriculum development consists of 6 phases. Phase 1. Plan new Phase 2. Revise Phase 3. Professional Development Phase 4. Monitor implementation Phase 5. Use what is learned in phase 4, identify changes if needed Phase 6. Determine how to incorporate changes and return to Phase 1

Auditing Equity

Money is the key to equity. The auditor should be able to chart the budget development process, including its relationship to the state budget process, site's needs, the district's policies, and the roles played by staff and community Should include general fund monies and special funds

What is PDK - Phi Delta Kappa

Phi Delta Kappa International- an organization founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Bloomington, IN. Serves more than 500,000 members in the US and abroad. The organization publishes Phi Delta Kappan, the mist cited educational journal in the United States and sponsors the annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools. Phi Delta Kappa's Curriculum Management Center offers districts the Curriculum Management Audit, the most comprehensive examination of a school district's curriculum management system that is available.

Effective curriculum management structure?

Provides a strong directional focus to facilitate the design, delivery, and assessment of the curriculum.

What is the primary focus of the Objective Standard?

The curriculum guides.

What is Curriculum?

The curriculum is the plans made for guiding learning in the schools, usually represented in retrievable documents of several levels of generality, and the acutalization of those plans in the classroom, as experienced by the learners and as recorded by an observer; those experiences take place in a learning environment that also influences what is learned.

What is the primary focus of the Productivity Standard?

The hurdles and bridges from the board to the school site. This standard examines the ways in which facilities, budgeting, climate, and promising practices have an impact on productivity at the school site.

3. Connectivity and Equity Standard

The school system demonstrates internal connectivity and rational equity in its program development.

2. Objectivity Standard

The school system has established clear and valid objectives for students.

5. Productivity Standard

The school system has improved productivity.

1. Control Standard

The school system is able to demonstrate its control of resources, programs, and personnel.

4. Assessment Standard

The school system uses results from system-designed and/or adopted assessments to adjust, improve, or terminate ineffective practices or programs.

What is the focus of Standard 4?

To look for a designed comprehensive system of assessment that uses valid measurement tools that indicate how well students are achieving identified grade level expectations and course level expectations.

The foundation of Standard 3

Understanding the school district' defining mission.