Implementing Innovative Curriculum and Instructional Practices in Classrooms and Schools

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Implementing Innovative Curriculum and Instructional Practices in Classrooms and Schools

Lessons Learned

10. Institutionalization of Innovative Curriculum and Instruction Requires Ongoing Attention

Guided and Intensive professional development and monitoring

Long-Term sustainability

9. Fidelity of Implementation of Innovative Curriculum Efforts Requires Monitoring

Documentation matters

Curriculum needs to be monitored

Significant part of the curriculum

8. Professional Development. on Curriculum Materials Enhances Faithful Implementation

Advanced intsructional practices

differentiation strategies

Teacher is the key

7. Use of Curriculum-Based Assessments Documents Authentic Learning

Measure aspects of content, concept and process learning

Essential component for measuring effectivess of a curriculum

6. Promising Learners From Low-Income Backgrounds and Students of Color Benefit From High-Powered Curriculum

Curriculum must be accompanied by faithful use of teaching-learning models

William and Mary units are effective with special population of promising learners

5. High-Level Curriculum May Be Used Successfully with all Learners

Title 1 classrooms are good with nongifted learners

Flexible grouping techniques

Scaffolding

proper differentiation

4. Student Exposure to Repeated Models Over Time Enhances Student Achievement and Learning Transfer

Research-based, packaged curriculum

Teaching and Learning Models

3. Curriculum Development Work for High-End Learning Requires Teacher Commitment and Collaboration

Careful instructional decision making

Curriculum that will significantly enhance student achievement

Discipline-specific expertise

2. Curriculum Development

Units are revised and distributed nationally

Units are field-tested

Revisions based on triangulation of the feedback

Pilot the entire unit

Review of relevant research

Standards and curriculum reform research

1: Curriculum Design

Metacognition and reflection components

Broad-based concept

Accelerated reading and advanced resources

graphic organizers

Inquiry-based, meaningful, hands-on and minds-on experiences

Higher-level thinking and reasoning

activities

questioning

Authentic assessments

process

concept

content

Learning goals and anticipated outcomes

Creating a System of Learning

must support recognition of the climate of innovation

leadership that is knowledgeable and proactive about the relationship

staff development that is both data-driven and needs-based

Ongoing assessment that results in multiple areas and modalities

Importance of Innovations in Schools

Examine the adequacy of current practices in ways that are healthy

Become more aware of educationla practices

Underscores effort, persistence and practice

Energize all staff in pro-active ways

Catalyze teachers and principals

Role of Leadership in Supporting Innovative Practices

accepting and creating challenge

action

intention

reflection

building learning communities

overall management of learning centered environments

integrity and helping people

providing teachers tools

making teacher stronger

attend overall growth

multiple realities of working

create meaning

organizational structure

task commitment skills

human relation skills