Instructional Alignment | Origin: EC102
This is a general discussion forum for the following learning topic:
Your First Year as a CTE Teacher (Part 2) --> Instructional Alignment
Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. Feel free to post questions and comments too.
It is good to have a plan for a lesson, module, and semester so that concepts can be used as building blocks for student growth and learning.
Objectives and learning assessments are the keys to integrating progressive learning experiences. The CTE students need progressive guidance and assessment to assess their growing skills and knowledge.
Seeking students to participate in creating learning objectives is very effective to get them engaged and motivated
Having a plan is good for Instruction, but being able to break out and really detail the important items will help our students excel.
I like the idea of asking students to participate in learning objectives
Curriculum and internal alignment is important.
As a CTE I haven't talked with other teachers about aligning standards horizontally or vertically. This is something I would like to look more into.
This module provided a reminder about the importance of setting goals, objectives, and outcomes and how to write them. I also liked the inclusion of Bloom's Taxonomy and the three domains of learning: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. I really like the idea of using rubrics and scoring guides to assess student skills in various categories. I would like to incorporate this as well as add in self and teacher reflections as part of the learning process.
Soft skills are very undervalued! When talking about concepts I try to tie them to real work examples that I have seen. I also ask them to reflect on their experience home, school, work, etc. where they may have seen this. I think reflection is key to encourage them to identify the concept with what they may have already experienced.
Having the student state their goals for the class on the first day is genius! Then you can review these on the last day of class.
Planning is a critical part of my daily classroom routine but I don't need to micro plan everything.
Planning is important but also helps to make sure objectives are met.
Key Learnings:
Alignment of Objectives and Outcomes:
Ensuring course objectives match industry standards and certifications.
Designing lessons that prepare students to meet both academic and practical skill outcomes.
Importance of Clear Expectations:
Setting clear, measurable objectives that align with assessments.
Communicating these objectives to students at the start of a course or training session.
Role of Assessments:
Creating assessments that accurately measure the skills and knowledge outlined in the objectives.
Using formative and summative assessments to guide both teaching and student learning.
Continuous Improvement:
Gathering feedback from students and industry to refine curriculum and teaching methods.
Incorporating real-world scenarios and hands-on training to bridge the gap between classroom learning and job performance.
I have learned the difference between goals or course outcomes and objectives. The big picture is the course outcome the roadmap to that is the objectives outlined for the course.
I feel employability skills are incredibly important in the CTE program. We are preparing students to leave our classes and head out into the workplace. They should not only have the knowledge and skills to complete tasks, but they need to know how to perform in a professional manner at all times. I also find it important that what we teach in CTE aligns with what is being taught post-secondary so we give students a step ahead when they head off to college.
I learned that in order to teach something you have to not only know how but why each step is done. Also a good way to asses if a student has learned a new skill is if they can "teach it" or fully describe it back to me. Minus the physically doing the skill part that is.
Curriculum seems to be one of those forever evolving things that never seems to be as perfect as it can be. However using what I learned in this chapter about horizontal and vertical alignment will help me ensure that my class content is relevant to each of the course learning objectives are. Additionally, goal setting is incredibly important for the same reason that Course learning outcomes are. without them the plan becomes unclear.
I like that they are giving us links to websites that we can come back to later so that we can use them in our classrooms.
Blooms Triangle and its applications for furthering and helping students understand as well as helping me understand different ways to help students and the various ways students learn as well as the process
Im new to Teaching, steel industry for 25+ years, which doesn't touch these topics. It's a learning triangle for me too!
