Instructional Alignment | Origin: EC102
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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.
The employability rubric is very helpful for me.
Making sure to plan instruction so the classroom content flows better. Incorporating more field trips and invites to outsiders is a great resource. Students can ask questions and get a better sense of their career of choice.
When planning, remember to plan towards your students future working environment and expectations their employer will have.
Important to have plans in place when teaching bu also the ability to alter those plans if needed.
ensure your planning is adaptable
I’ve learned that this helps students stay focused and succeed, especially in hands-on CTE classes. I plan to use backward planning—starting with what I want students to learn, then building lessons and assessments around those goals.
In this module, I learned about Bloom's Taxonomy and how it can be a useful framework when writing course objectives. I plan to apply this knowledge by using action oriented verbs from the taxonomy to create clear, measurable, and developmentally appropriate objectives for my students.
Additionally, I gained a better understanding of the differences between goals, objectives, and outcomes.
National Certification is a test of the alignment of different nationally accredited programs. It is important that curriculum has alignment with this ultimate goal and alignment can be assessed, in part, by outcomes measures relative to the national averages in certification testing. Building and assessing alignment within courses and between courses and national certification exams encompasses scope of practice.
Curriculum needs to stay up to date to ensure that our students receive the most relevant and practice information about the field they are going into.
Curriculum needs to be relevant to the industry credentials.
I like the asking students to participate in learning objectives, leaving room for them to help the lessons grow in a way that helps engage them.
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.
