1. Curriculum, Standards, and Testing
Julia, Natalie & Sarah

2. Overview Curriculum Textbooks
No Child Left Behind Law and Core Standards
Standardized Testing

3. What is Curriculum Saber Tooth Curriculum
Curriculum: the set supposed to be learned at each grade level and in each subject
Formal/Explicit: arranging classroom experiences for learning (similar to lesson planning)
Implicit/Hidden: learnings that are not always intended but emerge as students are shaped by the school culture
Null Curriculum
Extra-Curriculum

4. Who Shapes Curriculum Almost Everyone! Teachers
Formally and Informally
Parental and Community Groups
Advocate for certain courses and ban books
Students
Curricular relevance
Administrators
Government (Local, State, and Federal)
Requirement of courses
Standardized tests
Judicial decisions, financial incentives, and legislature

5. Continued Colleges and Universities
Entrance Requirements
Businesses and Professional Organizations
NEA, AFT, NAEYC, etc.
Offer teachers free subscriptions to certain materials
Publishers
Textbooks
Market to consumer demand

6. The Textbook History 1850s there were no textbooks
Had to use whatever materials students and teachers had at home
Created a need for standardized resources
Today textbooks have become the defacto curriculum

7. Continued
Textbook Adoption States: local schools choose their textbooks from a state approved list
Creates a statewide standard curriculum
The Problem
Texas, North Carolina, California, and Florida
What is published in textbooks has become more political than educational
Reading Level and Mentioning Phenomenon

9. continued PROS and Effective Ways to Use Them
Well crafted texts can motivate teachers to try new things.
Be Picky.
Supplement with outside resources.
Point out biases and allow students to be critical of their text.

10. Activity #1
Discuss the fairness/moral right of textbook adoption states to control information?
How does play into banning books?

11. No Child Left Behind Was passed in 2001
Created annual testing in reading, math, and science in grades 3-8th and once in high school
States and schools receive public “report cards”
Comparing NCLB with the ESSA: mparisonChart_2015.pdf
For instance, The new law allows states to adopt Common Core but does not require it. And, the new law leaves accountability goals almost entirely up to the states. Finally, states must still test students in the same grades but will now have flexibility in how and when they administer those tests. For example, a single annual assessment can be broken down into a series of smaller tests. There's also an emphasis on finding different kinds of tests that more accurately measure what students are learning.

12. Continue Problems Not a sound evaluation
Major gap in resources between high and low income schools
Money is now funding test corporations and charter schools rather than education
Parents, politicians, and educators complained that it was leaving more children behind

13. Common core state standards
Standards based education: Specifies what students should learn, focuses on curriculum and instruction on meeting those standards.
Common Core State Standards: The skills and content a student must master at each grade level.
They now focus on fewer topics and go into greater depth to get a better understanding.
Allows students to slow down and not rush through topics.

14. Current state map of CC adoption shows a different story- which states have since replaced or rewritten the CC standards?:
And

15. Math standards Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Look for and make use of reasoning.

16. English and language arts standards
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts.
Develop and strengthen writing
Use technology to produce and publish writing and interact and collaborate with others.

17. Activity #2
Based on what you already know, think of the pros and cons on standardized testing.
When you have something in mind, put it on the board!

18. Problems with Standardized testing
Teachers are evaluated by how students do on these tests.
One test score does not measure a student's total growth.
Students achievement is also influenced by, health, home life, school attendance, wealth or poverty, etc.
Poor students are at more of a disadvantage.
Lowers graduation rate.
Shrinks the curriculum.
Causes stress for the teacher.

20. Alternatives to standardized testing
Authentic assessment: the measurement of intellectual accomplishments that are worthwhile and significant, and actually capture the student’s progress and performance
Teachers track progress through multiple authentic assessments including…
Tests
Class participation
Portfolios
Formal exhibitions
Independent student projects
Teacher evaluations

21. Tomorrow’s Curriculum
Using and evaluating information
Critical thinking skills
Financial literacy
Physical fitness
Civics education
Creativity
Collaboration and Human Relations education
Understanding Yourself
Celebrating Others/Diversity
Encouraging Individual Talents

22. Exit slip
If you were given the job of developing a standards-based curriculum with assessment tools, what resources would you use to identify standards? What kind of tests would you use? What kind of tests would you avoid? What subjects and skills do you consider crucial?