Making Quality Curriculum Central to Your Pathways

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Making Quality Curriculum Central to Your Pathways

• Penni Hudis, DirectorPathway and Curriculum
  Developmentwww.ConnectEdCalifornia.org

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Session Goals

• Introduce and describe
• A different approach to curriculum quality
• Curriculum quality, curriculum integration, and
  the Multiple Pathways approach
• Principles underlying curriculum quality in the
  Certification tool
• Some of the available curricula

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Why Focus on Curriculum Quality?

• Creating quality curricula is hard to do.
• Changing school structure is not enough.
• The stakes for students and schools are high.
• Every pathway component involves curriculum.

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Quality Design Principles

• Where do they come from?
• Theory and research
• Classroom observation
• Classroom experience
• Expert input
• Mission

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What Does Quality Look Like? Two Underlying Goals

• Prepare students for both college and career
• Serve students with varying abilities, interests,
  and aspirations

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Quality Design Principles

• Prepare students for both college and career
• Deliver a standards-based, college-preparatory
  curriculum through authentic applications
• Incorporate integrated, sequential work-based
  learning
• Leverage business, higher education, and
  community contributions
• Address 21st Century Workforce and Learning
  Skills

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Quality Design Principles

• Serve students with varying abilities,
  interests, and aspirations
• Avoid tracking
• Incorporate range of academic and non-academic
  supports
• Honor students choices

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Quality Criteria for Curriculum and Instruction

• Engaged learning academic core
• Standards-aligned curriculum
• College-preparatory curriculum
• Real-world relevance

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Quality Criteria for Curriculum and Instruction

• Engaged learning technical core
• Demanding technical component
• Standards-aligned curriculum
• Skill demonstration and certification

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Quality Criteria for Curriculum and Instruction

• Engaged learning integrated curriculum
• Multidisciplinary, integrated curriculum
• Horizontal alignment
• Vertical alignment
• Habits of mind/SCANS/21st Century skills
• Citizenship

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Quality Criteria for Curriculum and Instruction

• Engaged learning instruction and assessment
• Project-based approach
• Authentic assessment
• Balanced assessment

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Quality Criteria for Curriculum and Instruction

• Engaged learning work-based learning
• Design reflects significant industry and educator
  input
• Connected to academic and technical coursework

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Quality Criteria for Curriculum and Instruction

• Engaged learning support services and
  personalization
• Differentiated instruction
• Academic intervention

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Integrated CurriculumIts the Glue
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Continuum of Integration
BEGINNING INTERMEDIATE
ADVANCED
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Single Subject Integration
BEGINNING INTERMEDIATE
ADVANCED
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Parallel or Paired Integration
BEGINNING INTERMEDIATE
ADVANCED
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Interrelated Integration
BEGINNING INTERMEDIATE
ADVANCED
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Conceptual Integration
BEGINNING INTERMEDIATE
ADVANCED
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Curricula Available

• Core technical courses
• Integrated curriculum units linking technical and
  academic courses
• Career-themed academic support curricula
• Multi-themed, cross disciplinary curricula

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Core Technical Curricula

• Engineering (PLTW, Inc.)
• Finance (NAF)
• Hospitality Tourism (NAF)
• Information Technology (NAF)

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Core Technical Curricula Under Development

• Biomedical and Health Sciences (PLTW, Inc.)
• Healthcare (ConnectEd and NAF)
• Law and Justice (EDC and ConnectEd)
• Media and Digital Design (EDC and ConnectEd)

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Integrated Curricula

• Healthcare (ConnectEd)
• Engineering (ConnectEd and NAF)
• Media and Digital Design (EDC and ConnectEd)
• Law and Justice (ConnectEd and EDC)

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Career-Themed, Academic Support Curricula

• Pre-algebra for Engineering Pathways
• Algebra I for Engineering Pathways

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Multi-Themed, Cross-Disciplinary Curricula

• Ford PAS (EDC)
• Green Technology part of Ford PAS

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The Bottom Line on Quality Curriculum in this
Initiative

• Fidelity of implementing the full Multiple
  Pathways approach is essential to assessing the
  effectiveness and success of this initiative.
• Quality curriculum is one of the keys to fidelity
  of implementation.