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Curriculum and instruction is the heart and soul of any school system. The learning goals and underlying assumptions of the curriculum determine the local standards, classroom objectives, units, methods, and strategies that become the day to day activity of students and teachers. Curriculum defines students' academic content, the context in which students learn, the focus and format of learning, student assessment, and student expectations. Curricular goals and objectives (standards) provide the fundamental meaning and significance to a child's education. In an information rich, technologically changing, complex world, curriculum programs must constantly be reexamined. Schools can no longer afford to use a cursory, textbook driven model for curriculum design. It is our belief that District 122 must continually reassess and redesign its curriculum program to meet the instructional needs of our growing school community. Curriculum guides must continually be updated by reviewing current local standards and how they align with state and national standards. Delivery of instruction for a diverse group of learners must also be examined, as technological tools become an everyday part of instruction, providing different modalities of learning for all students. In addition, accountability pertaining to student mastery of local and state standards must be addressed in curriculum design through the use of a variety of assessments. Curriculum adoptions involve all the aforementioned components. A curriculum adoption plan supports the curriculum process of reviewing current guides, developing assessments that examine student mastery of local and state standards, and providing instructional materials, both textbooks and software, to creates an optimum learning environment for District 122's students. In addition, instructional pedagogy is evaluated during adoption periods to ensure best practices are implemented at the classroom level in conjunction with new materials. |
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