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Assessments should be an authentic part of the teaching journey, helping educators understand where their students are and how to facilitate their growth. Here's how aligning curriculum, assessments, and professional learning can better support teacher practice and student learning.

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Assessments should an authentic part of the teaching journey, helping educators understand where their students are and how to facilitate their growth. When teachers have to stop in the middle of their curriculum and switch to focus on something that feels separate from their lessons, it disrupts the flow of the classroom. Here's why aligning curriculum, assessments, and professional learning can better support teacher practice and student learning.

Assessments should be an integrated part of the learning experience that blends in authentically with what teachers are already doing. It shouldn’t be a compliance exercise, but rather a tool to help educators gauge exactly where students are in their learning journey and to inform how to help them excel.     Here's why curriculum, assessments, and professional learning need to be better aligned to truly serve teacher practice and student learning. 

Curriculum, assessments, and professional learning need to be aligned closer to better serve teacher practice and student learning. Here's how. 

Assessments should be an integrated part of the learning experience that blends in authentically with what teachers are already doing. It shouldn’t be a compliance exercise, but rather a tool to help educators gauge exactly where their students are and how to facilitate their growth. Here's why curriculum, assessments, and professional learning need to be better aligned to truly serve teacher practice and student learning.

Regardless of the implementation, there needs to be alignment when it comes to making the program work. Curriculum, assessments, and professional learning need to be aligned closer to better serve teacher practice and student learning. Here's how.

While policymakers and #edleaders are rightly focused on using high quality curriculum, improving student learning is about so much more than curriculum. What if we used high quality #instructional materials as a doorway to transforming entire schools systems? Elizabeth Chu and Molly Gurny explain in our recent blog. What do you think is possible? Share your ideas in the comments. #edchat https://lnkd.in/gvUwrDVj

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This article ‘Why lesson planning is important for student success’ discusses 3 important aspects of lesson planning and poses a series of key questions to consider.   * Curriculum knowledge and understanding  The importance of knowing the mathematics core concepts and ideas to be addressed in a lesson and how they relate to learning progressions in the curriculum. * Lesson structure  How lesson planning enables the effective use of classroom time, facilitates the structure and flow of a lesson, and outlines pedagogical approaches and activities. * Collaborative planning   The benefits of collaborative planning for teachers and the school learning environment.    Lesson planning is a practical way to realise the aims of Australian Curriculum: Mathematics Version 9 and work toward successful outcomes for students of mathematics. Education Services Australia (ESA) Mathematics Hub has a section of articles on planning, pedagogies, teaching strategies and approaches to support the for Australian Foundation to Year 10 teachers. #mathematics #lessonplanning #studentsuccess #curriculum #teachers https://lnkd.in/gBu6YxNC