Teachscape Curriculum Suite
Comprehensive Curriculum Management. Online.
Schools frequently struggle for consistency between the prescribed curriculum, the purchased curriculum resources, and the taught curriculum. But if schools are to be highly successful, it's imperative that all teachers have a consistent understanding of, and high expectations for, what students need to know and be able to do. Teachers need a shared understanding of what the standards mean, the skills involved, and the level of rigor at which they will be assessed. Further, teachers benefit from seeing the larger picture of how their teaching today translates into the basis for instruction in subsequent grades.
The Teachscape Curriculum Suite is a set of tools that enable districts to ensure that standards are commonly understood by faculty, that curriculum is aligned to those standards, is vertically articulated to ensure coverage across grades, and is consistently assessed across all classrooms. The Curriculum Suite also manages instructional pacing guides for each course and grade level, as well as test blueprints for state, benchmark, and formative assessments. This Suite also provides tools to build and share instructional units and lessons within and across districts.
The Teachscape Curriculum Suite
- extends the alignment and pacing work done by the district to include vertical articulation, and detailed unpacking of skills and concepts for all standards in the four core subject areas and English language development;
- provides for instant dissemination of curriculum modifications to the whole district;
- increases opportunities to learn by identifying relevant lessons within existing materials;
- decrease time for classroom review due to student mobility within the district;
- increases collaboration among teachers around instruction;
- shares units and lessons across district from a central repository using a common framework;
- integrates with the Teachscape Assessment Suite and Teachscape Professional Learning Suite to ensure a comprehensive and consistent approach to instructional improvement.
Key Features. Important Benefits.
Functions- Ensures alignment of skills and concepts to standards
- Enables alignment of standards to testing
- Manages pacing of concepts and skills
- Tracks pacing of standards
- Delivers a syllabus of concept and skill lessons
- Includes an instructional calendar
- Defines test blueprints of state and district assessments
- Lays out a K-12 scope and sequence of skills and concepts
- Provides a repository of resources, lessons, and units
- Enables the jurying of lessons with curriculum developers and reviewers
- Manages queues for identifying who will review and approve lessons
- Monitors pages for viewing submission and approvals of lessons
- Facilitates the submission of lesson plans by teachers
- Flags misalignment between curriculum, standards, and testing
- Notes pacing to actual time spent teaching a skill or concept
- Provides a gap analysis between grade levels (vertical articulation)
- Highlights pacing misalignment with testing
- Tracks frequency of lessons taught by standard
- Identifies missing standards
- Provides an audit of lessons by standard (number of opportunities to learn)
- Delivers alignment reports by course
- Provides pacing reports by course
