 DDESS Curriculum
A school's curriculum is the written plan outlining what students
will be taught. In a standards-based
system like ours,
the curriculum is aligned to our academic standards.
In keeping with our mission to provide
an exemplary education that inspires and prepares all
our students for success in a dynamic, global environment,
the DoDEA
Curriculum Content Standards and the Community
Strategic Plan (CSP) provide the framework for academic excellence. Our
curriculum translates the standards into a sequenced series
of statements about what students will learn through their school
experiences.
The DoDEA curriculum follows a six-year Curriculum
Development and Assessment Adoption Cycle to continuously
assess needs for improvement and to implement curriculum
or program changes to meet the goals of the CSP.
Mapping the Way to Success for ALL Students
The communication and consistent use of standards for curriculum
planning, instruction, and assessment leads to more focused
ways of ensuring that all students meet or exceed the academic
standards.
DoDEA developed a Quality Indicator
Map to
provide a common view of the the multi-disciplined best practices
necessary to help all students reach the standards.
Like a road map that shows different ways of getting from one
place to another, the Quality Indicator Map identifies major
components impacting the implementation of standards-based programs
and then describes best practices that support high quality
implementation and student achievement.
Curriculum is the program used to prepare students to meet
content standards and is therefore one of the four clusters
of the Quality Indicator Map. Each cluster
is made up of several components that provide a broad
description of the best practices within the cluster.
Curriculum Cluster Components.
- Standards provide
the foundation for the design, content, and delivery
of instruction.
- The teacher possesses content knowledge, an understanding
of its relation to standards, and a facility in adapting
content to allow all students access to standards.
- The teacher promotes diversity as an integral part of
the curriculum.
- Approved and appropriate materials correlated
to standards are used for instruction.
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