In this article published recently in Education Week Jackie Lain, President of Learning List, shares a two-step process to determine whether your instructional materials are propelling your students’ success or undermining it.
As Jackie explains, students cannot learn what they are not taught. If your students’ test scores reflect a pattern of low performance on questions associated with a standard or group of standards, use the two-step process to determine whether your materials may be to blame. If your materials do not address or the citations that were assigned are not aligned to those standards, then your students did not learn all of the knowledge and skills those standards require and their test scores reflect the materials’ deficits.
Access the full article for details and see previous posts to this blog highlighting the importance of alignment of instructional materials to standards are:
Are Your Resources Supporting Your Efforts to Close the Achievement Gap?
Are You Discussing Instructional Material Alignment in Your PLC?