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Application: School Improvement Tool—Curriculum and Instruction

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Application: School Improvement Tool—Curriculum and Instruction

For this application, review your results from the School Improvement Tool for Curriculum and Instruction and reflect on where you feel you can make improvements. Consult the Curriculum and Instruction indicators for “Challenged” and “Engaged” below, as needed.

Curriculum and Instruction Indicators
Our teachers use active learning strategies, such as cooperative learning and project-based learning.
Our school offers a range of opportunities for students to contribute to and learn within the community at large, including service learning, internships, apprenticeships, and volunteer projects.
Our school uses curriculum-related experiences, such as field trips and outreach projects, to complement and extend our curriculum and instruction.
Each student in our school has access to a range of options and choices for a wide array of extracurricular and cocurricular activities that reflect student interests, goals, and learning profiles.
Our curriculum and instruction promote students’ understanding of the real world, global relevance, and application of learned content.
Our teachers use a range of inquiry-based, experiential-learning tasks and activities to help all students deepen their understanding of what they are learning and why they are learning it.
Our staff works closely with students to help them monitor and direct their own progress.

Curriculum and Instruction Indicators

Retrieved from WholeChildEducation.org (2013)

Part One: In the box below, reflect on your score from the School Improvement Tool in relation to Curriculum and Instruction. Which areas does your school need to improve upon, and what are some ways you can address those areas?

Part Two: Implement the changes you discussed in Part One and periodically chart their effectiveness in the box below. The given time frames of three months, six months, and one year are just guides; change them to better suit the needs of your classroom, school, or district.

Indicator / Change / Results After Three Months / Results After Six Months / Results After One Year