Objectives and Goals

Curriculum and classroom instruction must reflect high academic standards and incorporate real-world applications. Early mastery of core foundational academic skills, crucial to the educational success of Texas students, along with high expectations, a challenging curriculum, effective instructional programs, and career extensions should enhance student performance.

Texas Education Code Objectives for curriculum apply to the CLC curriculum: (1) Objective 4: "A well-balanced and appropriate curriculum will be provided to all students"; Objective 8: "Educators will keep abreast of the development of creative and innovative techniques in instruction and administration using those techniques as appropriate to improve student learning"; Objective 9: "Technology will be implemented and used to increase the effectiveness of student learning, instructional management, staff development, and administration."

In addition to No Child Left Behind legislation and the National Education Goals 2000 for curriculum and assessment, which proposes that "all children will be competent in core foundational subjects" and "first in the world in math and science," the Curriculum Leadership Cooperative aspires to the following goals of curriculum development:

  1. The curriculum development process will allow for the interaction of classroom teachers with those serving in development roles. This interaction will allow teachers to integrate curriculum ideas and materials into planning and teaching so that they will have ownership of the curriculum guides.
  2. The development process will be open-ended so that curriculum documents can be refined and updated as needed and can become more comprehensive.
  3. Curriculum development will align the written, taught, and the tested curricula to ensure a high percentage of learner outcomes.
  4. The curriculum, for a course or grade level subject, will define that course in a finite set of objectives which will be few in number, broad in scope, and aimed at developing in students an integrated understanding of that course or subject.
  5. The curriculum documents (resource packets) will be a mechanism for collecting, organizing, and sharing teachers' effective classroom practices and ideas related to accomplishing course objectives.
  6. The curriculum documents will address the development of students' thinking skills. They will define the course or subject for teachers and students and will include the development of student thinking as a priority.
  7. The curriculum documents will be designed to reduce teachers' paperwork in linking daily lesson plans, student instructional objectives and Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), and in documenting mastery of curriculum objectives.
  8. Curriculum documents will be as comprehensive as possible to provide teachers with quality information to help in the selection of instructional activities, strategies, resources, and assessment alternatives.
  9. Curriculum documents will address the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in a format that is easy for classroom teachers to use.
  10. Curriculum documents will be differentiated to meet the needs of special population learners.
   

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