Alabama Curriculum Guides
The Curriculum Guides provide a series of prerequisite and enabling skills that may be taught to help students access grade-level content standards that were missed in an earlier grade. As curriculum committees develop the guides, state assessment resources, such as the item specifications for the Alabama High School Graduation Exam, are used to help teachers more fully understand the connections among content standards, classroom instruction, and state assessment. Teachers report that they use the Curriculum Guides to pre-asses skills to discover the content students do and do not know. If a small group of students, for example, requires additional knowledge/skills to understand grade-level content, the general and special education teachers can plan classroom instruction accordingly. Additionally, general and special education teachers use the Alabama Curriculum Guides to match student needs with evidence-based practices such as collaborative teaching, peer tutoring, and flexible instructional grouping. Alabama teachers report that the Curriculum Guides have helped to address the achievement gap often experienced by students with disabilities in general education classrooms.
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