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Dramatically reduce time spent mapping curriculum with the Auto-Map feature.
Yesterday: hours spent recalling plans taught, selecting appropriate standards, and documenting actual classroom curriculum.
Today! Instruction Planner with Auto-Map™ captures curriculum delivery as teachers confirm their instruction. With the touch of a button, curriculum maps are populated with a teacher’s actual classroom curriculum -- formatted, aligned to standards, with resources attached.
- Automatically capture actual curriculum delivery
- Decrease teacher time formalizing maps
- Improve data accuracy and authenticity
- Capture curriculum in real time
- Have more time for collaboration and curriculum refinement
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Improve teaching strategies through reflective planning and instruction!
Instruction Planner supports and drives reflective classroom instruction. Daily, teachers can adjust strategies and plans aligned to specific district or school methods, keeping instruction fresh and viable. Districts and schools can track all aspects of instruction by generating reports that synthesize strategies, resources, and accommodations.
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Easily align curriculum & instruction to adopted designs!
Use UbD, Madeline Hunter, Ruby Payne, Charlotte Danielson, or your own instructional template to formulate plans for instruction that represent the teaching style your district or school knows best. Track formative information and standardize the development of instruction units across all grade levels and subject areas. With Instruction Planner, teachers can start with very basic instructional designs; the system allows a user to grow within a specific design, as well as move in his or her own direction with a tailored design. Districts and schools will see increased professional dialogue as teachers collaborate to develop units of instruction.
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Easily identify and integrate standards with instruction.
Standards-based instruction is a critical element of a viable and guaranteed curriculum. Instruction Planner easily links your instructional plan and operational curriculum to standards. Standards are easily identified, and can be customized. Eliminate the hours previously used to search for just the right standard and benchmark with the ability to search for specific words to generate only relative standards. No more deconstructing manually! No more shuffling through numerous strands! Now, with a few clicks of the mouse, appropriate standards and benchmarks will be linked to your plan, your assignments, and your operational curriculum. Districts and schools are able to easily choose strands, or attach custom standards, that reflect their needs and provide proactive reporting based on collected data.
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Support Effective Faculty from Day One on the job!
Provide new teachers with a day-by-day instruction planning guide -- linked to standards, district resources, assessments, as well as your Master Curriculum! Ensure a guaranteed and viable curriculum in every classroom, including those with your newest instructors. New faculty members are more comfortable, quickly motivated, and encouraged by immediate success.
As part of the Curriculum Improvement Suite, Instruction Planner helps new teachers acclimate quickly as districts and schools gain fresh and vibrant educators while lowering their training and mentoring costs.
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Close curriculum gaps!
Instruction Planner's unique, real-time collection of the classroom curriculum allows districts and schools to more accurately identify and fix curriculum gaps while aligning curriculum.
Closing the curriculum gap is the first step to closing achievement gaps. Alignment of curricula is required for a successful school and defines the basis of instruction. The level of alignment characterizes the levels of equity and effectiveness in classrooms, as well as drives a viable and guaranteed curriculum.
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Improve Curriculum from District to Classroom to Student Coursework
Instruction Planner is the Classroom module of the Curriculum Improvement Studio, fully integrated with the new Curriculum Mapper XT, and StandardsScore.
As part of the entire Curriculum Improvement Studio, Instruction Planner ensures that your master curriculum is delivered and exemplified in your classrooms. Use Curriculum Mapper to document your master curriculum and capture, with Auto-Mapping, the classroom curriculum from Instruction Planner. Capture the learned curriculum through coursework in StandardsScore, measuring in real time the success of the curriculum on student learning.
The Curriculum Improvement Studio is the most powerful curriculum management, refinement, and enhancement system available, enabling schools to enrich curricula, differentiate instruction, and improve learning outcomes through real-time formative data.
