2. What is Curricular Vertical
Alignment?
“Planning and implementing the curriculum
sequence from one grade level to the next in
grades Pre-Kindergarten to grade twelve”
(Bergman, Calzada, LaPointe, Lee, and
Sullivan).
Bergman, Calzada, LaPointe, Lee, and
Sullivan also state that “Vertical collaboration,
or planning together with teachers across
grade levels, surfaces as requisite for
success.”
3. Vertical Allignment
Will the teachers find vertical alignment
successful?
Will sharing with other grade levels help the
teachers and benefit the students?
After we align the Numbers and Operations
standards will teachers want to continue with
the other standards?
4. With Vertical Alignment I want to
Look at…
Teacher Knowledge
Getting Teachers to want to Change
Sharing Ideas with each other
Communicating more
During planning involving teachers from
surrounding grade levels.
Teachers feeling as if they are coming out of
our monthly math meetings with useful
information.
5. Teacher Knowledge
Just because a teacher knows a lot about
math does not make them a good math
teacher.
“Effective mathematics teaching requires
understanding that students know and need to
learn and then challenging and supporting
them to learn well” (Stump).
I want out teachers to learn from one another.
6. Why Should Teachers want to do
this?
“When teachers are more comfortable with
teaching a particular topic, they are more likely
to allow for student questioning and
discussion, an essential feature of inquiry.
(National Research Council, 2000).
Darling-Hammond, Bullmaster, and Cobb state
that “Teacher educators learn more about
teaching as they teach collaboratively with
veteran teachers”
7. How does this Benefit the
Students?
Transitioning
Vocabulary
Academic Success
Schielack and Seeley state how “Aligning major
ideas across grades 3-8 efficiently addresses the
curricular aspects of students transitioning from
elementary to middle school mathematics.”
8. My Goals:
I want teachers to feel as if our monthly math
meetings are useful and helpful. Not a waste
of their time or just another meeting they have
to go to.
After the first year I want to expand and have
surrounding middle school math teachers
come over and join our meetings.
Most importantly I want our teachers to grow
from this experience which will in return benefit
our students.