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Curriculum alignment

Schools may improve curriculum quality by bringing teaching
activities and course expectations with learning standards and other
school course a practice called “curriculum mapping.”

Curriculum philosophy

Curriculum reform may occur through the adoption of a

different philosophy or model of teaching by a school or educator.
Schools that follow the Expeditionary Learning model.

Curriculum resources

New curriculum resources require schools to invest in

professional development that helps teachers use the new resources
effectively, given that simply providing new resources without
investing in teacher education and training may fail to bring about
desired improvements.

Curriculum standardization

The strategies used to promote more standardized curricular
can vary widely from state to state or school to school, the general
goal is to increase teaching quality through greater curricular
consistency.

Curriculum-in-use

The formal curriculum comprises things in textbooks, and
content and concepts in the district curriculum guides. The
curriculum-in-use is the actual curriculum that is delivered and

presented by the teacher.

Received curriculum

Those that students take out of classrooms, those concepts and
content that are truly learned and remembered.