Curriculum Directors use Elements™. Here are what they shared with us are their top issues are and how Elements™ helps with deal with these issues.
- Instruction repository: Some teachers are better teachers on the same subject. How does one duplicate “good”? Thinkgate Elements™ allows for collaboration between individuals and provides an electronic repository for use by others.
- Workload: Increasing workloads and increasing class sizes put more and more demands on teachers. Thinkgate’s Elements™ helps streamlines the necessary overhead associated with teaching and provides more time on task.
- Professional Development: Elements™ helps them identify areas of district-wide instructional strengths/weaknesses to provide Professional Development to address the gaps.
- Funding: Data provided by Elements™ helps curriculum directors analyze program effectiveness, evaluate the success of or need for additional remedial/acceleration programs.
- Managing Pacing Guides and Alignment to Standards: Through the use of Elements™’Pacing Guides and Standards Alignment documents, the curriculum director can make sure the instructional plan of the district is easily accessible to all educators throughout the district. As these a “living” documents, any amendments that may be needed to these documents can be made in one place and instantly be updated throughout the district.
- Analysis of assessment items: Statistical analysis on assessment items and entire assessments allows the curriculum director to make any adjustments to assessments for reliability and validity purposes.