We must align our instruction with our curriculum and with our assessment. The three must go together. This I learned from Claire Ensor and she, I think, from John Biggs. We cannot teach using CI and then turn around and assess and design curriculum with a non-CI approach. Our curriculum designs and our current assessment methods are like a three legged stool where each leg is of a different length.
How we instruct using CI, which aligns best with the research, must now begin to infuse/change/align with our curriculum design and our ways of assessing our students. We are one third of the way there! We have to change. Sharon’s angst with this shows simply that she is doing the right thing. We have to go through the curriculum and assessment redesigns, because we can’t leave them as they are. We have to make the three legged stool have legs of all the same length.
Related: https://benslavic.com/blog/this-is-your-gradebook-speaking/