Policies For Curriculum Development
Ashanti C. Chambers
Grand Canyon University
10/30/2013

Policies For Curriculum Development
Instructional practices and there implementation are crucial to the success or failure of students. In order to achieve high-level learners based on a standardized curriculum, instructional practices must be examine and analyzed to ensure that all student’s needs are met. There are proven instructional practices that have led to higher level learning and student success that are engaging and allow students to be responsible for their own learning. By aligning these practices with a standard based curriculum, students can be successful at applying their learning to real world problem solving while passing the curriculum-based assessments to determine student growth.
Marzano’s High Yield Strategies It has been said that teacher are made, not born. Robert J. Marzano used this premise to start his work on creating instructional strategies that can make any teacher an effective instructor. An important study during the late 1960’s indicated that teachers form expectations about their students’ chances for academic success and then interact with students on the basis of those expectations (Marzano, 2010, p. 82). This basically says that teachers often treats students according to what they expect each can do based on their abilities. With these expectations, students will usually start to act in accordance with the expectation that this treatment implies (Marzano, 2010, p. 82). Since some teachers may not be aware that they are treating students differently than others, Robert Marzano created various instructional strategies coined “Marzano’s Nine Instructional Strategies for Effective Teaching and Learning”. These instructional practices are more likely to improve student achievement if implemented effectively with fidelity.