Dynamic Digital Curriculum Platform: Another Innovative Solution from ATI

The Galileo Digital Curriculum Platform supports the integration of instruction with assessment to promote learning. With the curriculum platform, school districts and charter schools can easily integrate existing curriculum content, develop new curriculum content, and modify curriculums as needed. Once curriculum information has been entered into the platform, school and classroom level users can quickly access the information in order to plan and implement curriculum, differentiated instruction, and assessment activities.

The Digital Curriculum Platform is comprised of two integrated components: 1) a series of online Instructional Units defining the scope and sequence of instruction and offering a variety of resources to guide instruction; and 2) within each Unit a series of online Instructional Dialogs enabling the development and delivery of instruction and assessment within each unit. A series of Units can form the complete curriculum for a particular subject and grade. Curriculums built on the platform may include multimedia content, technology-enhanced lessons, assignments, assessments, and tools supporting online synchronous and asynchronous communication between students and teachers.

A Galileo Unit contains standards to be addressed, instructional content, resources, and Instructional Dialogs. Click to view larger.

Because the curriculum platform is fully integrated within Galileo K-12 Online, teachers, specialists and administrators have real-time, time-saving access to Galileo Dashboard reports displaying a continuous portrait of student growth and achievement. Moreover, parents and students have access to curriculum through the Galileo K-12 Online Student-Parent Center. The center is comprised of an array of features designed to increase student engagement in the learning process and provide parents with easy access to information on student learning, curriculum and resources.

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Introducing Galileo's Dynamic Digital Curriculum Platform

The rise of digital technology and its widespread application call for new approaches to assessment and curriculum design and implementation. ATI has created a Digital Curriculum Platform providing educators and students many benefits  in the changing educational environment. The Galileo Digital Curriculum Platform supports rapid dynamic curriculum development integrating instruction with assessment to promote learning. Galileo digital curriculum consists of two major components: a series of online Instructional Units defining the scope and sequence of instruction and offering a variety of resources to guide instruction and, within each Unit, a series of online Instructional Dialogs enabling the online delivery of assessment and instruction. Galileo digital curriculums may include multi-media content, technology-enhanced assessments, and tools supporting online synchronous and asynchronous communication between students and teachers. What is taught as well as what is learned can be tracked through the digital curriculums.

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ATI Digital Curriculums contain a series of Instructional Units defining the scope and sequence of instruction for a specific grade and subject.

Online Curriculum Development – New this fall

ATI Instructional Dialogs are comprised of a series of instructional communications among students and their teacher intended to promote student mastery of educational standards. They can include lessons or assignments that may be delivered online or offline. Dialogs provide many benefits that can improve the quality of instruction and reduce the cost and effort required to implement instruction:

• Dialogs can be linked to Instructional Units providing a framework for the rapid development, deployment, and modification of curriculum. Online Instructional Dialogs integrate assessment and instruction. Thus, a Dialog may include a lesson, discussion of the lesson, and assessments of the mastery of lesson objectives interspersed throughout the Dialog. Integration makes it possible to provide immediate feedback during the instructional process, which has been shown in research studies to improve learning.  
• Dialogs make it possible to offer instruction simultaneously in multiple classes in different locations supporting rapid and flexible dissemination of instruction. 
• Dialogs provide a record of what has been taught and what has been learned. Accordingly, they can be used to assess the effectiveness of Instructional Units, making it possible to improve curriculum continuously.  
• Dialogs make it possible to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of different forms of differentiated instruction.   
• Formative assessments implemented in Dialogs support the introduction of Technology Enhanced (TE) items in an instructional environment that can promote the development of test-taking skills associated with TE item types and the mastery of valued standards targeted for instruction in district curriculum.

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Instructional Units and Instructional Dialogs

Galileo K-12 Online Instructional Units and Instructional Dialogs are part of the comprehensive instructional improvement and instructional effectiveness system providing innovative technology to enhance learning. Instructional Units and Instructional Dialogs are online instructional exchanges between teachers and students designed to promote student mastery of standards. Images, animations, audio and video files, and web links can easily be incorporated providing an enriching instructional experience.

Instructional Units can be constructed to specify the scope and sequence of local curriculum aligned to Common Core and state-specific standards. Instructional Units integrate assessment with instruction in online and offline Instructional Dialogs containing lessons, assignments, and assessments.

ATI Instructional Dialogs provide a safe instructional environment promoting standards mastery and test-taking skills unique to the diversity of new item types planned by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) and by Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) for the Common Core Initiative. ATI's technology enhanced items currently available in formative assessments in English language arts, math, and science will soon be available for use in Instructional Dialogs and Instructional Units.

View a sample science Dialog