Alignment for Personal Plan

1. ARTICULATION
JOSHUA DONALDSON

2. Definition
 “Articulation refers to the incremental development of learning objectives across
the tiers and subject domains of formal education” (Watermeyer 2012)
 Consists of Vertical and Horizontal Alignments

3. Vertical Alignment
 Vertical alignment connects previous learning to future learning.
 Vertical Alignment is often looked at from one grade level to the next.
 For example, grade level language arts teachers meet to make sure one level
builds from the next.

4. Horizontal Alignment
 Horizontal Alignment is across the same grade level.
 Teachers from different subjects who teach the same grade meet to ensure their
activities are interrelated.

5. ALIGNMENT IN MY CLASSES
Vertical
 I talk with ninth and tenth ELA teachers
and discuss skills and standards taught in
those grade levels. Then, I expand upon
those skills. I also know what I should be
able to expect from students.
 I also want to talk with twelfth grade ELA
teachers to make certain my students have
the skills necessary to progress next year.
Horizontal
 I meet with teachers who teach my
students. We discuss how we can work
together to teach literacy for eleventh
graders in all of our classes. We want our
students to make connections.
 Since I teach American literature and my
students take U.S. History, we have lots of
opportunities to make connections. We
can plan units to coincide with the same
time periods.

6. Reference
 Watermeyer, R. (2012). Curriculum alignment, articulation and the formative
development of the learner. Retrieved from
http://www.ibo.org/globalassets/publications/ib-
research/curriculumalignmenteng.pdf.