Constructive Alignment

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Constructive Alignment

It's a design in teaching that is used to state what students should learn and how it will be expressed by them before teaching takes place. Then, proper activities will be designed to ensure all expectations previously set will be accomplished together with assessment tasks that easily and, in a clear way, can help to show these results were achieved.

Why is it important?

Its principles

To understand constructive alignment in a curriculum we need to...

Understand the curriculum's content

Mission and vision of the program

The Key Performance Indicator (KPI) to be achieved

Its purpose

We can conclude that, constructive alignment is important because previous knowledge, teaching, strategies and assessments work in a parallel way, aligned to achieve positive results in students' process.

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Do we have clear goals about what needs to be learned?

This teaching design is useful to enlighten all learning including activities to guanrantee that learners can build their own learning and refer to the learning goals / expecttions that have been foocused to them.

Do you have clear goals?

To set suitable expectations and assessments that will help students reach the intended learning outcomes

Should teaching be spontaneous?

Constructive alignment helps to ensure curriculum is followed throughout the course being taught. With this, we reinforce previous learning