ABSTRACT
The current research on effective teaching calls for curriculum alignment. Curriculum alignment can be explained as: stating your objectives, teaching to your objectives, and testing those same objectives. The idea is that if you and your students are clear about where you are headed, you head there, and then, you check to see you are actually there, the desired learning will occur. In this age of standards and high-stakes, end-of-course testing, the need for curriculum alignment is clear. But, how can teachers take required curriculum and make it meaningful and important to students so that they actually learn it? The answer can be found in authentic instruction.
