ABSTRACT
Curriculum includes every facet of classroom teaching and learning and the professional preparation it requires to ensure student understanding, proficiency, and, eventually, mastery of the content. Within the content area of literacy instruction, curriculum encompasses the integrated knowledge and skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Literacy coaches should be aware that curriculum includes a number of key concepts that must be identified and applied if a coach is to develop proficiency and work effectively with teachers from multiple grades. Curriculum can be divided into intended, enacted, assessed, and learned curriculum. Literacy coaches should be cognizant of these curriculum types as each of them naturally exists in classrooms and the varying degrees of their presence have a profound effect on student learning outcomes. Learned curriculum, meanwhile, concentrates on the actual learning students have achieved. Leveraging aspects of curriculum has the potential to assert significant influence on school improvement.
