The Align to Standards tool in Teach helps you quickly update your existing lesson instructions to reflect educational standards. Instead of rewriting lessons from scratch, you can transform your content so it clearly supports required learning goals—focusing on what learners should understand or be able to do.
Align content to standards
Follow these steps to align your lesson instruction to one or more standards:
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Enter the lesson instruction. Type or paste the instruction you want to align. The field supports up to 50,000 characters (minimum 50).
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Select standards to align to.
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Choose Add standards to open the standards picker.
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Search or scroll to find the correct standard set (national, state, or international).
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Pick the subject, grade level, and strand.
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Select the specific standard(s) whose intent you want the instruction to reflect.
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Generate the aligned instruction. Select Generate. Teach will rewrite your instruction so that it reflects the intent of the chosen standard(s)—focusing on what learners should understand or be able to do.
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Review and refine. Look at the rewritten instruction. Use the description field or the suggested modifications to adjust the alignment if needed. Ensure the revised instruction stays true to your lesson's purpose while matching the standard's intent.
Note: Strong alignment helps ensure that lesson instructions clearly support required learning goals and match the cognitive expectations of the standard.
Tip: Select multiple related standards to produce a more comprehensive aligned instruction that addresses connected learning objectives.
Example scenario
An educator has a lesson instruction for a reading activity on ecosystems. After selecting the new state science standard, the educator uses Align to Standards to produce a revised instruction that better reflects what the standard expects—such as emphasizing system interactions or evidence-based explanations—while still keeping the original lesson's purpose. This helps the educator quickly strengthen alignment without rewriting the lesson from scratch.
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