Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum: Aligning Curriculum, Content, Assessment, and Instruction

Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum: Aligning Curriculum, Content, Assessment, and Instruction
ISBN-10
1412915066
ISBN-13
9781412915069
Series
Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum
Category
Education / General
Pages
206
Language
English
Published
2007-02-21
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Author
Susan M. Drake

Description

""The content is powerful. Seeing examples from all grade levels is important so that each reader, regardless of teaching level, can see that it can be done in his or her situation.""?Sue DeLay, Curriculum Resource Teacher, Oak Creek Franklin School District, WI""Contains real-life examples of integration, including examples of the author's own experience in the classroom, making the work much more appealing and credible for teachers.""?Mary Ann Kahl, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, National-Louis University""This is the first book I have read that lays out a big picture that I can buy into and explains how to look at accountability in a positive way.""?Jane Adair, Resource Specialist, Long Beach Polytechnic High School, CA"Help your learners connect big questions to big understandings!"In today's accountability-driven environment, educators strive to develop an integrated, relevant, and measurable curriculum while also presenting engaging subject matter that inspires student learning. In this completely revised edition of the classic text, Susan M. Drake provides a new approach to standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessment that helps educators identify what students must know, do, and be. This invaluable resource also offers: A framework allowing for multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches to curriculum integrationSample models of integrated curriculum in actionPractical suggestions to simplify curriculum alignment and integrationInsights based on real classroom experience to connect the framework to the real worldEnd-of-chapter discussion questions and suggested activities Discover how you can create anintegrated, standards-based curriculum that inspires your students, and then watch them thrive.

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