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Aligning and balancing the standards-based curriculum /
Full of field-tested implementation tools, this comprehensive handbook shows how schools and districts can use the Balanced Curriculum process to put their schools on the track to success. <br />
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Corwin Press, A Sage Publication Company,
[2005]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Curriculum tools and concepts: textbooks, standards, alignment, and standardized testing
- Curriculum, instruction, assessment, and standards
- Textbooks: what the research says
- Understanding and using national, state, and local frameworks and standards
- The importance of aligning curriculum
- The conundrum of standardized testing
- The design of the balanced curriculum
- Curriculum structure and criteria for a useful and useable curriculum
- The balanced curriculum process
- Setting up the curriculum writing process
- Defining the components of a good program
- Reviewing standards, sequencing courses, describing units, and delineating unit timelines
- Other standards for alignment and balance
- Generating and validating significant tasks
- Aligning the balanced curriculum with standards and assessments
- Balancing the aligned curriculum
- Constructing content assessments
- constructing format assessments
- Staff development for and results of the balanced curriculum
- Introducing the balanced curriculum process in a district
- Staff development to promote curriculum implementation
- The superintendent's role
- The results so far: fifteen years of data from urban, suburban, and rural schools.