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Carr, Judy F.
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379.1580973 21
Publication Date
2001
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How do you reshape the local curriculum to incorporate local, state, and national standards? Succeeding with Standards: Linking Curriculum, Assessment, and Action Planning offers a practical, school-tested solution to the challenge of incorporating standards at all levels with the best of the local education system. In this book, Judy Carr and Douglas Harris describe a comprehensive process by which schools and districts can turn piecemeal initiatives into a coherent plan. The authors share their extensive experience in schools across the United States, especially groundbreaking work in Vermont, to depict the standards-linking process. They explain how to . Determine who is to teach and assess each standard . Create a curriculum and assessment plan . Define effective practice . Create a comprehensive assessment system . Map out a path to success through action planning Improved student performance is the centerpiece of all standards-linking processes. Carr and Harris emphasize this point, clearly keeping Succeeding with Standards within the context of improving academic performance for all children. They also cover challenges related to reporting results and addressing professional development in a standards-based environment. Plentiful figures and examples highlight Carr and Harris's examples and advice. An extensive glossary and helpful list of selected resources round out the volume.
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Briggs, Ann R. J.
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375.001 21
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2002
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Presents the theory underlying management of teaching and learning, as well as discussion of good practice in schools and colleges. Examples are drawn from international settings as well as from the United Kingdom.
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Torp, Linda, 1946-
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375.001 21
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2002
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Jacobs, Heidi Hayes.
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375.0010973 22
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2010
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Covers why and how schools must overhaul, update, and breathe new life into the K-12 curriculum to reflect new technologies in a globalized world.
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Griffith, Bryant.
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2012
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In this the sixth book of a series of exploratory and cautionary tales, Griffith revisits the sites of reflective knowledge and practical experiences that have been our historical presuppositions, and which are now in the process of flux and change. As in his previous books, historical discourse, what we know and can know about the past, is used as the baseline for understanding. This is an ongoing process, where ideas are considered, used to interact with other ideas, and then, among communities of learners, are incorporated, supplanted, or rejected. This is more than a dialectical process because it is based in human action. In education, broadly speaking, we have taught and have learned that this was a linear, rational path that could be mapped, but in today's fragmented, decentered world of difference we can no longer be certain that our presuppositions hold or apply. Using the analogy of shifting strands, this book provides a way of coming to understand, rather than a way of knowing. It suggests that our emerging paradigm will be grounded in presuppositions that are relative to person, place, and time and that certainty may be illusive. The role of introducing ideas like these in a mass capitalist democracy such as ours is a staggering challenge, and it is one that has fallen to educators whether they wish it or not. Shifting Strands challenges both teachers and learners to take up the torch and run with it. This can be accomplished by thinking in a way that is both historical and philosophical; one that understands that learning occurs when we understand where our learners are situated in terms of place and thought. Thinking and knowing about the world is relative to who you are and your ability to thinking in a critical and reflexive way. This is only the first part of the challenge. The second, and no less important, task is for you to realize the power of our polymodal world. Increasingly, we rely on social networks in our decision-making and retreat from the more difficult process of negotiation and interaction, but it is this process that schooling must explore and practice. Our world is paradoxical. There are few, if any, certainties and the trip to understanding our reasons for believing and acting as we do is one with many different routes. It is an exciting time, full of possibility and open to the maverick in you, and open to your creative spirit. Come along for the ride.
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Costa, Arthur L.
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370.152 22
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2009
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Real-life experiences from K-12 teachers provide readers with insight and model lessons for weaving the development of strong habits of mind into daily instruction in language arts, music, physical education, social studies, math, foreign language, and other content areas.
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Connelly, F. Michael.
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375.001 22
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2008
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This edited work emerges from a concept of curriculum and instruction as a diverse landscape defined and bounded by schools, school boards and their communities, policy, teacher education, and academic research. The book is aimed at lecturers, professors and academics.
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Udelhofen, Susan, author.
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375.001 22
Publication Date
2005
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Packed with templates, flowcharts, tips & trouble-shooting for curriculum mapping, this user friendly resource is grounded in the author's consulting work with schools, conference presentations & research on effective schools.
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O'Neill, John.
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375.0010941 20
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1996
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Eakle, A. Jonathan, 1957- editor.
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375.001 23
Publication Date
2012
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Provides views on multiple sides of curriculum and instruction issues in America's schools and offers more in-depth resources for further exploration. Explores such varied issues as alternative curriculum, curriculum control, standardized curricula, subject- versus student-centered curricula, and textbooks.
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Wiggins, Grant P., 1950-
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375.001 22
Publication Date
2005
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"What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike."--Publisher.
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Brown, John L., 1947-
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375.001 22
Publication Date
2004
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Annotation Thousands of educators worldwide are already using Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe?s Understanding by Design (UbD) as a framework for designing curriculum units, performance assessments, and instruction that lead students to deep understanding of content. This book, based on data gathered from surveys, interviews, and focus group discussions, reflects what educators have learned about effective UbD implementation and explores how schools and districts can leverage UbD principles to improve student achievement, staff performance, and organizational productivity. Educators who have used the UbD framework for several years in various school settings present advice, strategies, and processes for using Understanding by Design to* Design purposeful, coherent curricula* Deliver instruction that promotes understanding for all* Unpack district standards* Expand assessment repertoires* Create meaningful and effective professional development and teacher-induction programs* Sustain a successful process of continuous improvement and strategic planning. Each chapter concludes with organization-focused assessment questionnaires and related resources that can help you?as an individual or as a member of a study group or action research team?develop a clear, strategic sense of how to make the most of Understanding by Design as a catalyst for real learning, increased student achievement, and school and district renewal. John L. Brown is an educational consultant for ASCD, where he works with product and professional development and serves as a member of the national training cadres for Understanding by Design and What Works in Schools.
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