Aligning Standards and Curriculum for Classroom Success

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Daniel M. Perna - James Daniel & Associates
James R. Davis - James Daniel & Associates
Aligning Standards and Curriculum for Classroom Success
August 2006 | 144 pages | Corwin
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"The authors have designed a process that respects the teacher's professionalism and works to collaborate with stakeholders in a discussion about standards and possible educational outcomes without becoming mechanical."
-From the Foreword by Fenwick W. English

Create a standards-based instructional plan that works!

In recent years, educational reform has required standards-based instruction and high levels of accountability from schools. To cope with an overcrowded and often overwhelming curriculum, educators need a way to meet the challenge of translating standards into effective teaching and learning. Aligning Standards and Curriculum for Classroom Success provides teachers with the tools and strategies they need to plan instruction that meets state and national standards.

This updated, revised edition includes the latest research about standards and curriculum design, expanded coverage of the development of criterion standards, increased attention to assessment, and new sample instructional plans. It also features:

  • A structured dialogue process to help stakeholders reach consensus about what students should learn
  • Step-by-step directions for developing criterion standards
  • Guidelines for designing instructional plans based on standards
  • Strategies for using standards to integrate the curriculum
  • Examples of standards-based instructional plans for different content areas, courses, and grade levels
  • A framework for ensuring that teachers evaluate students consistently and with continuity throughout a school or district

Providing high-quality instruction and ensuring student achievement in a standards-driven system is a challenge for all educators. This guide offers all the tools needed to successfully align standards to lesson planning.

Contents

Foreword by Fenwick W. English

Foreword by Fenwick W. English

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

  • 1. Student Achievement Using a Holistic Approach to Standards
  • What Are Standards?
  • Best Practices
  • The Consensus for Standards
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: Language Arts
  • 2. The Need for Dialogue
  • Communicating Consensus
  • Stakeholders as Team Members
  • Steps in the CAST Dialogue Process
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: U.S. History
  • 3. The Language of Expectation
  • The Need for a Common Language
  • Criterion Standards and Integrated Authentic Assessment
  • Constructing the Verb Matrix
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: Mathematics
  • 4. Designing and Using the Standards-Based Curriculum
  • Writing Criterion Standards
  • Using Criterion Standards
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: English
  • 5. Instructional Plans Based on Criterion Standards
  • Components of the Instructional Plans
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plans
  • 6. Lesson Planning Takes Root
  • Integrating the Curriculum
  • The Planned Course Document
  • Developing the Standards-Based Instructional Plan
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: Learning Support--Language Arts

Resource A: Relevant Web Sites

Resource A: Relevant Web Sites

Resource B: Verb Matrix Survey Material

Resource B: Verb Matrix Survey Material

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index

Description

"The authors have designed a process that respects the teacher's professionalism and works to collaborate with stakeholders in a discussion about standards and possible educational outcomes without becoming mechanical."
-From the Foreword by Fenwick W. English

Create a standards-based instructional plan that works!

In recent years, educational reform has required standards-based instruction and high levels of accountability from schools. To cope with an overcrowded and often overwhelming curriculum, educators need a way to meet the challenge of translating standards into effective teaching and learning. Aligning Standards and Curriculum for Classroom Success provides teachers with the tools and strategies they need to plan instruction that meets state and national standards.

This updated, revised edition includes the latest research about standards and curriculum design, expanded coverage of the development of criterion standards, increased attention to assessment, and new sample instructional plans. It also features:

  • A structured dialogue process to help stakeholders reach consensus about what students should learn
  • Step-by-step directions for developing criterion standards
  • Guidelines for designing instructional plans based on standards
  • Strategies for using standards to integrate the curriculum
  • Examples of standards-based instructional plans for different content areas, courses, and grade levels
  • A framework for ensuring that teachers evaluate students consistently and with continuity throughout a school or district

Providing high-quality instruction and ensuring student achievement in a standards-driven system is a challenge for all educators. This guide offers all the tools needed to successfully align standards to lesson planning.

Contents

Foreword by Fenwick W. English

Foreword by Fenwick W. English

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

  • 1. Student Achievement Using a Holistic Approach to Standards
  • What Are Standards?
  • Best Practices
  • The Consensus for Standards
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: Language Arts
  • 2. The Need for Dialogue
  • Communicating Consensus
  • Stakeholders as Team Members
  • Steps in the CAST Dialogue Process
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: U.S. History
  • 3. The Language of Expectation
  • The Need for a Common Language
  • Criterion Standards and Integrated Authentic Assessment
  • Constructing the Verb Matrix
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: Mathematics
  • 4. Designing and Using the Standards-Based Curriculum
  • Writing Criterion Standards
  • Using Criterion Standards
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: English
  • 5. Instructional Plans Based on Criterion Standards
  • Components of the Instructional Plans
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plans
  • 6. Lesson Planning Takes Root
  • Integrating the Curriculum
  • The Planned Course Document
  • Developing the Standards-Based Instructional Plan
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: Learning Support--Language Arts

Resource A: Relevant Web Sites

Resource A: Relevant Web Sites

Resource B: Verb Matrix Survey Material

Resource B: Verb Matrix Survey Material

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index

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"The authors have designed a process that respects the teacher's professionalism and works to collaborate with stakeholders in a discussion about standards and possible educational outcomes without becoming mechanical."
-From the Foreword by Fenwick W. English

Create a standards-based instructional plan that works!

In recent years, educational reform has required standards-based instruction and high levels of accountability from schools. To cope with an overcrowded and often overwhelming curriculum, educators need a way to meet the challenge of translating standards into effective teaching and learning. Aligning Standards and Curriculum for Classroom Success provides teachers with the tools and strategies they need to plan instruction that meets state and national standards.

This updated, revised edition includes the latest research about standards and curriculum design, expanded coverage of the development of criterion standards, increased attention to assessment, and new sample instructional plans. It also features:

  • A structured dialogue process to help stakeholders reach consensus about what students should learn
  • Step-by-step directions for developing criterion standards
  • Guidelines for designing instructional plans based on standards
  • Strategies for using standards to integrate the curriculum
  • Examples of standards-based instructional plans for different content areas, courses, and grade levels
  • A framework for ensuring that teachers evaluate students consistently and with continuity throughout a school or district

Providing high-quality instruction and ensuring student achievement in a standards-driven system is a challenge for all educators. This guide offers all the tools needed to successfully align standards to lesson planning.


Table Of Contents:

  • Foreword by Fenwick W. English
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • 1. Student Achievement Using a Holistic Approach to Standards
  • What Are Standards?
  • Best Practices
  • The Consensus for Standards
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: Language Arts
  • 2. The Need for Dialogue
  • Communicating Consensus
  • Stakeholders as Team Members
  • Steps in the CAST Dialogue Process
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: U.S. History
  • 3. The Language of Expectation
  • The Need for a Common Language
  • Criterion Standards and Integrated Authentic Assessment
  • Constructing the Verb Matrix
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: Mathematics
  • 4. Designing and Using the Standards-Based Curriculum
  • Writing Criterion Standards
  • Using Criterion Standards
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: English
  • 5. Instructional Plans Based on Criterion Standards
  • Components of the Instructional Plans
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plans
  • 6. Lesson Planning Takes Root
  • Integrating the Curriculum
  • The Planned Course Document
  • Developing the Standards-Based Instructional Plan
  • Standards-Based Instructional Plan: Learning Support--Language Arts
  • Resource A: Relevant Web Sites
  • Resource B: Verb Matrix Survey Material
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"It seems you can’t talk to any American teacher today without hearing about the pressure to raise test scores and ‘cover’ standards. Perna and Davis help schools and teachers navigate the standards movement by creating a common language and step-by-step approach that brings state standards from an abstract--and sometimes feared--document to a powerful classroom tool."
Billie Donegan, School Improvement Coach, Keystone Educational Services, Woodlan Park, CO
"This book is a distinct contribution to the field given today’s accountability-heavy educational environment. An understanding of how to work successfully with standards is critical to student and teacher success."
Stacey Edmonson, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Sam Houston State University
"The authors have designed a process that respects the teacher’s professionalism and works to collaborate with parents in a discussion about standards and possible educational outcomes without becoming mechanical."
From the Foreword by Fenwick W. English

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