Aligning and balancing the standards-based curriculum. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David A. Squires ; foreword by Fenwick W. English.
• Other Names: Squires, David A
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (344 pages)
• Subjects: 375/.001; Curriculum planning -- United States; Education -- Standards -- United States; Competency-based education -- United States; Competency-based education; Curriculum planning; Education -- Standards; Approche par compétences; Éducation; Planification pédagogique; Norme; Programme d'études; Curriculum; Planung; United States; États-Unis; USA; Guide (Descripteur de forme)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483360591; 1483360598
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.