Meeting standards through integrated curriculum / Susan Drake and Rebecca Burns.

Many schools under pressure to meet new standards of learning mistakenly believe that they must adopt a narrow curriculum that imposes strict boundaries on what students are taught. In this book, Susan M. Drake and Rebecca C. Burns address this issue by offering strategies for synchronizing standard...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Drake, Susan M., 1944-
Other Authors: Burns, Rebecca Crawford
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, ©2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is integrated curriculum?
  • Why integrate the curriculum in an era of accountability?
  • Creating the Know/Do/Be Bridge
  • Using standards to integrate the curriculum
  • Aligning assessment and instruction with the Know/Do/Be Bridge
  • A template for planning interdisciplinary curriculum
  • Castles, kings-- and standards : one classroom's experience with integrated curriculum
  • Making connections : a multidisciplinary model
  • A mission to transform education : Newsome Park Elementary School
  • The Alpha Program : students as standards-based curriculum designers
  • Questions and answers
  • The future of integrated curriculum : stilling the pendulum.