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Summary:

"We know that curriculum is the core of the classroom experience, but what makes a quality curriculum? How can educators be sure that what they teach is strongly aligned to the specific standards that their district or school has adopted? What kinds of lessons, learning experiences, and assessments are most effective, and how should they be embedded within the curriculum? You'll find the answers to these and many other questions in this definitive, step-by-step guide to curriculum design and evaluation. Drawing from her work with teachers and administrators to facilitate curriculum development, Angela Di Michele Lalor offers targeted advice and real-life examples from elementary and secondary units of study across a variety of content areas and standards, as well as field-tested rubrics, protocols, and other tools. She provides criteria for evaluating each component of a curriculum and end-of-chapter checklists to help you ensure that the criteria are met. Relevant to anyone who is creating or revising curriculum, or evaluating options among published alternatives, Ensuring High-Quality Curriculum is a comprehensive and accessible roadmap to developing a solid foundation for teaching and learning--and better results in the classroom"--Back cover.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: the "big picture" of curriculum
• Consideration 1: Organizing centers
• Consideration 2: Alignment to standards
• Consideration 3: Standards placement and emphasis
• Consideration 4: Assessment types and purposes
• Consideration 5: Curriculum-embedded performance assessments
• Consideration 6: Instruction
• Consideration 7: Resources that support instruction
• Consideration 8: Success with your curriculum.

Author/Creator:

Lalor, Angela Di Michele , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Ensuring high-quality curriculum: how to design, revise, or adopt curriculum aligned to student success [by Lalor, A.D.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Ensuring high-quality curriculum [by Lalor, A.D.M.] (Alexandria, VA : ASCD, [2017] — ISBN 9781416622796; LCCN 2016033240; OCLC Number 957554631)

Subjects:

Curriculum planning

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from resource home page (EBSCOhost, viewed April 25, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 211 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LB2806.15 .L356 2017eb

ISBNs:

9781416622819 (electronic bk.)
1416622810 (electronic bk.)
9781416622796 (paperback) [Invalid]
1416622799 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2016039839

OCLC Numbers:

957554875