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Aligning your curriculum to the common core state standards / Joe Crawford ; foreword by Karen Young.
LIBRA LB1570 .C874 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crawford, Joe, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Curricula--Standards--United States--States.
- Education.
- Education--Curricula--Standards.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 223 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Crawford is a veteran English teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent. In this book for instructional leaders, he examines issues surrounding implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and provides a step-by-step process for using CCSS as the basis for creating local curriculum documents that define skills to be learned, and using the CCSS curriculum model at the local level. The book also discusses possibility of using CCSS as the basis for a new national curriculum model. Process summaries, checklists, and sample documents are included. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- 1 Overview of CCSS and Associated Leadership Issues 3
- Chapter Expectations 3
- Action Steps 3
- Leadership Challenges in Implementing CCSS 5
- What are Standards? 6
- Develop and Use a Standards-Based Curriculum 6
- Align the Curriculum 8
- Think of Content as a Means to a Performance End 10
- Staff Development Issues 10
- Build Understanding of the CCSS 11
- Use What Has Already Been Developed as a Basis for Moving Forward 12
- Defining and Creating Local CCSS 13
- Understand Local CCSS (Power Standards) 14
- How to Read These Samples 15
- What are Instructional Objectives? 16
- Why are Instructional Objectives So Important? 21
- System Thinking 22
- What About Using National Assessments as Formative Assessments? 24
- What About Accountability? 25
- What About Using the Data? 26
- What About Monitoring? 26
- System Thinking Summarized 28
- Process Summary 29
- Process Checklist 29
- 2 Curriculum Issues and a National Curriculum Model 31
- Chapter Expectations 31
- Action Steps 31
- What is a Curriculum? 33
- Consider Your Options for Defining Curriculum 33
- A New Model for a National Curriculum 34
- New National Model Defined 36
- Process Summary 45
- Process Checklist 46
- 3 The Development and Use of Local CCSS, Quarterly Instructional Objectives, and Common Formative Assessments 47
- Chapter Expectations 47
- Action Steps 48
- Build Local CCSS 49
- Design Quarterly Instructional Objectives 57
- Develop Common Formative Assessments 61
- Addressing Formative Assessments Within the Assessment Development Cycle 63
- Address Issues in Creating Common Formative Assessments 66
- Designing Local Assessments 68
- Process Summary 77
- Process Checklist 78
- 4 A Sample K-12 Curriculum 79
- Chapter Expectations 79
- Action Steps 79
- Read and Understand the New Model 80
- Accept the Realities of a Sample From Several Districts 81
- How to Read These Samples 82
- Sample K-12 ELA Curriculum 83
- Sample K-12 Math Curriculum 139
- Process Summary 181
- Process Checklist 182
- 5 The Journey Ahead 183
- Chapter Expectations 183
- Action Steps 183
- Summary of Issues 184
- Some Specific Issues 185
- Current Reactions 189
- Final Thoughts 194.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1452216479
- 9781452216478
- OCLC:
- 746834897
- Publisher Number:
- 99947097047
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