How to Use Standards in the Classroom

✍ Scribed by Tim Flynn, Marge Petit, Susan Rigney

• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 74
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How can you bring standards to life and reality in your classroom? This guide is for teachers who seek a model and processes for designing standards-based units of study to use in their classrooms. The proliferation of standards developed at the national and state levels turns the preparation of a meaningful classroom curriculum into a daunting task. Imagine that your district has recently adopted standards for student learning or your state has just published standards for your subject area. As you open the standards documents, you wonder "How do I make these standards part of my curriculum? How will I know if my students have attained the standards?" Harris and Carr share their experiences with standards-based learning and offer practical examples of how to develop standards into units of study. The model and processes they describe in this book help readers in choosing and coordinating standards, topics, products and performances, assessment criteria, exemplars, and scoring guides.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments......Page 5
Introduction......Page 6
National Standards
and State Frameworks......Page 10
Merging Standards,
Local Curriculum, and
Classroom Practice......Page 16
Designing Topics
and Activities......Page 23
Aligning Products
and Performances......Page 34
Selecting Assessment
Criteria, Scoring
Guides, and Exemplars......Page 40
Using Standards to
Communicate About
Learning......Page 53
Beyond the Classroom......Page 58
Appendix A......Page 61
Appendix B......Page 64
Appendix C......Page 65
Appendix D......Page 67
Appendix E......Page 70
Selected Resources......Page 71
References......Page 72