Meeting Standards Through Integrated Curriculum

✍ Scribed by Susan M. Drake, Rebecca Crawford Burns

• Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 190
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 Drake and Rebecca Burns address this issue by offering strategies for synchronizing standards across the disciplines. At the heart of the book is the KNOW/DO/BE framework, which teachers can use to ensure a curriculum that is both rigorous and relevant to K-12 students at all stages of proficiency. Among other things, this comprehensive framework allows teachers to

- Map curricula - Scan and cluster standards - Develop assessments and guiding questions - Align integrated instructional strategies and assessments

Though the authors draw much of their data from research on integration, their focus is on analyzing the real-life experiences of teachers who have successfully integrated their curricula in the service of accountability. The many benefits of this approach that the authors explore include lower absenteeism, fewer behavioral problems, and higher rates of homework completion. By combining case studies with a wealth of supporting research, Meeting Standards Through Integrated Curriculum offers teachers a user-friendly system for meeting standards while advancing broad-based learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
What Is Integrated
Curriculum?......Page 13
Why Integrate the
Curriculum in an Era of
Accountability?......Page 25
Creating the
KNOW/DO/BE Bridge......Page 38
Using Standards to
Integrate the Curriculum......Page 58
Aligning Assessment
and Instruction with the
KNOW/DO/BE Bridge......Page 74
A Template for Planning
Interdisciplinary
Curriculum......Page 86
Castles, Kings . . .
and Standards
One Classroom’s Experience
with Integrated Curriculum......Page 98
Making Connections
A Multidisciplinary Model......Page 106
A Mission to
Transform Education
Newsome Park
Elementary School......Page 117
The Alpha Program
Students as Standards-Based
Curriculum Designers......Page 127
Questions and Answers......Page 137
The Future of
Integrated Curriculum
Stilling the Pendulum......Page 148
Appendix A
Interdisciplinary
Curriculum Template for
the Medieval Times Unit......Page 154
Appendix B
Making Connections
Template and Rubric......Page 159
Appendix C
Alpha Program Planning
Sheet, Rubric, and
Individualized Self-
Assessment Criteria......Page 164
Additional Resources......Page 169
References......Page 175
Index......Page 180
About the Authors......Page 187