Aligning and Balancing the Standards-Based Curriculum [Hardcover]

Full of field-tested implementation tools, this comprehensive handbook shows how schools and districts can use the Balanced Curriculum process to put their schools on the track to success.

Full of field-tested implementation tools, this comprehensive handbook shows how schools and districts can use the Balanced Curriculum process to put their schools on the track to success.

A coherent approach to curriculum, instruction, and assessment in the age of standards-driven education. It will be an excellent contribution. Im happy with the Balanced Curriculum process, my Board is happy, and my students are benefiting from it. The book builds a bridge of confidence that will convince readers of both the ideas and of their own ability to succeed. A wonderful and thorough explanation of the Balanced Curriculum. The work that Dr. Squires has done in moving the curriculum development process onto the Web has removed some of the tedium involved in crafting curriculum, making it user friendly and open to the kinds of ongoing changes that make the promise of continual renewal of curriculum a reality. Foreword - Fenwick W. English
Preface
About the Author
About the Balanced Curriculum Web Site
Introduction
Section I. Curriculum Tools and Concepts: Textbooks, Standards, Alignment, and Standardized Testing
1. Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Standards
2. Textbooks: What the Research Says
3. Understanding and Using National, State, and Local Frameworks and Standards
4. The Importance of Aligning Curriculum
5. The Conundrum of Standardized Testing
Section II. The Design of the Balanced Curriculum
6. Curriculum Structure and Criteria for a Useful and Useable Curriculum&lÃ]