Restructuring Around Standards: A Practitioner's Guide to Design and Implementation [Paperback]

This practical, hands-on guide leads you through the process of developing and implementing standards for your school or district.This practical, hands-on guide leads you through the process of developing and implementing standards for your school or district.Foriska offers a 'how to' guide for identifying, designing, and structuring a schools curriculum around significant educational standards. The volume proposes and describes a framework for designing academic standards and for refining them through a curriculum design process that is relevant for instruction.Restructuring Around Standards is an excellent resource book for the busy school administrator who needs clear and practical tips on standards reform. It helps make a complex task understandable.What Do We Mean by Standards?
A Changing World and the Demand for Standards
`Framework for Excellence'
A Process of Standards Design and Implementation
Developing a Vision of Standards Through Stakeholder Involvement
Designing the Curriculum
Developing Content Standards
Identifying Benchmarks and Performance Indicators
Linking Curriculum with Comprehensive Assessment
Backward Mapping
Attending to Other Curriculum Details
Aligning Instruction
Leading a Standards-Based Organization