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Meeting Standards Through Integrated Curriculum
About This Book
If you've ever thought that standards-based teaching and required content prevent you from integrating subject areas, then here's a book that will change the way you think and alert you to exciting new possibilities in your approach to teaching.
Learn how to identify the connections in your standards that provide the basis for interdisciplinary units. Explore all types of integrated curriculum and how they bridge content standards to authentic, relevant learning experiences. And understand how to create interdisciplinary units that provide data-based evidence of student learning. A planning template and detailed examples of successful integrated curriculums are included to help you implement integrated curriculum in practice. Discover how you can make learning more exciting for students--and rewarding for you.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: What Is Integrated Curriculum?
- Chapter 2: Why Integrate the Curriculum in an Era of Accountability?
- Chapter 3: Creating the KNOW/DO/BE Bridge
- Chapter 4: Using Standards to Integrate the Curriculum
- Chapter 5: Aligning Assessment and Instruction with the KNOW/DO/BE Bridge
- Chapter 6: A Template for Planning Interdisciplinary Curriculum
- Chapter 7: Castles, Kings . . . and Standards: One Classroomâs Experience with Integrated Curriculum
- Chapter 8: Making Connections: A Multidisciplinary Model
- Chapter 9: A Mission to Transform Education: Newsome Park Elementary School
- Chapter 10: The Alpha Program: Students as Standards-Based Curriculum Designers
- Chapter 11: Questions and Answers
- Chapter 12: The Future of Integrated Curriculum: Stilling the Pendulum
- Appendix A: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Template for the Medieval Times Unit
- Appendix B: Making Connections Template and Rubric
- Appendix C: Alpha Program Planning Sheet, Rubric, and Individualized Self- Assessment Criteria
- Additional Resources
- References
- Index
- About the Authors
- Related ASCD Resources
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