Full Description
Translate the new standards into meaningful curriculum!
The Common Core State Standards offer a shared language that ensures consistency and accountability, while also giving you the flexibility to design a curriculum that's right for your students. Of course, knowing what you need to teach doesn't tell you how to teach it—and that's where curriculum integration expert Susan M. Drake comes in.
In this new edition of her classic text, Drake applies the essential principles of standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessment to today's unique challenges. Focusing on multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches, she provides guidance on
Unpacking the Common Core State Standards
Planning assessment tasks
Designing instructional strategies
Developing daily activities
Helping students connect essential questions to enduring understandings
Included are new examples of exemplary programs, discussion questions, a sample completed interdisciplinary curriculum, and activity suggestions for building your own standards-based integrated curriculum. This proven resource is the road map teachers and curriculum developers need to navigate the unfamiliar territory of the CCSS and to develop a curriculum that helps their students thrive.
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction: Personally Seeking Rigor and Relevance
1. What Is Interdisciplinary Curriculum?
Why Integrate the Curriculum?
Approaches to Integration
Degrees of Integration
A Summary of the Different Approaches to Integration
Discussion Questions and Suggested Activities
2. Accountability and Two-Dimensional Thinking
What Is Accountability?
What Is a Standards-Based Approach?
Two-Dimensional Thinking
The Know/Do/Be Umbrella
Designing Down
Designing Down and Interdisciplinary Work
Unpacking the Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Benefits of Curriculum Mapping
Discussion Questions and Suggested Activities
3. Snapshots of Exemplary Integrated Programs
Scofield Magnet Middle School, Stamford, Connecticut: The Stamford HP Catalyst Project
Shelburne Community School, Shelburne, Vermont: The Alpha Program
Miami Country Day School, Miami, Florida: Abess Center for Environmental Studies
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network
High Tech High, San Diego, California
Science Leadership Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jalen Rose Leadership Academy, Detroit, Michigan
Discussion Questions and Suggested Activities
4. Doing the Groundwork for Interdisciplinary Curriculum
What Is Worth Knowing?
What Is Worth Doing?
How Do We Want Our Students to Be?
The Scan and Cluster: Using the Zoom Lens to Identify the KDB
Creating the KDB Umbrella
Finding the Know
Finding the Do
Discovering the Be
Creating an Exploratory Web
Creating Essential Questions to Guide Curriculum Planning
Creating Essential Questions Across the Curriculum
Discussion Questions and Suggested Activities
5. How Do Teachers Know When Students Have Met Expectations?
Interdisciplinary Assessment
A Sample of a Rich Culminating Assessment Task
Planning Rich Culminating Assessment Tasks
Assessing the Development of Big Ideas and Enduring Understandings: An Example From a Fifth-Grade Unit
Planning for the Rich Culminating Assessment Task: An Example From a Fourth-Grade Unit
Discussion Question and Suggested Activities
6. Putting the Pieces Together
Designing Daily Activities and Assessments
Creating the Daily Activities/Assessments
The Seamless Integration of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Discussion Questions and Suggested Activities
Epilogue: Curriculum Integration in the 21st Century
Appendix A. A Completed Unit: Conservation Clubhouse by Cathy Griffin
Appendix B. A Standards-Based Grade 10 Curriculum Unit: Saga of Survival
Appendix C. A Rubric and Reflection Tool to Use as a Guide for Creating Your Own Standards-Based Interdisciplinary Curriculum
References
Index
