Perspectives on Curriculum Development, 1776-1976

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development

A six-step conflict resolution process provides an alternative to traditional discipline and helps teachers and students resolve such everyday problems as teasing, put-downs, hitting, and cheating.

Talk It Out: Conflict Resolution in the Elementary Classroom

Education & Teaching

Porro, Barbara

Schools & Teaching

Offers a model and processes for designing standards-based units of study to use in the classroom and provides practical examples of how to develop standards into units of study.

How to Use Standards in the Classroom

Harris, Douglas E.

Carr, Judy

In Mapping the Big Picture, Heidi Hayes Jacobs describes a seven-step process for creating and working with curriculum maps, from data collection to ongoing curriculum review. She discusses the importance of asking "essential questions" and of designing assessments that reflect what teachers know about the students in their care. She also offers a viable alternative to the "curriculum committees" that are part of almost every school district in the United States.

Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12 (Professional Development)

Reference

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

English as a Second Language

Looks at leadership in schools and offers stories of three schools--an elementary school with low leadership capacity, a middle school with moderate leadership capacity, and a high school with high leadership capacity--revealing how educators can lead their communities to improve student learning.

Building Leadership Capacity in Schools

Lambert, Linda

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowing? What do we want students to understand and be able to do? What enduring knowledge is worth understanding? How will we know that students truly understand and can apply knowledge in a meaningful way? How can we design our courses and units to emphasize understanding and "uncoverage" rather than "coverage"? Understanding by Design explores these questions and provides practical solutions for the teacher-designer. 
The book opens by analyzing the logic of backward design as an alternative to coverage and activity-oriented plans. Though backward from habit, this approach brings more focus and coherence to instruction. 
Authors Wiggins and McTighe propose a multifaceted approach, with the six "facets" of understanding. The facets combine with backward design to provide a powerful, practical framework for designing curriculum, assessment, and instruction. 
Beyond its theories, Understanding by Design offers practical design tools, including criteria for selecting "big ideas" worthy of deep understanding, strategies for framing units of study around essential questions, a continuum of assessment methods for determining the degree to which students understand, and the WHERE framework, which enhances student engagement and "rethinking." The book concludes with a unit design template and standards to support quality control at the local level. 
Understanding by Design will help educators enhance their understanding of understanding, so that the curriculum and assessments they design truly focus on enhancing the understanding of their students.

Understanding by Design

McTighe, Jay

Wiggins, Grant

Advocates adding lighthearted humor to make meetings more productive and effective.

Energize Your Meetings with Laughter

Business & Money

Feigelson, Sheila

Management & Leadership

Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, author Carol Ann Tomlinson describes a way of thinking about teaching and learning that will change all aspects of how you approach students and your classroom. She looks to the latest research on learning, education, and change for the theoretical basis of differentiated instruction and why it's so important to today's children. Yet she offers much more than theory, filling the pages with real-life examples of teachers and students using-and benefitting from-differentiated instruction.

The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners

Tomlinson, Carol Ann

This book explores how school leaders can develop responsive, personalized, and differentiated classrooms. Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small group of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

Leadership for Differentiating Schools & Classrooms

Carol Ann Tomlinson

Susan Demirsky Allan

In this 2nd edition of a book that has provided inspiration to countless teachers, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers three new chapters, extended examples and information in every chapter, and field-tested strategies that teachers can use in today's increasingly diverse classrooms. Tomlinson shows how to use students' readiness levels, interests, and learning profiles to address student diversity.

How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, 2nd Edition (Professional Development)

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