Restructuring Around Standards: A Practitioner's Guide to Design and Implementation / Edition 1

by Terry J. Foriska

Overview

This practical, hands-on guide leads you through the process of developing and implementing standards for your school or district.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803966833
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/24/1998
Series:	One-off Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	3 Months

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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.

Journal of Staff Development

Foriska offers a 'how to' guide for identifying, designing, and structuring a school’s 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.

CHOICE, 1999 - R. C. Morris

Foriska offers a 'how to' guide for identifying, designing, and structuring a school’s 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.

CHOICE, 1999 - R.C. Morris