School districts are now successfully implementing the Rigorous Curriculum Design process to redesign their curricula to fulfill the promise of the Common Core and prepare students for success on the coming national assessments. Each chapter of Getting Started With Rigorous Curriculum Design will provide educators with “collective wisdom” — insights and ideas to enrich and expand understandings they may not have yet come to on their own.
Rigorous Curriculum Design presents a carefully sequenced, hands-on model that curriculum designers and educators in every school system can follow to create a progression of units of study that keeps all areas tightly focused and connected ...
In this expanded, all-new edition, author Larry Ainsworth provides a system of intentionally aligned components (standards, instruction, assessments, and data analysis) that all work together to improve student learning.
′A powerful resource. The authors clarify the terminology of assessment with painstaking precision and offer specific, practical steps to help educators develop their assessment literacy′ - Richard DuFour, Educational Author...
Educator Larry Ainsworth, author of best-selling books on CFA, will guide you through a step-by-step approach to build a powerful assessment program, supported by user-friendly templates and graphic organizers.
Chapters present a rationale for prioritizing the Common Core, a step-by-step process for prioritizing standards in language arts and mathematics, strategies for soliciting feedback and input from everyone in the district or school prior to ...
... Grade for Learning (O'Connor, 2nd ed., 2009) Developing Standards-Based Report Cards (Guskey & Bailey, 2009) Grading Exceptional and Struggling Learners (Jung & Guskey, 2012) Practical Solutions for Serious Problems in Standards-Based ...
This book will guide principals in working with teachers to generate meaningful curricula which will raise the level of learning – and teaching – in your school.
Getting Started Barbara R. Blackburn. References. Ainsworth, L. (2010). Rigorous curriculum design.Englewood, CO: Advanced Learning Press. Ainsworth, L. (2003). Power standards. Englewood, CO: Advanced Learning Press. Allen, J. (2000) ...
Presents a multifaceted model of understanding, which is based on the premise that people can demonstrate understanding in a variety of ways.
Using a backwards design approach, this hands-on guide walks teachers step-by-step through the process of identifying curricular goals, establishing assessment targets, and planning curriculum and instruction that facilitates the transfer ...