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Clustering Standards in Integrated Units

Second Edition
By: Diane L. Ronis

Develop integrated, meaningful units that engage students and address multiple standards!

The author offers guidelines for designing interdisciplinary units that combine content areas, address standards, and involve students in their own learning and assessment. The text offers a framework for organizing, implementing, and evaluating units and includes sample rubrics, templates, and reproducibles for the planning process. Geared to meet students' individual learning needs, this book covers:

  • Integrating content across multiple curriculum areas
  • Applying new information about how the brain works to make instruction meaningful
  • Encouraging students to investigate questions relevant to the real world
  • Accessing specific Web sites for meeting state standards

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: K-12
  • ISBN: 9781412955577
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2007
  • Page Count: 168
  • Publication date: September 15, 2007
Price: $39.95
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Description

Description

"This book provides a wealth of information for teachers who are seeking new ways to meet the needs of all learners for high academic achievement!"
—Marguerita K. DeSander, Assistant Professor of Leadership and Policy Studies
The George Washington University

"Using this book as part of the alignment process will greatly enhance any classroom curriculum!"
—Joen M. Painter, Education Consultant

Develop integrated, meaningful units that engage students and address multiple standards!

Using a student-oriented approach, Clustering Standards in Integrated Units, Second Edition, offers guidelines for designing interdisciplinary units that combine content areas, address standards, and involve students in their own learning and assessment.

Diane L. Ronis offers a framework for organizing, implementing, and evaluating units and provides sample rubrics, templates, and reproducibles for the planning process. Drawing on a constructivist approach and geared to meet students' individual learning needs, the text demonstrates how to:

  • Integrate content across multiple curriculum areas
  • Make instruction meaningful using new information about how the brain works
  • Encourage students to pose and investigate questions relevant to the real world
  • Access specific Web sites for meeting state standards

This book helps seasoned and novice teachers facilitate collaborative learning with teams of students and assist them in making significant connections between their own experiences and events in the real world.


Key features

  • Includes authentic, real-world problems for students to navigate
  • Interdisciplinary units conclude each chapter
  • Units include appropriate instructional frameworks for planning, implementation, and evaluation
  • Aligned to standards throughout
  • Specific web sites are listed for different standards state-to-state
  • Organization and problem-based instruction rubrics
  • Appendix contains blackline masters (templates) for each planning instrument
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Diane L. Ronis

Diane Ronis is a professor of education at Southern Connecticut State University and has a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction. Her drive to make learning meaningful to all students comes from 17 years of teaching middle school and high school mathematics and fine arts as well as eight years of experience instructing preservice teachers at the college and graduate level. Ronis has been a presenter and keynote speaker at numerous conferences, workshops and seminars, and is the author of Brain Compatible Mathematics, Brain Compatible Assessments, Critical Thinking in Math, Problem Based Learning for Math & Science: Integrating Inquiry and the Internet, and Clustering Standards in Integrated Units.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Unit Components: Tools for Building Units

2. Organizing Instruction for Meaning: Planning for Learning and Achievement

3. How to Build a Better Rubric: Developing a Unit Assessment Plan

4. Unit Panorama: Using the Unit Planning Map and the Unit Overview

5. The Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan: Facilitating Investigation

Appendix I. Content Area Standards

Appendix II. Planning Forms

Bibliography

Index

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