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Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum

The Common Core State Standards Edition

Third Edition
By: Susan M. Drake

This updated edition serves as a road map through the CCSS, with clear guidance on multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches to creating your own integrated curriculum.

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781452218809
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2012
Page Count: 232
Publication date: May 08, 2012

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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.

Key features

Provides a new approach to standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessment
Utilizes a framework that allows for multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches to curriculum integration
Covers planning assessment tasks, designing instructional strategies, developing daily activities, and connecting big questions to big understandings
Includes end-of-chapter discussion questions and suggested activities to piece together a complete standards-based curriculum

Author(s)

Susan M. Drake

Susan M. Drake is a professor in the Graduate and Undergraduate Department of Brock University, St. Catharines, ON. She earned a PhD in curriculum from the University of Toronto. She has taught at all levels of education. She taught physical education and Health and English for 18 years at the high school level. She worked on school improvement teams at the elementary level and spent one year as an elementary teacher. As well, she was a partner in a private adult education company that provided organizational development, consulting and adult learning courses. Today, Susan teaches curriculum/assessment courses for Masters of Education and doctoral students and for undergraduate students who will soon be entering the teaching field. As a researcher, she seeks out educators who are involved in exemplary practices, as she believes that a good practice makes good theory. This is Susan’s seventh book on the topic of curriculum integration and she has published over 48 articles and 9 book chapters. She coauthored Meeting Standards Through Integrated Curriculum (2004) for ASCD with Rebecca Burns. As well, she authored Creating Integrated Curriculum (1998) for Corwin Press (1998) and Planning for Integrated Curriculum: The Call to Adventure (1993) for ASCD. She has lead interdisciplinary curriculum design teams from the school to the provincial level. Susan travels extensively and has done workshops/presentations across North America and in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Table of 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

Reviews

"This book offers a fine text that applies the basics of standards-based curriculum and instruction to different approaches to implementation."

Midwest Book Review, October 2012

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