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Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum: The Common Core State Standards Edition
Contributor(s): Drake, Susan M. (Author)

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ISBN: 1452218803     ISBN-13: 9781452218809
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
OUR PRICE: $38.90  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Curricula
Dewey: 375.000
LCCN: 2012009206
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7" W x 9.9" L (1.10 lbs) 232 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Translate the new standards into meaningful curriculum!

This updated edition of Susan Drake's classic text serves as a road map through the Common Core State Standards, giving you the flexibility to design an integrated curriculum that's right for your students. Focusing on multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches, Drake 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 activities for building your own standards-based integrated curriculum.


Contributor Bio(s): Drake, Susan M.: - 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.
 
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