curriculum planning

Explains how the curriculum planning model Understanding by Design (UbD) and the teaching model Differentiated Instruction (DI) fit together and can be integrated for student success, discussing such topics as responsive teaching with UbD and assessment in academically diverse classrooms.

Presents a curriculum model that focuses on developing the abilities of all students and extending the abilities of those performing at advanced levels, with resources designed to help teachers of kindergarten through twelfth grade determine student performance levels, develop intellectual challenges, and plan a differentiated curriculum, and includes curriculum units, sample rubrics, and improvement tables.

A guide to combining curriculum design with teaching methods that encourage students to learn concepts and well as content and skills in all subject areas that offers teachers practical tips for designing curriculum and instruction that foster the continuous growth and development of students' key skills.

Presents an explanation of the six aspects understanding and learning, examining ways to design curriculums to engage students in exploring and deepening their understanding of important ideas.

Explores six different facets of understanding; examines ways to design curriculums to engage students in exploring and deepening their understanding of important ideas; and discusses how to design assessments that reveal the extent of student understanding.

The introduction states: "[T]he only reason our schools haven't made astonishing progress in the last 30 years of "reform" is quite simple: very few schools ever implemented 'what is essential'--the most powerful, simple actions and structures that would dramatically increase the proportion of students prepared for college or careers. What is 'essential' for schools? Three simple things: reasonably coherent curriculum (what we teach); sound lessons (how we teach); and far more purposeful reading and writing in every discipline, or authentic literacy (integral to both what and how we teach).

Contains articles that discuss ideas to improve and update the K-12 curriculum to prepare students for life in the twenty-first century, covering content and assessments, program structures, technology and media literacy, globalization, sustainability, and the thinking habits of students, teachers, and administrators.

Argues that art programs should be a core part of all school curriculum, explaining how integrating art into all areas of study can improve students' brain function and comprehension.

Presents twenty-six units for use in intermediate and middle school classrooms that show how to use literature to teach the math concepts of geometry, measurement, computation and estimation, statistics, algebra, patterns, and functions, and number relationships, systems, and theory.

Presents a supplement to classroom education in order to help second graders progress in school and be effective in society.