Accelerating Student and Staff Learning : Purposeful Curriculum Collaboration.

This targeted staff development approach helps teachers collaborate in professional learning teams to gain a deep understanding of content and create a school-based curriculum tied to standards.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Psencik, Margaret Kay
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction; Chapter 1
  • An Overview: Collaborative Curriculum Design as Professional Learning; Chapter 2
  • Establishing Assumptions About Student and Staff Learning; Chapter 3
  • Determining Complex Curriculum Standards and Concepts; Chapter 4
  • Mapping the Curriculum; Chapter 5
  • Assessment of Student Learning; Chapter 6
  • Designing Instruction; Chapter 7
  • Analyzing Student Work and Monitoring Student Learning to Inform Instruction; Chapter 8
  • Using Effective Grading and Parent Reporting Practices.
  • Chapter 9
  • Leading Schools to Sustain the Effort and Fulfill the PromiseResources; Resource A: Our Assumptions About Student and Staff Learning; Resource B: The Principles of Professional Learning; Resource C: Our Vision of Our School Iduma Elementary School Killeen ISD Killeen, TX; Resource D: A Learning Walk; Resource E: We Are a School Community That Values Learning; Resource F: Our Learning Community's Norms; Resource G: Quakertown High School Goals; Resource H: Example Letter to Parents; Resource I: Critical Attributes of a Performance Task or Project.
  • Resource J: Template for Culminating DemonstrationsResource K: Example of a Second-Grade, First-Term Culminating Demonstration; Resource L: Example of a Second-Grade, Third-Term Culminating Demonstrations; Resource M: Precision in Adverbs; Resource N: Exemplary Rubric: Middle Ages Scoring Guide; Resource O: Culminating Demonstration Rubric for First-Grade Students at Heritage Elementary; Resource P: Kindergarten Literacy Lesson Plans; References; Index.