The Curriculum Bridge : From Standards to Actual Classroom Practice

Schools and districts are under increasing pressure to adopt rigorous academic standards and to ensure accountability to the public and the legislatures. The difficulty is to translate the standards into classroom curriculum assessments. This book will show them how. The author clarifies the language of standards and assessment, leads the reader step-by-step through identifying the standards and developing various types of assessments, and provides numerous tables and templates to assist them.