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Author Psencik, Margaret Kay

Title Accelerating Student and Staff Learning : Purposeful Curriculum Collaboration
Published Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages)
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
Summary 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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Subject Learning.
Curriculum planning.
Group work in education.
Teaching teams.
Teaching teams
Curriculum planning
Group work in education
Learning
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781412971454
1412971454