Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum The Common Core State Standards Edition by Susan M. Drake

Translate the new standards into meaningful curriculum!

The Common Core State Standards offer a shared language that ensures consistency and accountability, while also giving you the flexibility to design a curriculum that′s right for your students. Of course, knowing what you need to teach doesn′t tell you how to teach it--and that′s where curriculum integration expert Susan M. Drake comes in.

In this new edition of her classic text, Drake applies the essential principles of standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessment to today′s unique challenges. Focusing on multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches, she 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 activity suggestions for building your own standards-based integrated curriculum. This proven resource is the road map teachers and curriculum developers need to navigate the unfamiliar territory of the CCSS and to develop a curriculum that helps their students thrive.