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 StandardsPlanning assessment tasksDesigning instructional strategiesDeveloping daily activitiesHelping students connect essential questions to enduring understandingsIncluded 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. 

318 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2012

Reviews

[Virginia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Drake has good ideas and some fairly easy-to-follow plans for how to managing integration of curriculum. The book is fairly reader-friendly given the diagrams and other figures included to help illustrate her points. A good read for those interested in integrating curriculum.

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a quick read on specific approaches to integrated curriculum. It included lots of examples and tries to walk you step by step through the process of creation.