Curriculum at Your Core by Lauren Porosoff - 9781475813104

Curriculum at Your CoreMeaningful Teaching in the Age of Standards\nAuthor(s): Lauren Porosoff\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781475813104, 978-1475813104\nSynopsis\nCurriculum at Your Core is a practical guide to designing curriculum that meets standards, serves personal and institutional values, and intentionally leads to successful student learning. Identifying which understandings, knowledge, and skills are most important for students to learn is always a question of values, so getting clear on values gives teachers a starting place to design cohesive units, courses, and programs. Written by a teacher for teachers, Curriculum at Your Core includes stories, examples, and case studies from across grade levels and subjects, as well as exercises, protocols, and templates teachers can use when writing values-congruent curriculum. Some key features include:\nstories of failures and successes in designr