The Curriculum Bridge: From Standards To Actual Classroom Practice

This third edition of the author's award-winning book about curriculum, content standards, teaching, and testing keeps a solid focus on today's critical issues of accountability and best classroom practices for teaching and learning. The Curriculum Bridge, Third Edition, includes topics such as written curriculum and hidden curriculum; juggling stakeholder needs; educational planning and public policy; the impact of new technologies; and what we now know about how learning takes place. The author also covers classroom discourse and management; traditional, alternative, and high-stakes assessments; and how best to plan and implement professional development and action research to ensure that reflective teachers succeed in meeting students' educational needs. This revised edition provides an up-to-date picture of education's subculture and interactions with the broader cultures in which educators and students participate and also examines the rapidly expanding body of research on curriculum and learning, assessment, education-related neuroscience, and professional development.