Curriculum Development & Learning Standards
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- All Things Assessment Supplies research, articles, data, and tools for teachers who are developing formative and summative assessments to their curriculum.
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
- Authentic Assessment Toolbox Jon Mueller, a professor at North Central College, presents the Authentic Assessment model.
- Authentic Education Discusses what Understanding by Design is.
- Byrdseed Ian Byrd provides teachers with tools and advice on how to create lesson plans that are engaging and promote critical thinking.
- Content Specific Core Content for Assessment DOK Support Materials The Kentucky Department of Education provides materials for teachers to help them understand assessment with DOK.
- Cult of Pedagogy Explores the teaching world including backward design, remote learning, and more.
- The Differentiator This tools helps teachers write objectives using Bloom's Taxonomy, Kaplan and Gould's Depth and Complexity, and David Chung's product menu.
- Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding Presents 53 ways to check for understanding and defines formative, summative, and alternative assessments.
- Essential Questions Jay McTighe's site about essential questions has links to resources, videos and more to assist teachers in coming up with effective essential questions.
- A Giant List of Really Good Essential Questions Lists a variety of examples of essential questions for educators.
- McTighe & Associates: Resources Gathers websites, downloads, articles, and videos relating to Understanding by Design, essential questions, performance based assessments, and more.
- Performance Task PD with Jay McTighe Presents a seven part discussion about performance tasks: what it is, why it should be used, designing performance tasks, technology integrations, assessing, and more.
- STEM to STEAM: Resources Toolkit Compiles resources to integrate curriculum to STEAM.
- Tools for Formative Assessment Describes 60 different activities that teachers can adapt into their lessons to check for understanding.
- Understanding by Design Framework The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development presents this white page written by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.
- What Makes a Question Essential? Discusses how to create essential questions and what makes them different from questions that hook, questions that guide, and questions that lead.
- What Is Backward Design? This PDF presents chapter 1 from Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe explaining what is Backward Design.
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Learning Standards |
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- ACT College and Career Readiness Standards ACT lists its College and Career Readiness Standards in the areas of English, Mathematics, Reading, Science, and Writing.
- CASEL SEL Competencies Presents the framework of five social-emotional learning competencies: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision-Making.
- Common Core Conversation Explains the standards of the Common Core but more importantly lists resources to assist teachers in the integration of the standards to their curriculum.
- Common Core State Standards Explains what the Common Core is, how it was created, and why it is important.
- Illinois Learning Standards Describes the learning standards for the state of Illinois which include the Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, and more.
- Illinois Standards Aligned Instruction for LIbraries (I-SAIL) "The purpose of I-SAIL is to empower, educate, and encourage school library information specialists to plan strategically with other teachers to incorporate information literacy skills in lessons and thereby provide college and career readiness for students."-- from website.
- International Society for Technology in Education Standards Discusses the importance of including technology with instruction.
- Next Generation Science Standards Discusses the Next Generation Science Standards including how they came about, what they are, and resources in implementing the standards.
- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math: Education for Global Leadership Discusses the STEM education program from the Department of Education.
- STEM Works Gathers resources, activities, and more to help teachers incorporate STEM into their curriculum.
- Understanding the Common Core Presents articles that explain the Common Core State Standards.
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