Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum: Aligning Curriculum, Content, Assessment, and Instruction

"The content is powerful. Seeing examples from all grade levels is important so that each reader, regardless of teaching level, can see that it can be done in his or her situation."
―Sue DeLay, Curriculum Resource Teacher, Oak Creek Franklin School District, WI

"Contains real-life examples of integration, including examples of the author′s own experience in the classroom, making the work much more appealing and credible for teachers."
―Mary Ann Kahl, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, National-Louis University

"This is the first book I have read that lays out a big picture that I can buy into and explains how to look at accountability in a positive way."
―Jane Adair, Resource Specialist, Long Beach Polytechnic High School, CA

Help your learners connect big questions to big understandings!

In today′s accountability-driven environment, educators strive to develop an integrated, relevant, and measurable curriculum while also presenting engaging subject matter that inspires student learning. In this completely revised edition of the classic text, Susan M. Drake provides a new approach to standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessment that helps educators identify what students must know, do, and be. This invaluable resource also offers:

• A framework allowing for multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches to curriculum integration
• Sample models of integrated curriculum in action
• Practical suggestions to simplify curriculum alignment and integration
• Insights based on real classroom experience to connect the framework to the real world
• End-of-chapter discussion questions and suggested activities

Discover how you can create an integrated, standards-based curriculum that inspires your students, and then watch them thrive.

Susan M. Drake is a professor in the Graduate and Undergraduate Department of Brock University, St. Catharines, ON. She earned a PhD in curriculum from the University of Toronto. She has taught at all levels of education. She taught physical education and Health and English for 18 years at the high school level. She worked on school improvement teams at the elementary level and spent one year as an elementary teacher. As well, she was a partner in a private adult education company that provided organizational development, consulting and adult learning courses. Today, Susan teaches curriculum/assessment courses for Masters of Education and doctoral students and for undergraduate students who will soon be entering the teaching field. As a researcher, she seeks out educators who are involved in exemplary practices, as she believes that a good practice makes good theory. This is Susan’s seventh book on the topic of curriculum integration and she has published over 48 articles and 9 book chapters. She coauthored Meeting Standards Through Integrated Curriculum (2004) for ASCD with Rebecca Burns. As well, she authored Creating Integrated Curriculum (1998) for Corwin Press (1998) and Planning for Integrated Curriculum: The Call to Adventure (1993) for ASCD. She has lead interdisciplinary curriculum design teams from the school to the provincial level. Susan travels extensively and has done workshops/presentations across North America and in Europe, Asia and Africa.