Unwrapping the Standards - A Simple Process to Make Standards Manageable

222 Pages Indexed. Tight straight book with no marks or stamps. Text pages are flawless. The process of unwrapping the standards is a simple and powerful practice to help educators realize higher student achievement levels in all content areas. Unwrapped standards clarify what students must know and be able to do. When educators analyze each standard and identify its essential concepts and skills, the result is more effective instructional planning, assessment, and learning. In this book the author guides educators through each phase of the unwrapping standards process. By sharing the many success stories of K-12 educators across the country, Ainsworth explains how to identify the Big Ideas that educators want their students to remember long after instruction ends. Included in this book are more than 80 examples of unwrapped standards from a variety of content areas and grade levels. Also included are ready-to-use checklists and templates to help educators immediately apply this simple, proven technique for making the standards manageable. The author explains that certain standards are more important than others. Find out how to create a prioritized subset of your state or district standards-and how you can improve student achievement by first identifying the standards that matter the most.…