The Curriculum Bridge: From Standards to Actual Classroom Practice
by Pearl Gold Solomon (9781412969840)

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. Topics covered include written curriculum and hidden curriculum; juggling stakeholder needs; educational planning and public policy; the impact of new technologies; what we now know about how learning takes place; 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 today's reflective teachers succeed in meeting students' educational needs.The third edition provides an up-to-date picture of the education sub-culture in the context of its interactions with the greater cultures in which educators and students reside. This edition also examines the rapidly expanding body of findings of research in the areas of curriculum and learning, assessment, education-related neuroscience, and professional development.

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