Icle Rigorous and Relevant Curriculum Design: Rigorous and Relevant Curriculum Design - Larry Ainsworth

nRigorous Curriculum Design (RCD) presents a carefully sequenced, hands-on model for educators and curriculum designers. The RCD model has proven to be effective in school districts across the US, and it serves as a road map so that educators may design a progression of units of study that keep standards, instruction, and assessment tightly focused and connected. n Applicable to every grade, course, and content area--and fitting in to all sets of standards, you will learn: n n- What a rigorous curriculum is and how to create, sequence, and pace such a curriculum. n- Why seeing the 'big picture' connections first is essential to beginning curriculum design. n- How to lay the foundational steps for designing a rigorous pre-K-12 curriculum. n- How to design a grade- or course-specific curricular unit of study, from start to finish. n- How to use formative assessments and data analysis to guide instruction before, during, and after each unit. n- How leaders can organize, implement, and sustain this model throughout the school and/or school system. This new edition of RCD shares updates and enhancements to the process, gained through nearly a decade of learnings from myriad schools. Updates and new additions include: n Greater applicability to every state's unique set of learning standards, through Standards examples that illustrate each step. n- An important new focus on relevance in the design of rigorous curricular units of study, meaning the inclusion of real-world problems that are both predictable and unpredictable, situations that afford students the opportunity to apply their learning in realistic contexts n- Expansion of content to include lessons learned by school and district leaders who are in years 1, 2, and 3 of RCD implementation n- Success stories from school systems that have implemented the RCD model and experienced improved student learning on state exams