Chapter 7 - Supervisors Engaging Curriculum and Assessment

Families of Teaching

As Brophy and Calhoun observe, "These families of models are by no means antithetical or mutually exclusive, although each represents a distinctive approach to teaching. Whereas debates about educational method seem to imply that schools and teachers should choose one approach or another or no approach at all, students need growth in all areas. For example, to tend the personal but not the social, or the informational but not the personal, does not make sense in the life of a growing student."

Let's review these families again with this Powerpoint Presentation. Families of Teaching http://aeon.csuhayward.edu/~jlopez/Fam/

What does the most current research on teachers show? Are there major differences between elementary and secondary teachers? View this Powerpoint Presentation for the latest. http://aeon.csuhayward.edu/~jlopez/EDUI6400/Research/index.htm

State Curricular Standards

School Style Can Raise Achievement Look at this opinion piece http://www.nber.org/digest/jul01/w7985.html

Here is an extensive collection of Core Curriculum, Standards, and Frameworks from a varieyt of states. http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/places/core.html

From your Internet reading of the last site listed, choose one state and describe in general terms their approach to curriculm standards.
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