Deciding What to Teach and Test: Developing, Aligning, and Auditing the Curriculum (1-off Series)

By Fenwick W. English

Book Overview

Foreword by Larry E. Frase

The classic book on curriculum alignmentupdated for the 21st century

This seminal text on developing, aligning, and auditing curriculum has now been reissued to achieve even greater impact. Since the early 1990s, Deciding What to Teach and Test has been a key component in curriculum alignment and professional development programs across the country.

It is a powerful, up-to-date tool to help teachers become more involved in curriculum planning and practice. The Millennium Edition provides an updated perspective on improving student achievement with a new preface, foreword, and listing of recent research.

Betty Steffy and The Video Journal of Education have joined with Fenwick W. English and Corwin Press to offer this Millennium Edition, a video companion, and a new Facilitators Guide. Further background and depth to Englishs work is available in Developing, Aligning, and Auditing Curriculum, presented by The Video Journal of Education. This videotape offers a powerful personal presentation by English as he illustrates how to maximize student achievement by aligning what is written, taught, and tested.

To complete this extraordinary program, Betty Steffys Curriculum Alignment: A Facilitators Guide to Deciding What to Teach and Test offers a bridge between these two works. In it, Steffy shows educators how to create learning and staff development activities that apply and extend the ideas presented in the best-selling book and videotape.

Its a valuable time-saving kit for the busy administratorand available in a variety of configurations to fit any program and budget.

Purchase the individual book, Deciding What to Teach and Test, or the complete kit which includes the book, facilitator′s guide and video: the Curriculum Alignment Kit, ISBN: 0-8039-6848-5.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803968310
• ISBN13: 9780803968318
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Corwin
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Curriculum and instruction

This is a very good book for administrators but more useful to the classroom teacher. It was required reading for one of my administration classes. However, I think this book should have been required during my methods courses. It speaks of aligning curriculum and classroom instruction. The debate is whether to frontload (develop the curriculum and then choose the standardized test) or backload (develop the curriculum after choosing the test). The author talked about the tests measuring the children's life experiences and not totally testing subject mattter, which is why some standardized tests are bias. The role of the administrator in testing, as an instructional leader and not just a manager of people, was also discussed. This book is a must have for anyone who administers any type of test to other people.