Pedagogical+Practices+(mod+3)+G3

=**How do I ensure that students meet standards - and meet enough of them to make the effort worthwhile - in open ended activities and projects?**=


 * = **Concerns** ||= **Solutions** ||
 * = Balanced and comprehensive accountability systems ||= Using intergrated curriculum to improving student achievement: Creating rigorous, relevant, and engaging curriculum. ||
 * Alignment of standards, curriculum, and assessments || Using the standards to integrate the curriculum: Using Alignment to create a coherent curriculum. ||
 * The promise of Standard-Based Reform || Planning the interdisciplinary curriculum ||
 * Sufficient resources and support for each child to meet high standards || Using models to develop interdisciplinary curriculum: The Alpha Program: Students become the standard in curriculum design. ||
 * How educators and the community work together to developed curriculum and assessment plans || Development of Curriculum Assessment plans. ||
 * Adequate professional development for teachers and principals || Teachers must be knowledgeable about state and local standards, about the content they teach, and about a range of instructional approaches that will enable them to help all students. Teachers and administrators must understand how to use information from assessments and student work to improve instruction for both individual students and school programs. ||
 * Communication about the importance of standards and accountability || There must be on going dialogue between educators, parents, and civic leaders to understand the issuses concerning standards and accountability. ||