Performance-Based Curriculum for Language Arts

Use this book as your guide to develop a performance-based curriculum based on language arts standards recommended by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association. Take your students beyond knowledge and basic skills by teaching them to be accountable for showing what they are learning.Using this performance orientation requires your students to apply their knowledge in a learning performance you can both observe and measure. Educators parents business and industry leaders and community member throughout the nation want students to be able to demonstrate what they learn. Shifting the focus from knowing to showing means your instruction curriculum assessment evaluation and reporting will be oriented around these learning performances.