Helen L. Burz – författare

Beyond knowledge and contentToo often, students are not able to demonstrate what they have learned—especially in music and art. This book provides a unique model for transforming the instructional focus from content centered to student centered, using performance-based standards for music and the visual arts. The authors offer a concise, easy-to-understand framework of curriculum, instruction, and assessment built upon performance-based learning actions. Teachers can use these practical classroom applications to customize relevant and meaningful instruction around critical musical and artistic concepts.Numerous real-life examples of performance-based fine arts are illustrated along with performance benchmarks for Grades 3, 5, 8, and 12. This framework can be used to guide the development of a music and visual arts curriculum throughout a family of schools, by an instructional team, or by individual teachers within one classroom.This book is divided into five major sections: Overview with question-and-answer formatStandards and performance benchmarks for the visual artsStandards and performance benchmarks for musicGuide to using technology to support performance benchmarksGuide to planning and analyzing performancesPerformance design templates and reproducible masters provide practical tools to empower students to "show what they know."

Beyond knowledge and contentToo often, students are not able to demonstrate what they have learned—especially in music and art. This book provides a unique model for transforming the instructional focus from content centered to student centered, using performance-based standards for music and the visual arts. The authors offer a concise, easy-to-understand framework of curriculum, instruction, and assessment built upon performance-based learning actions. Teachers can use these practical classroom applications to customize relevant and meaningful instruction around critical musical and artistic concepts.Numerous real-life examples of performance-based fine arts are illustrated along with performance benchmarks for Grades 3, 5, 8, and 12. This framework can be used to guide the development of a music and visual arts curriculum throughout a family of schools, by an instructional team, or by individual teachers within one classroom.This book is divided into five major sections: Overview with question-and-answer formatStandards and performance benchmarks for the visual artsStandards and performance benchmarks for musicGuide to using technology to support performance benchmarksGuide to planning and analyzing performancesPerformance design templates and reproducible masters provide practical tools to empower students to "show what they know."

Take your students far beyond the traditions of accumulating knowledge and basic skills—teach them to account for their education by demonstrating measurable learning performance in meaningful ways.

Based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NTCM) standards, this framework for a math curriculum will help you develop a performance-based program for your mathematics classes. The authors provide

Performance benchmarks to assess progress at Grades 3,5,8, and 12 Guides for customizing math instruction toward meaningful application and demonstration of knowledge Templates and reproducible masters to customize so your students can "show what they know" Technology connections to apply measurable learning techniques to computer-aided classrooms

Burz and Marshall include real-world applications, multiple-problem-solving strategies—including ways to help students learn how to show what they know—and other curriculum requirements for your restructured classroom.

Burz and Marshall have clarified the NCTM standards and they've made it easy for you to translate them into workable performance-based curricula. This unique model for mathematics will help take your teaching—and your students' learning—all the way From Knowing to Showing.

Performance-Based Curriculum for Social Studies offers you a unique model for creating school, district, or classroom curricula that shifts the focus—from content alone — to a more balanced one that aligns curriculum quality and context with content. offers you a unique model for creating school, district, or classroom curricula that shifts the focus—from content alone — to a more balanced one that aligns curriculum quality and context with content. Here′s a framework for designing your own performance-based curriculum. Based on the standards set by the National Council for the Social Studies, this guide presents examples drawn from real-life contexts, with specific benchmarks for Grades 3, 5, 8, and 12. These practical tools help you assess your program′s effectiveness on a continuing basis.The benchmarks and examples will allow you to teach your students how they can:Identify the problem to be solved Use multiple problem-solving strategies Apply what they learn to other problems Be able to show how and why as well as whatOne section looks closely at the technology connections for school curriculum. It examines how the five central learning actions in performance-based curriculum—access, interpret, produce, disseminate, and evaluate—can be greatly enhanced when used in conjunction with technology. In addition, it shows you how your curriculum can incorporate technology as content.Put together a curriculum that helps your students learn how to learn, not just memorize data. Engage your students in actively acquiring knowledge. Teach them how to "show what they know" by applying what they′ve learned to real-life situations—and that learning never stops. The book includes templates and reproducible masters to make designing your own curriculum easier.

This guide shows you how to develop a performance-based curriculum based on nationally recommended standards. Use these benchmarks and assessments to take your students beyond knowledge and basic skills by teaching them to be accountable for showing what they are learning. Your students will apply their knowledge in a learning performance can 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, and evaluation will be oriented toward having your students apply what they've learning in meaningful ways.

Performance-Based Curriculum for Science offers you a framework for a logical, incremental transition to a performance-based orientation. Provides performance benchmarks to assess progress at Grades 3, 5, 8, and 12. Offers key competencies, concepts, and content that all students should know.

Benchmarks and examples follow national science standards by

Having students identify the problem to be solved Using multiple problem-solving strategies Providing real-world applications of problem solving

Also includes templates you can customize and use for teaching your students to "show what they know" and technology connections to apply measurable, performance-based learning to computer-aided classrooms.

Written for school and district wide administrators, professional development specialists, science department heads, and individual science teachers who wish to develop performance-based assessments for their classrooms.