Books by Helen L. Burz

Teachers can use these practical classroom applications to customize relevant and meaningful instruction around critical music and visual arts concepts.

Performance-Based Curriculum for Language Arts offers you a framework for a logical, incremental transition to a performance-based orientation.

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.

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.

Based on the content and performance standards developed by the United States' National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, this is a step-by-step guide to developing performance-based curriculum. Replete with specific examples, the book reflects all the requirements of restructured curriculum including student identification of the problem to be solved and the use of multiple problem-solving strategies.