How to Set Up A Standards Based Learning Classroom

One of the people who has posted the most on my blogs is Frank Franz who teaches government and World History I.  In the last year he has posted less because he was focused on implementing a standards based teaching approach.

He has written a short tutorial on how he did it last year and how you can as well, complete with lots of links.  For example he discussed

• setting objectives
• proficiency scoring - which he based on formative tests.  
• summative tests 
• re-takes of summative tests which are only given on the portion of the objective that was not proficient and were not given unless students could show proficiency in a topic
• what goes into the gradebook (hint - only summative which he explains)