The process of focusing curriculum on predetermined goals or benchmarks that identify the content students should understand and the skills they should have after completing an area of study is best described as: standards-based education. Anya Kuertan, an eighth-grade American history teacher, teaches a week-long unit on the American Civil War. ...
The null curriculum. Whenever Calvin Green's students are unable to answer in question and answer sessions, he prompts them until they can give an acceptable answer. "I want them to learn that being uncertain is all a part of the learning process," Calvin explains.