School Information: About Farragut CSD

District Curriculum

November 10, 2004

Curriculum

Farragut CSD is actively involved in the Cooperative Curriculum program offered by Loess Hills Area Education Agency 13. Teachers from over twenty school districts gather each year to update curriculum guides that are provided to each district. A rotation is set up to ensure that each area of the curricula is revisited regularly. In-service time is used to complete the development process. A coordinating committee including the building principals facilitates work on the curriculum and includes a teacher from the elementary, and a teacher from the secondary.

Student achievement is the number one goal at Farragut Community School District. The district uses a variety of ways to measure the success of students. Classroom teachers assess student learning every day in a multitude of ways, both formally and informally. Classroom discussions, quizzes, homework, reports, projects and tests are among the tools used to measure each student's progress. Individual testing in reading and math is administered throughout the
school year. Standardized testing takes place in the spring for the high school with the Iowa Test of Educational Development (ITED) and the Iowa Test of Basic Skills is administered to the Elementary and Junior High.