The New Kindergarten: Teaching Reading, Writing, & More
by Constance Leuenberger
from Teaching Resources
- Teacher's guide to setting up your Kindergarten class
Offering easy to read ideas for setting up learning centers, organizing your day, managing behavior, and meeting standards. Plus ideas for getting parents involved. The step-by-step walk-through of daily activities are sure to make your day easier! 224 pages.
Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching And Learning
from Harvard Educational Pub Group
In the wake of the accountability movement, school administrators are inundated with data about their students. How can they use this information to support student achievement? This book presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders. It shows how examining test scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will enhance schools' ability to capture teachers' knowledge, foster collaboration, identify obstacles to change, and enhance school culture and climate.
The National Board Certification Workbook, Second Edition: How to Develop Your Portfolio and Prepare for the Assessment Exams
by Adrienne Mack-Kirschner
from Heinemann
The first edition of The National Board Certification Workbook offered you top-notch preparation for the National Board certification process. Now the second edition, with 40% new material, goes even further, taking you through every step of the process, and giving you the guidance you need to achieve certification.
Adrienne Mack-Kirschner's work as a National Board support provider makes her the ideal person to advise certification candidates, and her workbook is the next-best thing to attending her workshops. In addition to the comprehensive forms, checklists, and step-by-step portfolio instructions from the first edition, she's now expanded the workbook to include more guidelines for documenting your instruction with video as well as many useful suggestions on understanding the assessment exams and succeeding on them.
Beginning with Personal Inventory Sheets keyed to the Core Propositions, right through scoring your own work, Mack-Kirschner offers numerous helpful tools, including:- best-practices charts
- guides to videotaping your teaching and analyzing the footage
- graphic organizers for thinking through your practice
- data-collection techniques for correlation with student achievement
- plentiful opportunities for self-reflection and assessment
- updated information about the new portfolio requirements
- strategic advice about taking the NB assessment examinations.
The National Board has raised the standards for the profession and brought a new level of distinction to its certified teachers because it requires "clear, consistent, and convincing evidence" of meeting its demanding standards. How do you measure up? Where do you need to stretch and grow? Use The National Board Certification Workbook, Second Edition, in conjunction with The Teacher's Guide to National Board Certification and find out how to examine your teaching practices and present the evidence of your classroom excellence in a way that helps your professionalism shine brightly.
Making Standards Work, 3rd Edition: How to Implement Standards-Based Assessments in the Classroom, School, and District
by Douglas B. Reeves
from Advanced Learning Press
Rationale and step-by-step instructions for creating classroom assessments that accurately measure what students know and are able to do.
How to Grade for Learning: Linking Grades to Standards
by Ken O'Connor
from Corwin Press
Formerly a SkyLight publication
"In How to Grade for Learning, Ken O'Connor combines the thoroughness of a scholar with the pragmatism of a veteran educator as he explains the relationship between content standards, performance standards, assignments, assessments, and grades."
-Jay McTighe, Author and Consultant
Teachers will never look at grading the same way again.
In this revised edition of the bestselling How to Grade for Learning, Ken O'Connor shows how to link grades and standards. He updates his eight models, which assist teachers in designing and conducting grading practices that help students feel more in control of their academic success.
This comprehensive resource:
- Defines the purpose of each guideline
- Illustrates the examples
- Discusses and analyzes key elements
- Supplies overviews of various grading programs and calculation strategies
Common Formative Assessments: How to Connect Standards-Based Instruction and Assessment
by Larry B. Ainsworth
from Corwin Press
"A powerful resource. The authors clarify the terminology of assessment with painstaking precision and offer specific, practical steps to help educators develop their assessment literacy."
—Richard DuFour, Educational Author and Consultant
"Highly recommended—a clear and helpful guide to navigating the terrain of instruction, assessment, and standards."
—Mike Schmoker, Author, Speaker, and Consultant
"A powerful way of coping with accountability. This important book lays out a game plan for coming up with an educationally defensible response to today's score-boosting pressures."
—W. James Popham, Professor Emeritus
UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Common formative assessments—the centerpiece of an integrated, standards-based system!
Now you have powerful means to closely align curriculum, instruction, and assessment to the standards essential for student success. You will learn how teams of teachers in the same content area or grade level can collaboratively develop, test, and refine common formative assessments in order to gain reliable and timely feedback on student progress. The results provide teachers with critical insight into how well students are understanding the standards, what changes are needed in instructional strategies, and how to best meet the needs of every student!
This timely resource presents the "big picture" of an integrated, standards-based instruction and assessment system and offers instructional leaders and teacher teams guidelines for:
- Developing high-quality common formative assessments
- Aligning school-based common formative assessments with district benchmarks and large-scale summative assessments
- Predicting likely student performance on subsequent assessments in time to make instructional modifications
- Implementing and sustaining common formative assessments within the school’s or district’s assessment culture
This book is a must-read for all educators and leaders committed to improving standards-based assessment practices in their district, school, or classroom.
(20050920)National Science Education Standards
by National Committee on Science Education Standards and Assessment
from National Academies Press
Americans agree that our students urgently need better science education. But what should they be expected to know and be able to do? Can the same expectations be applied across our diverse society?
These and other fundamental issues are addressed in National Science Education Standards--a landmark development effort that reflects the contributions of thousands of teachers, scientists, science educators, and other experts across the country.
The National Science Education Standards offer a coherent vision of what it means to be scientifically literate, describing what all students regardless of background or circumstance should understand and be able to do at different grade levels in various science categories.
The standards address:
- The exemplary practice of science teaching that provides students with experiences that enable them to achieve scientific literacy.
- Criteria for assessing and analyzing students' attainments in science and the learning opportunities that school science programs afford.
- The nature and design of the school and district science program.
- The support and resources needed for students to learn science.
This document will be invaluable to education policymakers, school system administrators, teacher educators, individual teachers, and concerned parents.
Unwrapping the Standards: A Simple Process to Make Standards Manageable
by Larry Ainsworth
from Advanced Learning Press
A step-by-step process to understand what each standard is requiring a student to know and be able to do.
Power Standards: Identifying the Standards that Matter the Most
by Larry Ainsworth
from Advanced Learning Press
Prioritize the state standards on the basis of need.
Writing Meaningful Teacher Evaluations - Right Now! Second Edition The Principal's Quick-Start Reference Guide
by Cornelius L. Barker
from Corwin Press
New Edition of Bestseller!
This second edition puts even more tools for writing teacher evaluations at your fingertips!
Now you can write fact-filled, performance-based, high-quality teacher evaluations, quickly and efficiently, even when you are crunched for time.
The updated edition includes even more sample evaluations, forms, performance proficiency statements, and a timesaving CD-ROM. In Part One, performance statements are grouped under five standard areas of teaching competencies:
- Proficiency with Curriculum
- Evaluation of Student Growth
- Preparation and Readiness
- Instructional Performance
- Interaction/Climate
Suggested Pats on the Back following each section help you reinforce your teachers’ good work. Vocabulary Aids also help you select the exact words to customize your review.
Part Two offers easy-to-reproduce forms and sample evaluations, with a new section of statements specifically for commenting on the quality of writing/planning in teachers’ plan books, roll books, and homework assignments formulated for the students.
Other useful sections include:
- Common Areas of Concern, with Suggested Remedies
- Evaluation Organizer to record observed classroom practices in the quickest, most efficient way
- Sample Written Evaluations let you capture the most subtle aspects of observed teaching performance
- Cross-Reference of Key Terms gives a quick way to identify and find statements using the alphabetized lists of words and phrases
- Ready-to-copy forms include Record of Evaluations, Checklist of Basic Documentation and/or Conditions, a Pre-Post Conference Form, and an Informal Observation FormÂ
CD-ROM is PC and Mac compatible and not sold separately.
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