Thousands of teachers and leaders have been trained by the author in establishing grading policies that are more reflective of true student achievement to standards. In this third edition of his bestselling book, the author shows how to link grades and standards and support student understanding and achievement of success. He updates his eight principles of good grading, shown with examples, which assist teachers in designing and adopting grading practices that help students feel more in control of their academic success, and provide parents a true picture.
Strength-Based Practices That Support All Learners
Empower students through restorative assessments that offer multiple ways to demonstrate learning-and give educators more opportunities to assess progress and individualize teaching. In this guide, you'll find cutting-edge research on using assessments that promote equity and reduce conflict, plus real-world examples, action points and reflection questions, and practical strategies.
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A QuickStudy Laminated Law Reference & BAR Exam Study Guide
Essential core of real property law in a 6 page laminated guide authored and designed for quick reference. Use as a review for exams, to find a fact fast, for refreshing memory, or to constantly reinforce your knowledge base. With the mass of knowledge and facts needed for a law degree and then for practicing law, a trusted reference source is ......
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Because explicit language instruction serves ALL students Here, at last, is every K-8 teacher's playbook on the critical role academic language plays in content learning and student achievement. What exactly is so different? Margo Gottlieb and Mariana Castro distill the complexities of language learning into four key uses through which students can probe the interplay between language and content, and demonstrate their knowledge and understanding. It's as straight-forward as that. Best of all, Language Power is jam-packed with hands-on, replicable resources to help you seamlessly integrate academic language into your daily routines: targeted examples, activities, and templates. Along the way, you'll learn how to Identify, plan, assess, and implement academic language instruction using the Discuss, Argue, Recount, and Explain conceptual tool Utilize language within and across domains and content areas Apply the inquiry cycle to the theme of academic language use Expand stakeholders to include students other families No matter who your students are, no matter which discipline you teach, the research reads the same: school achievement depends upon effective communication. Read Language Power, implement its resources, and soon see for yourself what a powerful tool language is in realizing this goal. "This thought-provoking and very practical book will be welcomed by all educators who are striving to provide a more equitable curriculum for students. As Gottlieb and Castro suggest, this endeavor requires classroom teachers to think critically about the language they use with students, and develop the knowledge and skills to provide students with explicit and well-planned support for the development of academic language. Language Power will assist educators to make these endeavors a reality." Pauline Gibbons, Author of Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning, Second Edition
Meaningful, Sustainable, and Scalable Formative Assessment With Technology
Formative assessment is a must for educators, but it can be difficult to juggle with all the demands on a busy teacher's to-do list. In this book teachers will find practical ideas for assessing project-based and inquiry-based approaches, how to evaluate data and communicate results with families. This book will help make formative assessment meaningful, sustainable and scalable.
Pedagogical documentation is a vital method of assessing and observing young children, and is a practice that enables practitioners, families and children to learn alongside each other. This book draws on the projects and experiences of senior researchers from nations including Australia, Canada, Sweden, Singapore, the UK and the USA to highlight multiple approaches to pedagogical documentation. Topics explored include: using video in pedagogical documentation making the most of outdoor learning environments developing pedagogical documentation within curriculum frameworks the relationship with Early Years transitions the potential of pedagogical documentation for leadership enactment. The book offers guidance, support and inspiration to practitioners and researchers on how to implement meaningful and sustainable child-focused observation in early years contexts.
The authors take the guesswork out of determining students' needs with a moment-to-moment guide focused on the decisions that make the biggest impact on readers' skill development. With this book's guidance, teachers can put the authors' next-step resources into action, learning to trust their instincts and students to provide them with information about the next steps that make the most sense for them. Teaching students to engage with and understand fiction becomes personal, purposeful, and a homegrown process that can be replicated from year to year and student to student.
