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by Donna E. Walker Tileston
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
Gain a solid foundation for understanding the implications of standards-based instruction in the classroom and sharpen your skill in enhancing student understanding.
Using RTI for School Improvement
Raising Every Student’s Achievement Scores
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
A step-by-step approach for implementing RTI to improve schoolwide achievement!
This resource gives school and district leaders a comprehensive vision and framework for implementing RTI schoolwide and includes interventions and assessments for teachers. The authors take readers through a three-tiered...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
This book guides educators through an assessment process that is fully integrated with the daily curriculum and designed to significantly improve student performance.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
The author's eight-point cultural compass guides you in crafting a respectful and inclusive curriculum. Each chapter includes frequently asked questions, specific strategies and activities.
Informing the Practice of Teaching Using Formative and Interim Assessment
A Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book focuses on interim and formative assessments as distinguished from the more usual interest in summative assessment. I was particularly interested in seeing what the experts have to say about a full system of assessment. This book has particular interest in what information a teacher, a school...
TechnologyBased Assessments for 21st Century Skills
Theoretical and Practical Implications from Modern Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Creative problem solving, collaboration, and technology fluency are core skills requisite of any nation’s workforce that strives to be competitive in the 21st Century. Teaching these types of skills is an economic imperative, and assessment is a fundamental component of any pedagogical program....
Setting Performance Standards
Foundations, Methods, and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Setting standards of performance is a ubiquitous task in education licensure, certification, and credentialling. It is found in elementary schooling, the professions, commercial applications, and governmental and private organizations. It is one of the most complex, controversial, and vexing issues...
Assessing Media Education
A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators: Component 2: Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This component of Assessing Media Education is intended for those who would like to know how other schools have grappled with implementing assessment initiatives, and who have used assessment to improve their programs.
What's Wrong with Our Schools
and How We Can Fix Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
What's Wrong with Our Schools and How We Can Fix Them examines the status of public education in North America and exposes many of the absurd instructional practices found in all-too-many schools. Written by three experienced educators, this book provides readers with a direct window into public education....
by ConsultTheSage.Com
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Much like astrology and numerology, the Enneagram is a system of determining personality types. It is a circle which consists of nine different and distinct personality styles that can help people learn more about themselves, how they interact with others, and what may be the best courses of action...
Teacher and Student Evaluation
Moving Beyond the Failure of School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Following the recent major school reform of Race to the Top, schools, teachers, and students are increasingly evaluated through high-stakes achievement test scores. In six concise chapters, Teacher and Student Evaluation explores the historical rise and modern landscape of accountability in American...
Academically Adrift
Limited Learning on College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor’s degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they’re born. Almost everyone strives to...
Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills
Research and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book provides a detailed description of research and application outcomes from the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills project, which explored a framework for understanding the nature of these skills. The major element of this new volume is the presentation of research information...
Teacher Performance Assessment and Accountability Reforms
The Impacts of edTPA on Teaching and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Winner of the 2017 AESA Critic's Choice Book Award
This book provides multiple perspectives on the dual struggle that teacher educators currently face as they make sense of edTPA while preparing their pre-service teachers for this high stakes teacher exam. The adoption of nationalized teacher...