Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading. The author details the specific benefits of formative assessment and explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, how to track student progress, and how to assign meaningful grades. Detailed examples bring each concept to life, and chapter exercises reinforce the content.
Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading.
Learn from the world s best education researchers, theorists, and staff developers as they present recommendations on effective instruction. The book provides a comprehensive view of instruction from a theoretical, systemic, and classroom perspective. The authors diverse expertise delivers a wide range of ideas and strategies."
On Excellence in Teaching brings the ideas and recommendations of many internationally renowned leaders in education into one resource for educators working to help students achieve at ever-higher levels.
The premise of Dimensions of Learning an instructional framework founded on the best of what researchers and theorists know about learning is that five types, or dimensions, of thinking are essential to successful learning. These are (1) positive attitudes and perceptions about learning, (2) thinking involved in acquiring and integrating knowledge, (3) thinking involved in extending and refining knowledge, (4) thinking involved in using knowledge meaningfully, and (5) productive habits of mind. Dimensions of Learning is a valuable tool for reorganizing curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The authors discuss each of the five dimensions in detail and describe hundreds of teaching strategies that support them for example, how to help students construct meaning for declarative knowledge, internalize procedural knowledge, and see the relevance of what they are expected to learn. The authors provide many examples at the elementary and secondary classroom levels. Teachers of grades K-12 can use this information to improve teaching and learning in any content area.
These are (1) positive attitudes and perceptions about learning, (2) thinking involved in acquiring and integrating knowledge, (3) thinking involved in extending and refining knowledge, (4) thinking involved in using knowledge meaningfully, ...
This companion volume to Classroom Management That Works helps teachers at all grade levels master the array of skills needed for a productive learning environment. Through worksheets, case studies, and other materials, readers learn how to use the seven essentials of effective classroom management that Robert J. Marzano identified by analyzing more than 100 research studies. Discussion questions and self-assessments allow readers to examine their own practices and understanding, while also providing a ready-made forum for study teams working together to develop their skills.
This companion volume to Classroom Management That Works helps teachers at all grade levels master the array of skills needed for a productive learning environment.
Provides strategies for successful classroom management.
Provides strategies for successful classroom management.
A handbook to accompany Robert J. Marzano's "Classroom Management That Works" offers ways to implement the research-based classroom management practices to support higher student achievement.
A handbook to accompany Robert J. Marzano's "Classroom Management That Works" offers ways to implement the research-based classroom management practices to support higher student achievement.
