Put on Your Global Glasses: Eye on Japan

Carolyn Coil

Pieces of Learning

150 practical strategies to encourage students to achieve. Topics include Lesson Planning; Independent Learning Activities; Dealing with the Problems of Society and Pop Culture; Student Stress; the Role of the Family and School; the Brain and Learning; and Work, Challenges, Learning from Failure, and Responsibility. Complements Motivating Underachievers. CD includes PDF froms and customizable WORD forms. WORD forms include: Teacher Reflection Pages: ENCOURAGE-What Does It Mean? The Brain and Learning Testing and Achievement Forms: Record of Work for Product or Performance Student Self-Assessment Form "Challenge the Weatherman" My Plan for Helping a Child Deal with Stress Planning a Learning Center Plan for Learning Center Activities Print Sources Record Sheet Internet Sources Record Sheet Evaluate and Classify Your Sources Evaluate and Classify Ideas and Information Encounter Lesson Planning Form Tiered Assignment Lesson/Unit Planning Form PDF Forms Include: My Individual Pledge Record of Work for Product or Performance Working Together in a Cooperative Group Quotes About Failure An Overcomer Student Self-Assessment Form Family Fun Time Challenge the Weatherman Sample Restaurant Ratings Report Card Strategies for Parents to Encourage Achievement Developing Self-Esteem, Motivating, and Responsibility Strategies for Parents to Encourage Achievement Developing Good Study Skills Measuring Your Stress Level A Test About Tests Typical Time Wasters for Students What Can You Learn from the World of Sports? Teacher Reflection Page Societal Problems Facts and Guidelines about Television Viewing Question Box Learning Center Blockbuster Movie Review Learning Center The Clean Out Your File Cabinet Learning Center Mind Map of Activities Mind Map of Products Independent Study Action Guide Print Sources Record Sheet Internet Sources Record Sheet Reliability of Sources General Guidelines Evaluate and Classify Your Sources Evaluate and Classify Your Ideas and Information Sample Encounter Lesson Encounter Lesson Planning Form Sample Tiered Lesson/Unit Plan Orbit Around the Sun Simulation Tiered Assignment Lesson/Unit Planning Form

Encouraging Achievement

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Look at testing from a different perspective - for ALL students, for students who operate in different learning styles, for those who already test out of standardized tests, for those who need or surpass classroom and district benchmarks. CD includes all rubrics and customizable rubric. The work is done for you! Includes 134 ready-to-use rubrics in all subject areas plus directions for how-to-write your own quality rubrics. Narrative topics include assessment terms, standardized testing, alternative assessment, standards, and benchmarks.

Solving the Assessment Puzzle Piece by Piece

Dodie Merritt

Texas Legacy Award Finalist 2005 This workbook for 4th 12th grade students asks them to read a little, think a little, and write a little about topics that will help them become successful achievers. These skills will raise student achievement as well as motivate students because of the success they will experiences. Topics include: Developing Self-Confidence and how the student, the student s family, teachers, and peers, influence success and failure. Students learn the characteristics of achievers and identify their own personal and academic behaviors. Goal Setting, problem solving, and decision making and how to plan so that goals can be achieved. Motivation, both internal and external, how learning styles affect a student s motivation to learn and succeed, and how failure affects motivation. Time management and organizational skills and tips. Study skills and tips. How to take tests and participate in other kinds of assessment including rubrics and portfolios. How to work within the system to become an achiever, attain success, and raise achievement levels.

Becoming an Achiever

Coil, Carolyn

The framework of your district-level RTI plan is approved; your leadership team is in place; you ve determined the approach. Interventions will originate from research/evidence-based differentiation strategies you ve become skilled at by attending professional development workshops. Screening Intervention Monitoring Achievement - Student Success. Differentiation, RTI, and Achievement: How They Work Together offers 12 specific academic and behavioral student vignettes, detailed examples of assessments of research-based interventions, blank assessment forms for your use, and supportive templates. All forms and checklists are in PDF or customizable WORD format on the included CD.

Differentiation, RTI, and Achievement: How They Work Together

This updated revised edition of our Best-Selling assessment book includes 100 rubrics, shows how to use rubrics to assess standards, and describes how to include Product Criteria Cards in complex rubrics.
 The expanded glossary includes 50 of the most important assessment terms, each explained in an understandable and user-friendly fashion. 
 The authors explore the uses of data in driving instruction, the new common core standards, the impact of high-stakes testing, and the uses and benefits of alternative assessments. 
 NEW All book rubrics, Teacher Reflection Pages, and print reproducible forms on the CD are in WORD format customizable to best meet the needs of your school and students.

Solving the Assessment Puzzle Piece by Piece - Revised Edition

A significant advantage in using Common Core State Standards is that they are general, with broader curriculum application. They can potentially lead to higher-level thinking and mastery of 21st century skills rather than focus on lower-level test-prep answers. Coil s practical examples show educators how to use differentiated curriculum, differentiated instruction, and differentiated assessment with the Common Core State Standards. Differentiation is essential when educators work with diverse groups of students while using the same set of Common Core State Standards for each student. These activities and corresponding assessments are specifically designed examples of how the CCSS can be implemented in your classroom with diverse students. Differentiated curriculum calls for differentiated assessment. Not only are the topic activities differentiated and provide for student choice, but the assessments are differentiated as well. Using differentiated activities and assessments leads to greater success and achievement on high-stakes standardized tests. Coil includes over 50 topics in language arts, math, social studies, science, and interdisciplinary topics. Lesson formats include Curriculum Compacting, Individual Lesson Plans (ILPTM), QuestivitiesTM, Tic-Tac-Toes, and Tiered Lessons &amp; Units. The accompanying digital content includes all 50+ lesson formats (activities AND assessments) in ready-to-use customizable WORD files. Instructions for downloading the digital content are included inside the back cover.

Differentiated Activities & Assessments Using the Common Core Standards

The Common Core State Standards, with their emphasis on breadth, depth, and higher-level thinking skills, are exemplary vehicles to enhance creative practice and production in the classroom. Because the standards are both general and conceptual in nature, with broader curriculum application and a problem-solving focus, they have the potential to both lay the groundwork and provide the framework for higher-level thinking, including creative and critical thinking. Common Core State Standards hold the promise of providing opportunities for developing creativity through the integration of new ideas, technology, the arts, and higher-level questioning. Creativity and innovation are considered by P21 Partnership for 21st Century Skills to be some of the most important areas on which to focus work within the Common Core State Standards. Indeed, in the 21st century, creativity and innovation skills are central components of college and career readiness. Creativity x 4 includes four practical, standards-based lesson planning formats to use to develop creativity and higher-level thinking: Six Thinking Hats® Encounter Lessons QuestivitiesTM SCAMPER Six Thinking Hats® is a thinking process that identifies six different ways of thinking with each way indicated by a different colored hat. Each way of thinking adds information and helps students look at problems or challenges more creatively and with a variety of points of view. Encounter Lessons include open-ended questions that help students practice good listening skills, stimulate creativity and higher-level thinking, and provide motivation for all students. The QuestivitiesTM format consists of a Project Activity and a series of Thinking Questions that stimulate creative and critical thinking and give practice in research skills. SCAMPER is an acronym for words describing seven different thinking techniques to spark creativity and generate ideas for problem solving. It provides teachers with the means for generating questions and gives students a vehicle for demonstrating higher levels of thinking. Instructions for downloading the digital content are included inside the back cover.

Creativity X4: Using the Common Core Standards

? Would like to differentiate your curriculum and your day-to-day instruction, but don t understand how to implement differentiation? ? Do you need practical strategies that are user-friendly and do not take an inordinate amount of time to plan and put into practice? ? Do you want a way to assess the variety of student projects and performances that are often the result of differentiated instruction? ? Must you incorporate standards, including the Common Core, into each unit or lesson you teach? This book is just what you need! If you are a teacher, an administrator, a professional development coordinator, or are in any other position of educational leadership it will: Give specific examples of differentiated activities to teachers at all grade levels, Clarify how to set up and plan for student choices, Explain how to write and implement tiered lessons and units, and Translate theory into sound educational practice. Discover 55 how-to differentiated units of work with student activities and their corresponding assessments: 24 Tic-Tac-Toe student choice activities and assessments 10 Individual Lesson Plans (ILPTMs) - Differentiated units of work with both required activities and student choice activities and assessments 6 Primary Individual Lesson Plans A simpler version of the ILPTM designed for students in grades K-2 15 Tiered Lessons/Units with assessments In addition, you ll find: 30 Product Criteria Cards to facilitate assessment of student products and performances An Index of Common Core Standards used in each of the 55 differentiated units An Index of Products/Performances An Index by Subject Area Suggested differentiated products and performances Ways to set up Learning Contracts for individual students Print-On-Demand customizable files with all 55 differentiated units of work for you to download and use or to change to better meet your individual needs Practical Strategies! - Teacher Friendly Directions! - Time-Saving Techniques!

Activities and Assessments for the Differentiated Classroom Revised Expanded Edition

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