The authors provide a brief introduction to the Dimensions of Learning instructional model and then explain how it relates to lifelong learning standards and the content standards developed for mathematics, science, and other subjects. They include numerous examples of performance tasks that help students meet the standards by requiring them to actively construct knowledge for themselves.  Teachers will especially appreciate the book's many rubrics, which are four-point scales that teachers can use not only to assess student performance on various tasks related to the five dimensions of learning, but also to provide descriptive feedback that can help students improve their performance. The book is printed in an 8" x 10" format so readers can easily photocopy the rubrics and blank assessment forms in Part Two of the book.

Assessing student outcomes: Performance assessment using the dimensions of learning model

Education & Teaching

Marzano, Robert J.

Schools & Teaching

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Computers in curriculum and instruction

Computers in curriculum and instruction

M. Tim (editor)

Gawronski Jane D. (editor) Grady

In this publication, Lieberman and Miller explore the affective world of the teacher. They tie the social realities of day-to-day living in a school building to the process of instructional improvement. They aim to help those who have been out of the classroom awhile to remember the challenges and frustrations teachers face. Through verbatim quotations and vivid descriptions, they also permit them to savour the joys of teacher experiences when learning takes place.

Teachers, their world, and their work: Implications for school improvement

Lieberman, Ann

One of the most common and serious mistakes made by both the ministry years and leaders of a change process is to presume that once an innovation has been introduced an initial training has been completed the intended users will put the innovation into practice. A second serious mistake is to assume that all users of the implementation will react in similar ways. This book provides new insights and understandings about school change. It's powerful message brings a new understanding about the roles and personal needs of the people involved in a change process. It hits at the heart of the problem by providing strategies for the total management of a innovation destined for success. The first strategy presented provides the means to both introduce the change or innovation and monitor the anticipated variety and diversity of implementation... The second strategy focuses on the target of the change process, the teacher... The concept of the levels of use of the innovation provides the third strategy, which identifies the degree to which teachers are using the new practices... One of the major contentions of this book is that guesswork and intuition need not be the tool used by individuals responsible for the process of change. The specific role played by those individuals in the orchestration of their efforts is presented with six areas of action that support a change process. Taking Charge of Change provides diagnostic techniques for assessing individuals involved in a change in order to understand both them and their needs. Those techniques then provide the agents of the change process with information about how to use resources and provide support services. This book carries a powerful message for all success oriented agents of change. ---excerpts from book's Forward

Taking Charge of Change (ASCD)

Gene E. Hall

Shirley M. Hord

William L. Rutherford

Leslie Huling-Austin

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Teacher Evaluation: Six Prescriptions for Success

Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain [Paperback]Renate Nummela Caine (Author), Geoffrey Caine (Author)

Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain

Renate Nummela Caine

Geoffrey Caine

What happens when learning theory meets the reality of the classroom? In this book, you'll find out what happened when Renate and Geoffrey Caine took their theory of learning, which is based on a wholistic interpretation of brain research, and strived to bring it to life in two schools. The Caines' work represents a new way of looking at learning and change. Forming the foundation are brain/mind learning principles that describe how the brain, mind, and body work together. The book details the Caines' work in the schools, reports the results, and introduces surprising conclusions about how educators will have to think and function to succeed in the 21st century. The Caines believe that society as a whole is poised on the edge of chaos--and possibility. Education is being pulled into that turbulence, and educators have an opportunity to participate in influencing its direction. By incorporating traditional and brain-based approaches to instruction, the authors offer the means--education on the edge of possibility.

Education on the Edge of Possibility

Caine, Renate Nummela

Caine, Geoffrey

As James Beane states, the curriculum in many schools today is "disconnected, fragmented, and incoherent"--an observation that led the writers to document their search for ways to make the curriculum meaningful in the lives of students and to prepare them for the 21st century. 
The 18 contributors--professors, administrators, and classroom teachers--discuss their experiences in answering the question of what an educated person should be; looking for large themes to integrate the curriculum, both within and among subjects; including diverse cultures; working toward broad goals and standards; using authentic assessments; and involving the concerns of students. Commentaries include cautions on today's fiscal realities. 
Authors include Andrew Ahlgren, Michael Apple, Ernest Boyer, Beverly Cross, Maxine Greene, Willard Kniep, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Joan Palmer, William Schubert, Stephen Tchudi, and Grant Wiggins.

Toward a Coherent Curriculum (1995 ASCD Yearbook)

Curriculum renewal: A case study : a chapter of the Curriculum handbook

Seif, Elliott

Mathematics: A chapter of the Curriculum handbook

Dossey, John A.

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Assessing student outcomes: Performance assessment using the dimensions of learning model

Computers in curriculum and instruction

Teachers, their world, and their work: Implications for school improvement

Taking Charge of Change (ASCD)

Teacher Evaluation: Six Prescriptions for Success

Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain

Education on the Edge of Possibility

Toward a Coherent Curriculum (1995 ASCD Yearbook)

Curriculum renewal: A case study : a chapter of the Curriculum handbook

Mathematics: A chapter of the Curriculum handbook