Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading that will enhance both your own teaching and your students' learning. This book details the specific benefits of formative assessment. The author explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, how to track student progress, and how to assign meaningful grades, even if a school or district continues to use a traditional grading system. Detailed examples bring each concept to life, and chapter exercises reinforce the content.
 Benefits -Learn how to design three types of formative classroom assessments that should be used in a comprehensive system. -Understand the difference between standards-based and standards-referenced systems. -Find out why it is usually inappropriate to use the 100-point scale in conjunction with formative assessment. -Gain a systematic approach to the design and use of rubrics. -Learn four basic approaches to tracking student progress using reproducible grade sheets. -Use technology to track progress and generate reports. -Create grades for teachers using formative approaches. -Utilize an appendix that clearly explains the concept of effect size. -Discover exercises to help readers assess and reinforce their understanding of the new strategies. Contents 1. Research and Theory 2. The Anatomy of Formative Assessment 3. The Need for a New Scale 4. Designing Assessments 5. Tracking Student Progress 6. Grading and Reporting Appendix A: Answers to Exercises Appendix B: What Is an Effect Size?

Formative Assessment and Standards-Based Grading: The Classroom Strategies Series (Designing an Effective System of Assessment and Grading to Enhance ... Learning) (Classroom Strategies That Work)

Robert J. Marzano

Reference

Marzano Research

Give new teachers the time and professional guidance they need to become expert teachers. Investigate key research, and examine the four types of support-physical, emotional, instructional, and institutional-that are crucial during a teacher's first year in the classroom. Discover essential strategies for K-12 mentors, coaches, and school leaders to develop an effective mentoring program schoolwide.
Benefits
 -Review research related to high teacher turnover rates. -Consider the important components and new-teacher supports that school leaders should have at the forefront of mentoring programs. -Learn how to ascertain which teachers have the skills and experience to be effective mentors and how these mentors can form prosperous relationships with their mentees. -Answer chapter-ending comprehension questions to retain each chapter's main topics. -Read the author's personal essays from her first year of teaching, each accompanied by questions that mentors and mentees can use to spark discussion.

Supporting Beginning Teachers (Classroom Strategies)

Education & Teaching

Tina H. Boogren

Schools & Teaching

Teach students essential skills with engaging activities. In each chapter, you ll explore a key reasoning skill from the Common Core State Standards or Next Generation Science Standards and discover fun, research-based games and activities to help teach them to students. You ll also find strategies for effectively incorporating these tools into your classroom to help prepare students for academic and lifetime success.
Benefits
-Help students develop the ability to critically analyze evidence and draw valid conclusions.
-Refine students' reasoning skills-using a combination of analytical and intuitive reasoning-to help them prosper in 21st century colleges and workplaces.
-Gain classroom games and activities to support reasoning lessons.
-Provide students with the tools to reinforce their reasoning and relay complex information.

Teaching Reasoning: Activities and Games for the Classroom

Ming Lee Newcomb

Julia A. Simms

Laurel Hecker

Cultivate a positive mindset, and choose productive actions by examining your emotions and interpretations in the classroom. By investigating three management phases--awareness, analysis, and choice--teachers can become mindful of factors that influence their interactions with students and learn a process for ensuring positive outcomes. You'll gain concrete strategies and activities that enhance classroom practice and impact student learning.
Benefits -Develop a deep understanding of the human mind. -Self-assess your mental state in regard to career, family, and friends. -Understand how to use the three-phase management process every day to ensure success. -Identify and stay true to your moral purpose and ideals to cultivate personal and professional satisfaction. -Gain strategies and activities to enhance the lives of students, and learn to honor each student's self-system.

Managing the Inner World of Teaching: Emotions, Interpretations, and Actions (Classroom Strategies)

Jana S. Marzano

Transform an in-depth understanding of the new science standards into successful classroom practice. You'll learn how to align instruction and assessment with the science standards and create proficiency scales that can be used to plan all types of lessons. Discover hundreds of ready-to-use proficiency scales derived from the Next Generation Science Standards that are applicable to specific areas of science instruction.
Benefits -Explore how standards-based science education has evolved. -Understand how the NGSS are organized and how they can be used in classroom instruction. -Integrate 21st century thinking and reasoning into instruction of the NGSS. -Develop high-quality common assessments based on the new science standards. -Design student-specific learning goals and proficiency standards using the NGSS. -Access hundreds of ready-to-use science proficiency scales.

Proficiency Scales for the New Science Standards: A Framework for Science Instruction and Assessment

Science & Math

David C. Yanoski

with Diane E. Paynter

Science for Kids

Bringing motivation and inspiration to the classroom is not easy. This book builds on the themes of Awaken the Learner: Finding the Source of Effective Education, which asserts K-12 schools' extreme focus on knowledge and skill acquisition is detrimental to students' growth. With this practical resource, you'll discover a results-driven framework-based on a six-level hierarchy of student needs and goals-that you can use to provide engaging instruction to students. The authors share comprehensive understandings of the nature of motivation and inspiration and detail specific strategies to connect with your students: how creating a positive classroom community will support students' sense of belonging; how teachers can ensure students feel safe in the classroom; and what teachers should do so students experience self-actualization in class.
 Benefits -Gain specific chapter-ending guidance on how to use the book's strategies to connect with students at each level of the student needs hierarchy. -Consider scenarios that portray how the book's suggestions might play out in the classroom. -Review mindsets, dispositions, and behaviors that result in negative, unhelpful thinking and in positive, productive thinking. -Study step-by-step processes that ensure students' needs get met in individual classrooms. -Use the Awaken the Learner Snapshot Student Survey to assess students' levels of engagement, attention, motivation, and inspiration in school. Contents 1. Research and Theory 2. Connection to Something Greater Than Self 3. Self-Actualization 4. Esteem Within a Community 5. Belonging 6. Safety 7. Physiology Epilogue Appendix Obtaining Feedback References and Resources

Motivating and Inspiring Students: Strategies to Awaken the Learner (Providing a Positive Learning Experience for Students)

Darrell Scott

Impact science education with direct vocabulary instruction. With this three-part resource, you ll discover a six-step process for successfully incorporating vocabulary from the new science standards into student learning. Identify the crucial aspects of vocabulary education, and learn targeted strategies to actively engage students. Gain access to lists of essential scientific terms that will help you establish an effective, organized vocabulary program.
Benefits
-Recognize the importance of vocabulary instruction on student reading ability and academic achievement.
-Gain access to self-evaluation scales that students can use to score their degree of understanding.
-Master grade-level, domain-specific vocabulary from the new science standards to enhance student learning from grade to grade.
-Discover the components and support needed to implement a systemwide vocabulary program.
-Create a system of assessment that tracks student progress with vocabulary from the new science standards.

Vocabulary for the New Science Standards (Essentials for Principals)

Katie Rogers

Words, Language & Grammar

Ensure students develop the argumentation and critical-thinking skills they need for academic and lifetime success. Discover 10 fun, engaging activities and games for teaching argumentation that align with the CCSS. Incorporate these tools into your instruction to help students develop their ability to present and support claims, distinguish fact and opinion, identify errors in reasoning, and debate constructively.
Benefits
 - Obtain games and activities to support instruction and teach argumentation skills.
 - Help students develop the critical-thinking skills necessary to lead informed lives.
 - Facilitate classroom discussions about various topics-including difficult ones-to prepare students for democratic life.
 - Provide students with the tools to build effective arguments and relay complex information.
 - Access reproducibles including question cards, memory cards, evidence organizers, answer keys, and more.

Teaching Argumentation: Activities and Games for the Classroom (What Principals Need to Know)

Foreword by Robert Marzano

Discover a practical, comprehensive model of effective professional learning communities. In this user-friendly guide, educators explore research-based steps and strategies designed to increase the effectiveness of collaborative teams and enhance PLCs. Examine how the PLC process can transform critical components of education by expanding the responsibilities of collaborative teams, enabling them to transform the scope and content of the curriculum, the nature and function of classroom assessments, the manner in which instruction is planned and executed, the system in which teachers develop, and the way schools are led. 
Benefits - Gain a model of effective instruction and strategies for direct instruction. -Explore resources for collaborative teams to use as they have honest and challenging discussions, set and monitor norms, and focus on the right work. -Chart progress and transformation of your own schools and classrooms to inform and adjust curriculum, instruction, and assessment with self-evaluation surveys. -Study vignettes that depict how real schools have successfully implemented the strategies of a professional learning community outlined in each chapter. -Use reproducible agendas, scales, and checklists to improve schoolwide practices. -Answer comprehension questions to review each chapter's main points and increase your ability to support teacher development and student achievement.

Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools: The Next Step in PLCs (Improving Student Learning in PLCs; Effective Leaders and Team Collaboration That Bolster PLCs)

Jan K. Hoegh

Tammy Heflebower

Phil Warrick

Gavin Grift

Janelle Wills

Mindfulness is an effective, low-cost way for educators to help students improve their social and emotional wellness as they learn and grow. The authors share practical tools that align to the five key categories of mindfulness benefits -stress reduction, attention, emotional control, positive self-concept, and positive interactions- and offer a step-by-step process for establishing a formal school or classroom mindfulness program. 
 Benefits: - Recognize what mindfulness is and is not, in order to use mindfulness practices in the classroom, so that students know how to cope with their emotions. - Consider research that presents the benefits of mindfulness practices, to help students focus their brains for extended periods of time and increase their emotional intelligence. - Get student-friendly definitions of mindfulness terms, to make students more mindful of their emotions and ultimately foster better classroom cultures and higher student achievement. - Answer chapter-ending comprehension questions and compare your answers to those provided in an appendix, to examine your understanding of mindfulness. Contents Chapter 1: Research and Theory Chapter 2: Stress Reduction Chapter 3: Attention Chapter 4: Emotional Control Chapter 5: Positive Self-Concept Chapter 6: Positive Interactions Chapter 7: Steps for Implementing Mindfulness in Your Classroom or School Epilogue Appendix A: Answers to Comprehension Questions Appendix B: Noteworthy Books, Programs, and Resources References and Resources

Cultivating Mindfulness in the Classroom -effective, low-cost way for educators to help students manage stress (Classroom Strategies)

Humor & Entertainment

Mike Ruyle

Jeanie M. Iberlin

Humor

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