Download or read book Creating Independent Student Learners N 3 written by Pauline Clarke and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Guide to Assessment for Learning: Grades N-3 is one book in the Creating Independent Student Learners set. The set includes guides for N-9 teachers and school leaders. The books can be used individually or as a set.This resource offers practical ways to help students become independent learners through 'assessment for learning.' The book is organized around an eight-step framework for good assessment. The authors include a detailed explanation of each step, recommendations for getting started, and teachers' anecdotes of their experiences using the steps. The book includes rubrics, working charts, thoughtful essays, and reproducibles.Practical learning approaches for each grade level are provided. These include:expanding one-word responses from students helping students find the spelling of words without asking the teacher helping students to look more positively at their artwork

Download or read book Creating Independent Student Learners written by Pauline Clarke and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical Guide to Assessment for Learning: Grades N-3 is one book in the Creating Independent Student Learners set. The set includes guides for N-9 teachers and school leaders. The books can be used individually or as a set. This resource offers practical ways to help students become independent learners through 'assessment for learning.' The book is organized around an eight-step framework for good assessment. The authors include a detailed explanation of each step, recommendations for getting started, and teachers' anecdotes of their experiences using the steps. The book includes rubrics, working charts, thoughtful essays, and reproducibles.Practical learning approaches for each grade level are provided. These include:- Expanding one-word responses from students;- Helping students find the spelling of words without asking the teacher; and- Helping students to look more positively at their artwork.

Download or read book Creating Independent Student Learners School Leaders written by Pauline Clarke and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical Guide to Assessment for Learning: School Leaders is one book in the Creating Independent Student Learners set. The set includes guides for N–9 teachers and school leaders. A Practical Guide to Assessment for Learning: School Leaders, is an easy-to-read guide for those wishing to encourage teachers to change their practice to included assessment for learning. Intertwining real experiences and examples from teacher, the authors offer a helpful plan for dealing with tough choices when attempting change. The authors take you through three stages of growth: starting off, consolidation and spread, and preparing for sustainability.

Download or read book Strategy Instruction for Middle and Secondary Students with Mild Disabilities written by Greg Conderman and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource features evidence-based strategies for teaching vocabulary, reading, written language, math, and science, as well as study skills, textbook skills, and self-regulation. It provides informal assessments for every content area or skill addressed, case studies that link assessment results, IEP goals, and learning strategies, and application activities with questions and suggested responses.

Download or read book The Independent Learner written by Starr Cline and published by Backinprint.com. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at helping both teachers and students understand the concept of independent study as a means of developing independent learners and at providing the insights for implementing that concept.

Download or read book Creating Independent Student Learners 7 9 written by Pauline Clarke and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical Guide to Assessment for Learning: Grades 7–9 is one book in the Creating Independent Student Learners set. The set includes guides for N–9 teachers and school leaders. The books can be used individually or as a set. This resource offers practical ways to help students become independent learners through 'assessment for learning.' The book is organized around an eight-step framework for good assessment. The authors include a detailed explanation of each step, recommendations for getting started, and teachers' anecdotes of their experiences using the steps. The book includes rubrics, working charts, thoughtful essays, and reproducibles. Practical learning approaches for each grade level are provided. These include: • Unit examples from social studies, science, math, phys. ed., and special education classes. • Designing units which transfer more responsibility to students. • Improving student performance on tests and assignments.

Download or read book Independent Learning written by Bill Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Get Better Faster written by Paul Bambrick-Santoyo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective and practical coaching strategies for new educators plus valuable online coaching tools Many teachers are only observed one or two times per year on average—and, even among those who are observed, scarcely any are given feedback as to how they could improve. The bottom line is clear: teachers do not need to be evaluated so much as they need to be developed and coached. In Get Better Faster: A 90-Day Plan for Coaching New Teachers, Paul Bambrick-Santoyo shares instructive tools of how school leaders can effectively guide new teachers to success. Over the course of the book, he breaks down the most critical actions leaders and teachers must take to achieve exemplary results. Designed for coaches as well as beginning teachers, Get Better Faster is an integral coaching tool for any school leader eager to help their teachers succeed. Get Better Faster focuses on what's practical and actionable which makes the book's approach to coaching so effective. By practicing the concrete actions and micro-skills listed in Get Better Faster, teachers will markedly improve their ability to lead a class, producing a steady chain reaction of future teaching success. Though focused heavily on the first 90 days of teacher development, it's possible to implement this work at any time. Junior and experienced teachers alike can benefit from the guidance of Get Better Faster while at the same time closing existing instructional gaps. Featuring valuable and practical online training tools available at http://www.wiley.com/go/getbetterfaster, Get Better Faster provides agendas, presentation slides, a coach's guide, handouts, planning templates, and 35 video clips of real teachers at work to help other educators apply the lessons learned in their own classrooms. Get Better Faster will teach you: The core principles of coaching: Go Granular; Plan, Practice, Follow Up, Repeat; Make Feedback More Frequent Top action steps to launch a teacher’s development in an easy-to-read scope and sequence guide It also walks you through the four phases of skill building: Phase 1 (Pre-Teaching): Dress Rehearsal Phase 2: Instant Immersion Phase 3: Getting into Gear Phase 4: The Power of Discourse Perfect for new educators and those who supervise them, Get Better Faster will also earn a place in the libraries of veteran teachers and school administrators seeking a one-stop coaching resource.

Download or read book Independent Reading written by Denise N. Morgan and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable book shows how to incorporate independent reading into daily literacy instruction in the primary grades. Provided are class-tested strategies for engaging students in independent reading; creating and organizing the classroom library; developing mini-lessons and different kinds of reading routines; supporting struggling readers; monitoring and assessing independent reading; and promoting reading at home. Helpful reproducibles are included. From a team of highly regarded educators, this is a wise and user-friendly resource that teachers can immediately put to use in the classroom.

Download or read book I am Jackie Robinson written by Brad Meltzer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We can all be heroes" is the message entertainingly told in this New York Times Bestselling picture-book biography series, with this title focusing on groundbreaking baseball player, Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson always loved sports, especially baseball. But he lived at a time before the Civil Rights Movement, when the rules weren't fair to African Americans. Even though Jackie was a great athlete, he wasn't allowed on the best teams just because of the color of his skin. Jackie knew that sports were best when everyone, of every color, played together. He became the first Black player in Major League Baseball, and his bravery changed American history and led the way to equality in all sports in America. This friendly, fun biography series inspired the PBS Kids TV show Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum. One great role model at a time, these books encourage kids to dream big. Included in each book are: • A timeline of key events in the hero’s history • Photos that bring the story more fully to life • Comic-book-style illustrations that are irresistibly adorable • Childhood moments that influenced the hero • Facts that make great conversation-starters • A virtue this person embodies: Jackie Robinson's bravery led him to make his mark in baseball history. You’ll want to collect each book in this dynamic, informative series!

Download or read book Create Independent Learners written by Patricia Pavelka and published by Staff Development for Educators. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noting that teachers' ultimate goal for their students is that they begin to apply strategies on their own and learn how to be independent, strategic, successful learners, this book presents numerous activities, strategies, and ideas to help students of all learning abilities in grades 1 through 5 become independent learners. The guide was designed to help teachers deliver their curriculum, rather than adding to it, and it is divided into four parts: (1) "Foundations" covers classroom routines, methods of organization, and knowing what motivates and interests students; (2) "Strategies and Activities for Language Arts" provides a repertoire of ideas and suggestions to help students in the language arts area, including using the three cueing systems, spelling and decoding, pattern words, sight words, and writing; (3) "Strategies and Activities across the Curriculum" focuses on five specific activities and strategies to help students become independent, strategic, successful learners across the curriculum (flipbooks, highlighting tape, webs, scripts, and graphic organizers and structured overviews) and shows how to manage and apply these ideas within the contexts of diverse classrooms; and (4) "Home/School Connection" provides specific ideas and activities that parents can do at home with children when they are facing difficult tasks, information on how to set up parent workshops and informational meetings, and reproducible parent letters. Throughout the guide, sections titled "A Closer Look: A Real Life Classroom Example" illustrate a strategy or idea being applied in a real classroom. (EV)

Download or read book Creating Independent Student Learners 4 6 written by Pauline Clarke and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical Guide to Assessment for Learning: Grades 4–6 is one book in the Creating Independent Student Learners set. The set includes guides for N–9 teachers and school leaders. The books can be used individually or as a set. This resource offers practical ways to help students become independent learners through 'assessment for learning.' The book is organized around an eight-step framework for good assessment. The authors include a detailed explanation of each step, recommendations for getting started, and teachers' anecdotes of their experiences using the steps. The book includes rubrics, working charts, thoughtful essays, and reproducibles. Practical learning approaches for each grade level are provided. These include: • Questions to help students deepen their understanding; • Finding time to help students reflect on their work; • Strategy charts to help students be independent; and • Conversations in art to help students improve their work.

Download or read book 100th Day Worries written by Margery Cuyler and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jessica's teacher tells everyone in class to find 100 things to bring to school for their 100th day, Jessica starts to worry. She wants to bring something really good. but what? 100 marshmallows? No, too sticky. 100 yo-yos? Nah, that's silly. When Jessica reaches the 99th day, she really starts to worry. She still doesn't know what to bring! Could the best collection of 100 things be right under her eyes?

Download or read book Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning and Advanced Education ICOLAE 2022 written by Mauly Halwat Hikmat and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 2656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. The COVID-19 pandemic in the last two years has influenced how educational system works. Online learning became the primal policy taken by all institutions in the world to lower the risk of the virus spread. Despite the drawbacks of the online learning, teachers and students were accustomed with the distant learning through web meetings, Learning Management Systems (LMS) and other online learning platforms. In that time, topics under digital learning and education 5.0 were the main stakes in academic disseminations. This year some institutions start to conduct their teaching and learning process classically as before the pandemic, others are still continuing online and not few are in hybrid. This leaves a question: what learning reform should be made in post-pandemic era? This conference invites researchers, experts, teachers and students to discuss the coping solutions of the question. It is important for them to contribute to the understanding of re-imaging online education for better futures, innovative learning design, new skills for living and working in new times, global challenge of education, learning and teaching with blended learning, flipped learning, integrating life skills for students in the curriculum, developing educators for the future distance learning, humanities learning in the digital era, assessment and measurement in education, challenges and transformations in education, technology in teaching and learning, new learning and teaching models. Not limited to these, scholars may add another interesting topic related to learning reform in post-pandemic era to present.

Download or read book The Understanding by Design Guide to Advanced Concepts in Creating and Reviewing Units written by Grant P. Wiggins and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2012 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume features a set of hands-on modules containing worksheets, models, and self-assessments that are essential for building more polished and powerful units"--

Download or read book Building a Bridge From I Can t to I DID written by Jenn Kleiber and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building a Bridge From "I Can't" to "I DID!" provides hope and solutions to teachers as they work with students that may be struggling to succeed. Through the lens of culturally responsive teaching, this book provides much needed knowledge and strategies for creating a rigorous, culturally aware learning environment that brings out the most learning in students. The goal of this book is to empower teachers to move their students from dependent learners to independent learners, enabling them to problem solve, ask questions, and have higher level academic conversations. After reading this book, teachers will be able to: differentiate between the collectivist and individualist cultureshift students from dependent to independent learnersconquer learned helplessnessempathize with students from different cultural and economic backgroundsbuild rigorous, scaffolded lessons with high expectations Every student is unique and should receive an education that is conducive to their needs, enhancing their abilities and creating the success they deserve. Let's start Building a Bridge From "I Can't" to "I DID!"

Download or read book Discussion as a Way of Teaching written by Stephen Brookfield and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written for all university and college teachers interested in experimenting with discussion methods in their classrooms. Discussion as a Way of Teaching is a book full of ideas, techniques, and usable suggestions on: * How to prepare students and teachers to participate in discussion * How to get discussions started * How to keep discussions going * How to ensure that teachers' and students' voices are kept in some sort of balance It considers the influence of factors of race, class and gender on discussion groups and argues that teachers need to intervene to prevent patterns of inequity present in the wider society automatically reproducing themselves inside the discussion-based classroom. It also grounds the evaluation of discussions in the multiple subjectivities of students' perceptions. An invaluable and helpful resource for university and college teachers who use, or are thinking of using, discussion approaches.