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Instructional Agility by Cassandra Erkens,Tom Schimmer,Nicole Dimich,Nicole Dimich Vagle Pdf
Readers will : learn how to foster and maintain a culture of learning in K-12 classrooms ; discover how the tenet of instructional agility fits within the assessment framework ; gain strategies to enhance their instructional agility and assessment practices ; consider examples of teachers and administrators applying instructional agility in their daily practice ; answer questions to contemplate their next steps in bringing effective assessment and instructional agility to the classroom.--Publisher.
Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Assessment and Grading by Nicole Dimich,Cassandra Erkens,Jadi Miller,Tom Schimmer,Katie White Pdf
Get answers to your most challenging questions about implementing effective assessment and grading practices. How do we use assessments to increase hope, efficacy, and achievement? Is reassessment important? Can we change grading practices when stakeholders don’t want us to? All of these questions, and dozens more, are answered concisely, making it easy to build strong assessment and grading practices quickly. K–12 teachers and administrators will: Understand the six tenets of assessment and grading Gain confidence in effective assessment and grading practices Access concise answers to common questions about assessment and grading Help implement schoolwide best practices through effective collaboration Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement Chapter 2: A Culture of Learning Chapter 3: Assessment Purpose Chapter 4: Communication Chapter 5: Accurate Interpretation Chapter 6: Assessment Architecture Chapter 7: Instructional Agility Chapter 8: Student Investment Table of Contents by Topic Glossary of Terms A Comprehensive Resource List From STAC References and Resources Index
Start Where You Are, But Don't Stay There, Second Edition by H. Richard Milner Pdf
2021 PROSE Award Finalist, Education Practice and Theory Category In the thoroughly revised second edition of Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There, H. Richard Milner IV addresses the knowledge and insights required on the part of teachers and school leaders to serve students of color. Milner focuses on a crucial issue in teacher training and professional education: the need to prepare teachers for the racially diverse student populations in their classrooms. The book, anchored in real world experiences, centers on case studies that exemplify the challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities facing teachers in diverse classrooms. The case studies—of teachers in urban and suburban settings—are presented amid current discussions about race and teaching. In addition, the second edition includes a new chapter dedicated to opportunity gaps in education and an expanded discussion of how Opportunity Centered Teaching can address these gaps. Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There strives to help educators in the fight for social justice, equity, inclusion, and transformation for all students. It is a book urgently needed in today’s increasingly diverse classrooms.
Jackpot! by Nicole Dimich,Cassandra Erkens,Tom Schimmer Pdf
An age-old question universal to all teachers is “How do we get our students to care about their learning?” Jackpot! delivers actionable strategies to achieve that most important outcome of assessment—student investment. Not only does the book offer tools you can use, but it also addresses the mindset shift necessary for teachers to set students up for success as partners in their own learning. Classroom teachers will: Explore case studies covering a wide range of classroom experiences Gain access to many different tools to successfully orient a growth mindset toward assessment Understand the ideas behind successful assessment and how to put it into practice Utilize sample charts to better direct the course of learning improvements Reflect on personal classroom experiences and ways to improve Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1: Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement in a Learning Culture Chapter 2: Assessment Purpose Chapter 3: Assessment Architecture Chapter 4: Interpretation of Results Chapter 5: Communication Chapter 6: Instructional Agility Epilogue References and Resources Index
Handbook of Teaching with Technology in Management, Leadership, and Business by Stuart Allen,Kim Gower,Danielle K. Allen Pdf
Ever-evolving technological innovation creates both opportunities and challenges for educators aiming to achieve meaningful and effective learning in the classroom and to equip students with a well-honed set of technology skills as they enter the professional world. The Handbook of Teaching with Technology in Management, Leadership, and Business is written by experienced instructors using technology in novel and impactful ways in their undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as researchers reporting and reflecting on studies and literature that can guide them on the how and why of teaching with technology.
Teaching Students to Communicate Mathematically by Laney Sammons Pdf
Students learning math are expected to do more than just solve problems; they must also be able to demonstrate their thinking and share their ideas, both orally and in writing. As many classroom teachers have discovered, these can be challenging tasks for students. The good news is, mathematical communication can be taught and mastered. In Teaching Students to Communicate Mathematically, Laney Sammons provides practical assistance for K–8 classroom teachers. Drawing on her vast knowledge and experience as a classroom teacher, she covers the basics of effective mathematical communication and offers specific strategies for teaching students how to speak and write about math. Sammons also presents useful suggestions for helping students incorporate correct vocabulary and appropriate representations when presenting their mathematical ideas. This must-have resource will help you help your students improve their understanding of and their skill and confidence in mathematical communication.
Increase the achievement of every learner with Student Self-Assessment. In this practical guide, author Katie White outlines how to plan and implement various self-assessment strategies to ensure student growth at all grade levels. She covers every stage of the process--from setup to goal setting to celebrating. In each chapter, you'll find helpful step-by-step guidelines as well as questions to guide conversation and reflection throughout the journey. Understand how self-assessment skills benefit students now and in the future. Learn how to set up a self-assessment process and document learning. Train students to analyze and reflect on their own performance. Set strong, achievable goals in order to motivate students to realize their potential. Celebrate successes and continue to engage students with self-assessment. Contents: Introduction: Embracing Student Self-Assessment Chapter 1: Making a Compelling Case for Student-Self-Assessment Chapter 2: Setting Up a Self-Assessment Process and Documenting Learning Chapter 3: Engaging in Analysis and Reflection Chapter 4: Imagining Possibilities and Setting Goals Chapter 5: Celebrating Growth Chapter 6: Examining Age, Security, Families, and Other Factors Epilogue Appendix: Sample Self-Assessment Sequence References and Resources Index
Voicing Diverse Teaching Experiences, Approaches, and Perspectives in Higher Education by Alvarez, Wilfredo,De Walt, Patrick S. Pdf
The U.S. higher education system is changing demographically. With these complex changes also comes a greater diversity of people entering spaces that they could not previously access. This new dynamic is exciting; however, it also comes with challenges. New approaches must be developed to facilitate the acceptance of this greater diversity. Voicing Diverse Teaching Experiences, Approaches, and Perspectives in Higher Education extends the conversation on how to engage diverse and complex social identity groups in a system historically designed to be exclusive of their lived experiences. This book elevates the voices of people who have been absent in the academy and considers these experiences across various types of institutions, academic disciplines, and ranks. Covering topics such as critical race theory, diverse gender identities, and interpersonal needs, this book is an essential resource for higher education administrators, faculty and students of higher education, organizational leaders, academicians, pre-service teachers, and researchers.
Instruction that Measures Up by W. James Popham Pdf
High-stakes testing. Mandated content standards and benchmarks. Public scrutiny of student and school performance. Accountability. Teachers today are challenged to provide instruction that will measure up: to the expectations of administrators, parents, and taxpayers; to their own professional standards; and, most essentially, to the needs of students. Policy debates rage in the press, and pedagogical pundits always have a new and better solution to offer, but inside the walls of the classroom, instruction boils down to teachers deciding what they want their students to learn, planning how to promote that learning, implementing those plans, and then determining if the plans worked. And the best instructional decisions are informed by empirical research, assessment evidence, and the sound judgment of the professional educator. In this book, W. James Popham calls on his half-century in the classroom to provide a practical, four-stage framework for guiding teachers through their most important instructional decisions: curriculum determination, instructional design, instructional monitoring, and instructional evaluation. Along the way, he emphasizes the critical ways in which assessment can and should influence instruction, advocates for a dash of curricular insurrection, and offers advice for maintaining both teaching excellence and teachers' sanity.
Promoting Positive Learning Experiences in Middle School Education by Gaines, Cherie Barnett,Hutson, Kristy M. Pdf
Declining academic performance, along with a growing apathy of students toward the value of education, demonstrates that students in the United States public education system do not recognize the value of a positive experience in middle schools. A plethora of research and writing has been done on elementary schools and secondary schools, but middle school education, as a whole, has been left behind. For this reason, there is the need for current research on all aspects and topics that may contribute to middle school student success. Promoting Positive Learning Experiences in Middle School Education focuses on the ideal conditions for maximizing student success and engagement in middle school education. The chapters take a deeper look into the modern tools, technologies, methods, and theories driving current research on middle school students, their teachers, their classroom environment, and their learning. Highlighting topics such as curriculum reform, instructional strategies and practices, effective teaching, and technology in the modern classroom, this book is ideally intended for middle school teachers, middle school administrators, and school district administrators, along with practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in middle school education and student success.
This book is about improving and sustaining agility by focusing on people over process, as the first agile value advocates, and is the third and final book in the author's Lean and Agile Software trilogy. The first – A Tale of Two Systems: Lean and Agile Software Development for Business Leaders – describes what agile is and why we do it. The second – A Tale of Two Transformations: Bringing Lean and Agile Software Development to Life – guides leaders in transforming their organizations to adopt this approach. All three books mix description and elaboration of theory with practical demonstration in fictional companies and projects. This new, third book – People over Process: Leadership for Agility – presents a model of facilitative leadership for agility, which informs the entire book. It begins by describing the roots of the agile movement, which motivates the centrality of people and the need for leadership. The leadership model is then presented, very simply: rigor, alignment, efficiency, through frameworks. Leadership is considered for all team members, and then for the special case of the responsibilities of leaders in formal positions of organizational authority. With this strong background presented, the book proceeds to describe and demonstrate common and highly useful frameworks for agility. The fictional Pacifica Bank is introduced, and we see the Pacifica team work through architecture, project planning, team structure, governance, scrum meeting, and ultimately retrospectives, using frameworks that have been presented. An Appendix summarizes the most useful frameworks for future reference. Throughout the book concepts are illustrated with vignettes from my experience (in the didactic sections) and with the Pacifica fictional case study. The key benefits of the book are to make everyone involved in agile work more effective and fulfilled. Essentially, since agile was first introduced almost two decades ago, the primary focus in practice has been on process. The "scrum" methodology was developed and promulgated, and has been widely adopted. This has been on balance broadly positive, but as an industry we have progressed to the point where following the steps of a methodology, particularly one that seeks to implement concepts where the first value is "People over Process," has reached its limits. The reader of this book: • Gains a powerful, simple model of leadership that enables the "People" in "People over Process;" • Sees these principles in action in a fictional company, making agile leadership understandable and engaging; • Improves their ability to participate in and lead agility; • Learns extraordinarily useful "frameworks" that help in the most important activities in agile software. In short, the reader will be better at delivering valuable software solutions, more valuable to their organizations, and more fulfilled in their work.
Essential Assessment by Cassandra Erkens,Tom Schimmer,Nicole Dimich Pdf
While much research has revealed which assessment practices have the most positive impact on student achievement and instruction, out-of-date, unproductive practices, which students find disengaging and disheartening, still persist. Discover how to use the power of assessment to instill hope, efficacy, and achievement in your students. With this research-based resource, you'll explore six essential tenets of assessment--assessment purpose, communication of assessment results, accurate interpretation, assessment architecture, instructional agility, and student investment--that will help deepen your understanding of assessment to not only meet standards but also enhance students' academic success and self-fulfillment. Benefits Interpret the research-based tenets of assessment that are necessary to maximize all students' learning. Gain advice and strategies for immediately acting on the six essential assessment tenets, including how to communicate assessment results to give feedback that produces constructive responses. Discover why it is vital that assessment practices build students' and teachers' hope, efficacy, and achievement. Consider scenarios that illustrate traditional, outmoded assessment practices and revised scenarios that feature practices that better reflect modern assessment needs. Reflect on questions related to the content of each chapter and study next steps that teaching teams can take. Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement Chapter 2: Assessment Purpose Chapter 3: Communication of Assessment Results Chapter 4: Accurate Interpretation Chapter 5: Assessment Architecture Chapter 6: Instructional Agility Chapter 7: Student Investment References Index
IConVET 2022 by Dessy Seri Wahyuni,Gede Indrawan,Nyoman Sugihartini Pdf
The 5th International Conference on Vocational Education and Technology is an international forum specially designed by the Faculty of Engineering and Vocational, Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha to bring together academics, researchers and professionals to present their ideas and experiences in a scientific event. IConVET 2022 welcomes paper submissions for innovative work from researchers from diverse backgrounds including students, teachers, researchers, practitioners and the general public in Education, Vocational and Technology. The IConVET-2022 theme is "Modern Education and Technology in Vocational”. The geographic diversity of our authors came from universities and institutions throughout Indonesia. We received whose full papers were further selected by outstanding reviewers from different institutions. We received a total of 50 submission of full papers and through a quite process, we finally accepted 30 papers for presentations and publish. Therefore, on behalf of the committee and the Research Institute of Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha. The success of the IConVET-2022 is due to the support of many people i.e. steering committee members, program committee members, organizing committee members, authors, presenters, participants, keynote speakers, student committee, and people in other various roles. We would like to thank them all.
Educational Principles and Practice in Veterinary Medicine by Katherine Fogelberg Pdf
An in-depth, veterinary-centered reference to the discipline of education Educational Principles and Practice in Veterinary Medicine provides a detailed, comprehensive reference to the discipline of education both broadly and as it relates to veterinary medicine. Written for veterinary faculty members, instructors, and educators in other health professions, the book offers an in-depth examination of knowledge and skills related to veterinary education. It discusses educational theory, how people learn, the structure and function of higher education, and educational technologies, among many other topics of importance. Sections cover educational leadership; professional development for faculty; research methods and study design; administration; outcomes and assessment; accreditation; and the roles of the professional program instructor. Educational Principles and Practice in Veterinary Medicine: Provides a detailed exposition to the discipline of education, encompassing both theory and practice Covers essential topics such as educational theory, the structure and function of higher education, and educational technologies, all tailored to veterinary education Acts as a reference to education-related knowledge and skills, with an emphasis on how these topics relate to veterinary medicine Supports veterinary faculty and instructors interested in taking their knowledge and skills to the next level Educational Principles and Practice in Veterinary Medicine offers veterinary faculty and instructors a complete resource for understanding the field of education and improving their skills and knowledge.
Singletons in a PLC at Work® by Brig Leane,Jon Yost Pdf
In a professional learning community, isolation is the enemy of school improvement. But what does collaboration among teachers look like when you can’t easily identify with a team? This book will help singleton teachers first develop clarity on learning essentials, then find creative entry points to form collaborative teams. Drawing from their own experiences, the authors offer practical solutions for eliminating the practice of isolation for all educators. Collaborative teams will: Understand what meaningful collaboration is and how singletons can utilize the PLC process Build the groundwork for meaningful collaboration using strategies for your specific situation Implement meaningful collaboration as a singleton across separate schools or within the same school Align disparate singletons under the same unifying PLC process Contents: Chapter 1: Meaningful Collaboration Chapter 2: Singleton On-Ramps for Collaboration Chapter 3: Preparation for Meaningful Collaboration Chapter 4: Course-Alike Entry Point—The Virtual Team Chapter 5: Common-Content Entry Point Chapter 6: Critical-Friend Entry Point Chapter 7: Putting It All Together Afterword: Final Thoughts References and Resources Index
