How to Meet Standards, Motivate Students, and Still Enjoy Teaching! : Four Practices That Improve Student Learning.

Emphasizes following a standards-based curriculum while creating a community of learners, making reflection routine, teaching content and process, and developing authentic tasks and assessments.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Benson, Barbara P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2008.
Temas:
Educational tests and measurements > United States.
Education > Standards > United States.
Effective teaching > United States.
Tests et mesures en éducation > États-Unis.
Enseignement efficace > États-Unis.
Education > Standards
Educational tests and measurements
Effective teaching
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Introduction: Focusing on Standards in the Classroom
  • A Positive View of Standards
  • Taking a Big-Picture Look at Standards
  • Standards and the Classroom
  • Four Practices That Meet Standards and Motivate Students
  • Ideas for Teachers
  • Ideas for Administrators
  • Chapter 1
  • Creating a Community of Learners
  • Why Do I Need a Community of Learners in My Classroom?
  • The Helpless and the Hopeless Students
  • Help Students become Self-Directed Learners
  • Have an Interactive Classroom
  • Helping Students Work Cooperatively
  • Strategies for Group Work in a Community of Learners
  • A Quality Focus
  • The Community of Learners, a Final View
  • Ideas for Teachers
  • Ideas for Administrators
  • Chapter 2
  • Making Reflection Routine
  • Teacher Reflection
  • Student Reflection
  • Concluding Reflection
  • Ideas for Teachers
  • Ideas for Administrators
  • Chapter 3
  • Teaching Content and Process
  • The Learner Actions
  • Using the Learner Actions to Meet Standards
  • Analyzing Lessons to See Who is Doing all the Work
  • Ideas for Teachers
  • Ideas for Administrators
  • Chapter 4
  • Developing More Authentic Tasks and Assessments
  • What Type of Work Should Students be Doing?
  • Performance Tasks
  • Designing Tasks
  • Assessment and Evaluation
  • Assessing and Evaluating Performance Tasks
  • Tasks and Assessment: Final Thoughts
  • Ideas for Teachers
  • Ideas for Administrators
  • Conclusion: Implementing the Four Practices in a High-Stakes Test Environment
  • What about the Tests?
  • If Tests Don't Always Match the Standards, Why Do We Have Them?
  • Teach Past the Tests to the Standards
  • Don't Ignore the Tests, But Don't Obsess over Them
  • Teaching the Learner Action Verbs in the Standards is Test Preparation
  • Final Thoughts.
  • Resources: Reproducible Forms
  • References and Further Readings
  • Index.

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