This do-it-yourself resource, dealing with one of teaching's most vexing aspects, will help teachers, teams, or an entire faculty develop ways more effective than grades to assess student progress. The kit contains all materials and activities needed for carrying out an engaging and thorough professional development experience. Tasks lead users to reassess current practices, consider and experiment with alternative approaches, and initiate portfolios to help students become responsible for their own learning.

Assessing Student Progress: Moving from Grades to Portfolios

Sandra L. Schurr

John H. Lounsbury

National Middle School Association

DVD Included!Increase student achievement and learning. Revitalize your team's operation and effectiveness. Achieve these two interrelated goals with this book and supplemental DVD. Team members work their way through readings and activities as they reflect on their team's operation and agree on self-imposed changes guaranteed to ensure increased student learning. The DVD includes video clips from eight schools across the United States-urban, suburban, rural, and small town-that will affirm the good practices you already employ, and identify ways to improve teaming in your school.

Revitalizing Teaming to Improve Student Learning (Staff development kit)

Here is a virtual gold mine of engaging materials that will bring students' understanding of mathematics to new and needed levels. These classroom-ready resources are specifically designed to help students meet the standards set by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) for grades 6-8. Included are 78 student-friendly Bloom Sheets. Each one calls for students to complete tasks that involve all six levels of learning as set forth in the classic Bloom's Taxonomy. Organized in sections aligned with the NCTM standards, these sheets can be used as class work, for enrichment or independent study, or as supplements in any math class or program - they also make great homework assignments for students to complete with the active involvement of their parents. In addition, the timely volume contains a raft of related imaginative and engaging activities and alternative ways to assess learning in mathematics.

Ignite Student Intellect and Imagination in Mathematics

Kathy L. LaMorte

Here is a virtual gold mine of engaging materials that will bring students' understanding of language arts to new and needed levels. These classroom-ready resources are specifically designed to help students meet the standards set by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the International Reading Association (IRA) for grades 6-8. Included are 94 student-friendly Bloom Sheets. Each one calls for students to complete tasks that involve all six levels of learning as set forth in the classic Bloom's Taxonomy. Organized in sections aligned with the NCTE/IRA standards, these sheets can be used as class work, for enrichment or independent study, or as supplements in any language arts class or program - they also make great homework assignments for students to complete with the active involvement of their parents. In addition, the timely volume contains a raft of related imaginative and engaging activities and alternative ways to assess learning in language arts.

Ignite Student Intellect and Imagination in Language Arts

Bring relevance to social studies with these creative and thought-provoking activities that will get kids excited and so engaged that every student will sparkle in the classroom. The 87 bloom sheets in this book are organized in sections aligned with the 10 National Council for the Social Studies themes that are the national standards. These Bloom Sheets can be used as class work with small groups, for enrichment or independent study, or as supplements in any class that focuses on social studies. They also make great out-of-school assignments that students can complete with the active involvement of their parents. In addition, a raft of related imaginative activities and alternative ways to assess learning in the social studies are included.

Ignite Student Intellect and Imagination in Social Studies

The revised Bloom s Taxonomy provides the framework for these classroom-ready materials that are aligned with the standards set by the National Academy of Sciences. 
Each of the 76 Bloom Sheets offers tasks that involve all six levels of learning from remembering to creating. They can be used as class work, for enrichment or independent study, for group work, or as a supplement in any science class. They also make great homework assignments for students to complete with the active involvement of parents and family members. 
Supplementing the Bloom Sheets is a raft of imaginative activities and alternative ways to assess learning. Keep this resource handy, for you will want to tap its riches regularly.

Ignite Student Intellect and Imagination in Science

Science & Math

Mathematics

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