A Handbook for Developing and Using Proficiency Scales in the Classroom
A Handbook for Developing and Using Proficiency Scales in the Classroom

Author: Jan K. Hoegh

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-30

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781943360277

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Discover a clear path for creating and utilizing high-quality proficiency scales. Through this practical handbook, you will gain access to a comprehensive toolkit of strategies, methods, and examples for a variety of content areas and grade levels. The author also outlines an array of accommodations and modifications to support students with disabilities, English learners, and gifted and talented students. Benefits: Understand how to create and use proficiency scales to clearly frame classroom instruction and assessments. Learn how to write high-quality proficiency scales and review how to enrich student learning opportunities. Recognize the various ways teachers, students, and parents can use proficiency scales. Access rubrics, criteria checklists, and pacing guides that you can use in concert with proficiency scales to provide valuable feedback to students. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: The What and Why of Proficiency Scales Chapter 2: Developing Proficiency Scales Chapter 3: Score 4.0--Complex Content Chapter 4: Using Proficiency Scales in the Classroom Chapter 5: Scales and Related Tools Chapter 6: Using Scales With Exceptional Learners Chapter 7: Scales for Behaviors That Promote Academic Success Epilogue Appendices

Proficiency Scales for the New Science Standards
Proficiency Scales for the New Science Standards

Author: Robert J, Marzano

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Published: 2015-08-17

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0991374851

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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.

A School Leader's Guide to Standards-Based Grading
A School Leader's Guide to Standards-Based Grading

Author: Tammy Heflebower

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Published: 2014-05-30

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 0985890290

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Accurately report students’ academic strengths and weaknesses with standards-based grading. Rather than using traditional systems that incorporate nonacademic factors such as attendance and behavior, learn to assess and report student performance based on prioritized standards. You will discover reliable, practical methods for analyzing what students have learned and gain effective strategies for offering students feedback on their progress.

Handbook of Digital Politics
Handbook of Digital Politics

Author: Stephen Coleman

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-11-03

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1800377584

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This thoroughly revised second edition Handbook examines the latest knowledge and perspectives on digital politics. Leading scholars explore the expansion of digital technologies, channels and styles as it shapes political dynamics.

A Teacher's Guide to Standards-based Learning
A Teacher's Guide to Standards-based Learning

Author: Tammy Heflebower

Publisher: Marzano Resources

Published: 2018-09-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781943360253

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When teachers adopt standards-based learning, students take ownership of their education and achievement soars. Written specifically for K-12 teachers, this resource details a sequential approach for connecting curriculum, instruction, assessment methods, and feedback through standards-based education. The authors provide practical advice, real-world examples, and answers to frequently asked questions designed to support you through this important transition.

A Handbook for High Reliability Schools
A Handbook for High Reliability Schools

Author: Robert J. Marzano

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 0985890207

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Usher in the new era of school reform. The authors help you transform your schools into organizations that take proactive steps to prevent failure and ensure student success. Using a research-based five-level hierarchy along with leading and lagging indicators, you’ll learn to assess, monitor, and confirm the effectiveness of your schools. Each chapter includes what actions should be taken at each level.

Geometry of Single-point Turning Tools and Drills
Geometry of Single-point Turning Tools and Drills

Author: Viktor P. Astakhov

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-07-29

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 1849960534

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Geometry of Single-Point Turning Tools and Drills outlines clear objectives of cutting tool geometry selection and optimization, using multiple examples to provide a thorough explanation. It addresses several urgent problems that many present-day tool manufacturers, tool application specialists, and tool users, are facing. It is both a practical guide, offering useful, practical suggestions for the solution of common problems, and a useful reference on the most important aspects of cutting tool design, application, and troubleshooting practices. Covering emerging trends in cutting tool design, cutting tool geometry, machining regimes, and optimization of machining operations, Geometry of Single-Point Turning Tools and Drills is an indispensable source of information for tool designers, manufacturing engineers, research workers, and students.

Becoming a Reflective Teacher
Becoming a Reflective Teacher

Author: Robert J. Marzano

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Published: 2012-03-28

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0983351252

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Just as successful athletes must identify strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and engage in focused practice to meet their goals, so must teachers. Learn how to combine a model of effective instruction with goal setting, focused practice, focused feedback, and observations to improve your instructional practices. Included are 280 strategies related to the 41 elements of effective teaching shown to enhance student achievement.

Coaching Classroom Instruction
Coaching Classroom Instruction

Author: Tom Roy

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Published: 2012-12-27

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0983351287

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A must-have resource for coaches, leaders, and teams, this book covers approaches for boosting professional growth and macrostrategies that are responsive to student needs. Learn how to offer targeted feedback to teachers, empowering them to identify how they can improve their knowledge and skill. Step-by-step guidelines will help teachers increase their performance on the 280 research-based strategies from Becoming a Reflective Teacher.

SAGE Handbook of Research on Classroom Assessment
SAGE Handbook of Research on Classroom Assessment

Author: James H. McMillan

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 1412995876

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The Sage Handbook of Research on Classroom Assessment provides scholars, professors, graduate students, and other researchers and policy makers in the organizations, agencies, testing companies, and school districts with a comprehensive source of research on all aspects of K-12 classroom assessment. The handbook emphasizes theory, conceptual frameworks, and all varieties of research (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods) to provide an in-depth understanding of the knowledge base in each area of classroom assessment and how to conduct inquiry in the area. It presents classroom assessment research to convey, in depth, the state of knowledge and understanding that is represented by the research, with particular emphasis on how classroom assessment practices affect student achieventment and teacher behavior. Editor James H. McMillan and five Associate Editors bring the best thinking and analysis from leading classroom assessment researchers on the nature of the research, making significant contributions to this prominent and hotly debated topic in education.