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Frey, Nancy E.; Fisher, Douglas B. – ASCD, 2011
Students perform poorly on assessments primarily because they don't see the relevance of the content they are expected to master, they think they know the material but really don't, or teachers don't recognize that students aren't learning. Now there's a way you can overcome all of those challenges by using the improved formative assessment system…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Student Motivation
Noyce, Pendred E., Ed.; Hickey, Daniel T., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2011
"Formative assessment is a powerful learning tool that is too seldom, too haphazardly, and too ineffectively used in the United States," Pendred E. Noyce writes in the introduction to this volume. "The purpose of this book is to delve into why this is so and how it can be changed." Formative assessment involves constantly monitoring student…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Misconceptions, Student Evaluation, Educational Strategies
Thompson, Robin; Kitchie, Laurie; Gagnon, Robert – Corwin, 2011
What if your professional learning community was available 24 hours a day, every day of the year? Would you like to have a place to share lesson plans, student work, a new curriculum, and to provide a discussion forum for all stakeholders? You can, even with only a basic understanding of technology. The authors explain how they created an online…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Core Curriculum, Educational Technology, Communities of Practice
Lines, Cathy; Miller, Gloria; Arthur-Stanley, Amanda – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
Ongoing, strategic family-school partnering (FSP) is an essential component of every educational community. FSP is a multi-dimensional process in which schools, families, and communities engage in shared actions to ensure a child's academic, social, and emotional success. With this text, the authors intend to offer a practical guide that…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Systems Approach, Mental Health Programs, Partnerships in Education
Cox-Petersen, Amy – SAGE Publications (CA), 2010
This comprehensive text helps prepare pre-service and in-service teachers to build and sustain family, school, and community partnerships that are vital to student success. Focusing on grades preK-8, and with a particular emphasis on diverse families and learners, this book helps teachers to overcome barriers, create action plans, and sustain…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Community Organizations, School Community Relationship, Family School Relationship
Sandvold, Amy; Baxter, Maelou – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2008
This book contains strategies for effective literacy coaching of teachers in districts and schools. Whether it's your job to start a literacy coaching initiative or to be an effective literacy coach to your colleagues, this guide has all the steps and strategies you need: (1) Roles and responsibilities of literacy coaches; (2) Keys to building…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Coaching (Performance), Literacy, Teacher Role
Blachowicz, Camille L.Z.; Buhle, Roberta; Frost, Shari – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2009
In "Effective Literacy Coaching: Building Expertise and a Culture of Literacy," literacy experts Shari Frost, Roberta Buhle, and Camille Blachowicz provide more than 50 practical activities designed to help K-12 literacy professionals: (1) Assess the current literacy program; (2) Plan changes that will foster a culture of literacy; (3) Collaborate…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy
Allen, Rick – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2007
Complete your review of where science education in the U.S. is heading with this wide-ranging look at secondary-level science curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Through lively examples of classroom practice, interviews with award-winning science teachers and science education experts, and a thorough review of the research, discover how…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Education, Science Curriculum, Science Instruction
Alstete, Jeffrey W. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2004
This book focuses on contemporary accreditation, why it matters, and how it can be done effectively. The author covers historical background, getting started, strategies for achieving accreditation, and visions for future academic success, with examples and case studies. Accreditation is the primary way of ensuring the quality of higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational History, Program Development
Mays, Marilyn Elaine, Ed. – 1998
Presented at a 1996 conference on the implications of the Human Genome Project for community and technical colleges, the 30 papers included in this monograph describe methods for incorporating genetics studies into the two-year college curriculum. Among the papers provided are: (1) "Facing the Unknown: The Ethical Challenges of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, DNA, Educational Strategies
Neff, Kenneth – 1974
The study team reports from the Program of Studies in Non-Formal Education series SO 008 056 through SO 008 065 define non-formal education and search for cross-cultural applications within the research. This document in the series assumes that there are cross-cultural applications for non-formal, educational research and searches for ways and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Developing Nations, Educational Strategies, International Education
Carini, Patricia F. – 1975
This monograph is one of a continuing series initiated to provide materials for teachers, parents, school administrators, and governmental decision-makers that might encourage reexamination of a range of evaluation issues and perspectives about schools and schooling. This monograph suggests a radical departure from the approaches to educational…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Conceptual Schemes, Educational Change
Ressler, Ralph – 1973
To describe how to implement career education concepts without disrupting or destroying the present curriculum is the goal of this book. It discusses what career development programs mean to both the teacher and youngster in the average classroom and identifies the beneficial effects such programs will have on teaching and learning. The role of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Educational Strategies
Jesser, David L. – 1976
The book provides a selected summary of five reports regarding a study by the Council of Chief State School Officers relative to career education. In Chapter 1, The Concept of Career Education, the author presents a broad discussion of career education, its operational processes, results of a questionnaire from 41 States and territories, and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Development
Svinicki, Marilla, Ed.; And Others – 1986
This collection of papers, the fifth in an annual series, presents views of members of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education on improving teaching and learning in higher education settings. Articles and their authors are as follows: "Reflections of a Practitioner: Ten Years of Professional and Organization…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement