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Dolan, Erin; Grady, Julia – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2010
Teaching by inquiry is touted for its potential to encourage students to reason scientifically. Yet, even when inquiry teaching is practiced, complexity of students' reasoning may be limited or unbalanced. We describe an analytic tool for recognizing when students are engaged in complex reasoning during inquiry teaching. Using classrooms that…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Science Instruction
Hardiman, Mariale – Corwin, 2012
"The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model for 21st-Century Schools" serves as a bridge between research and practice by providing a cohesive, proven, and usable model of effective instruction. Compatible with other professional development programs, this model shows how to apply relevant research from educational and cognitive neuroscience to classroom…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Teaching Models, Brain, Learning Experience
Stanley, Todd; Moore, Betsy – Eye on Education, 2011
The ideas and examples in this book help teachers successfully collaborate to raise student achievement through the use of formative assessments. Here, Todd Stanley and Betsy Moore, educators with over 40 years of combined experience, offer proven formative assessment strategies to teachers in a professional learning community. Contents include:…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice, Educational Assessment
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Coulter, Gail; Shavin, Karen; Gichuru, Margaret – Preventing School Failure, 2009
Children in general education are classified by measures of oral reading fluency (ORF) to determine the level of support needed for reading. In addition, teachers use ORF measures with children who receive special education services to determine whether they are making progress toward their reading goals. In this descriptive study, the authors…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Reading Fluency, Scoring, Classification
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Dudley, Dean; Baxter, David – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
This paper reports the findings of an exploratory study concerning the development of higher-order conceptual understanding of Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) among physical education pre-service teachers. The development of such understandings has been seen as problematic among pre-service teachers (Randall, 2003). An analysis of the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Student Evaluation, Preservice Teachers
Westphal, Laurie E. – Prufrock Press Inc, 2007
"Differentiating Instruction With Menus Grades 3-5" offers teachers everything they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. Addressing the four main subject areas (language arts, math, science, and social studies) and the major concepts taught within these areas, these books provide a number of different types of…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Individualized Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
Westphal, Laurie E. – Prufrock Press Inc, 2007
"Differentiating Instruction With Menus Grades 3-5" offers teachers everything they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. Addressing the four main subject areas (language arts, math, science, and social studies) and the major concepts taught within these areas, these books provide a number of different types of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
Westphal, Laurie E. – Prufrock Press Inc, 2007
"Differentiating Instruction With Menus Grades 3-5" offers teachers everything they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. Addressing the four main subject areas (language arts, math, science, and social studies) and the major concepts taught within these areas, these books provide a number of different types of…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Individualized Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
Westphal, Laurie E. – Prufrock Press Inc, 2007
"Differentiating Instruction With Menus Grades 3-5" offers teachers everything they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. Addressing the four main subject areas (language arts, math, science, and social studies) and the major concepts taught within these areas, these books provide a number of different types of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts, Probability
Corwin Press, 2004
Thomas R. Guskey and Robert J. Marzano bring together leaders in the field of educational assessment to offer a multi-book series with the most up to date standards available. Comprehensive yet accessible. Research-based yet practical. This concise series addresses essential assessment concepts with solutions for today's educational challenges.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Scoring Rubrics, Graduate Students
Wooten, D. E.; Touse, Robert D. – 1984
These two slide scripts, part of a series of slide scripts designed for use in vocational agriculture classes, deal with scaling and grading hardwood logs and lumber. The first script includes narrations for use with 39 slides, which explain the techniques of scaling and grading hardwood logs, and the second script contains the narrations to…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Skills, Classification