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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814274603321

Autore

Benson Barbara (Barbara P.)

Titolo

How to meet standards, motivate students, and still enjoy teaching! : four practices that improve student learning / / Barbara P. Benson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

1-4522-9592-1

1-4522-9869-6

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

371.102

Soggetti

Effective teaching - United States

Education - Standards - United States

Educational tests and measurements - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

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.