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

• Autore: Benson Barbara (Barbara P.)
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.102
• Soggetto topico: Effective teaching - United States; Education - Standards - United States; Educational tests and measurements - United States
• 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 Donâ€?t Always Match the Standards, Why Do We Have Them?""""Teach Past the Tests to the Standards""; ""Donâ€?t Ignore the Tests, But Donâ€?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.
• Titolo autorizzato: How to meet standards, motivate students, and still enjoy teaching
• ISBN: 1-4522-9592-1; 1-4522-9869-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814274603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II