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- Listening while you work: Using informal assessments to inform your instruction
- In The First Year, page 2.2
- Ongoing classroom assessment can be informal, but it provides invaluable information about what students are actually learning.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Making connections between concepts
- In The First Year, page 2.3
- To help students connect what they're learning, make your expectations clear and ask them what they understand and what isn't working.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- They're all on the same page...and I'm grading page 1 of 700
- In The First Year, page 2.10
- Plan your classes to make your own work manageable.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Reading for relevance in literature
- A unit-length instructional plan for using graphic organizers to promote active reading of novels, using The Count of Monte Cristo as an example.
- By Suzanne Micallef.
- High school history and English: Natural partners
- In Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide, page 1
- Strategically plan a collaborative unit and overcome those everyday obstacles that prevent success. While this article focuses specifically on English-history collaboration, there is much to kindle the interest of any high school teachers.
- By Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., and NBCT.
- Caucusing in the middle school classroom
- In Arts of persuasion, page 1
- Caucusing enables students to practice the elements of responsible citizenship, including persuasive writing and speaking.
- By Pamela Myrick and Sharon Pearson.
- Debates in the middle school classroom
- In Arts of persuasion, page 2
- A plan for staging a debate, including choosing a topic, "debate do's," and assessment.
- By Pamela Myrick and Sharon Pearson.
- Assessing the learning process
- In Math for multiple intelligences, page 3
- Assessment, like instruction, needs to be geared toward various learning styles, and teachers can create rubrics for ongoing assessment that keep a formal daily record of what students are learning.
- By Gretchen Buher and David Walbert.
- Evaluating multimedia presentations
- A PowerPoint presentation is just another form of communication, and the same rules apply to multimedia that apply to writing or verbal communication. This article offers guidelines for using and assigning multimedia presentations in the classroom and includes a rubric based on the Five Features of Effective Writing.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Making small groups work
- In Math for multiple intelligences, page 2
- For students to work effectively in small groups, a teacher needs not only to set rules but to build a sense of community and teamwork within the basic structure the rules provide.
- By Gretchen Buher.As told to David Walbert.
- Choosing books that are just right
- This teacher research study examines how students select books for independent reading and how teachers can help them make choices more appropriate to their reading levels.
- By Melinda Parks.
- Ongoing assessment strategies for writing
- Making final assessment easier by helping students improve the quality of their writing along the way.
- By Sherri Phillips Merrit.
- Writing and English as a Second Language
- Strategies for helping English Language Learners throughout the writing process.
- By Frances Hoch.
- Reading is for the boys (and girls)!
- This WebQuest for teachers looks at the difficult issue of how to get — and keep — boys interested in reading. It guides you through the research, then looks at text selection and pedagogy and helps you find specific strategies for narrowing the adolescent "literacy gap."
- Format: article
- By Kimberly Bowen.
- Analyzing the miscues
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 2.5
- Miscue analysis is more concerned with the types or levels of miscues made rather than the actual quantity of miscues. After the reading session has ended and the student has completed a retelling of the story, the miscues that have been recorded on the typescript...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- Further reading
- In The five features of effective writing, page 7
- An annotated bibliography on the Features of Effective Writing.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- Teaching the features of effective writing
- In The five features of effective writing, page 1
- By organizing your instruction around focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions, you can help students become more effective writers and make your own job easier.
- Format: article
- By Kim Bowen and Kathleen Cali.
- Live-at-Home in North Carolina
- In this lesson students will examine pictures and documents relating to the Live at Home program started in North Carolina by Governor O. Max Gardner to help North Carolina farmers refocus on food crops rather than cash crops during the Depression. These photographs, from the Green 'N' Growing collection at the North Carolina State University, will help students draw conclusions about the culture of North Carolina in the early 1930s and understand how they overcame the hardships of the Depression.
- Format: article (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Loretta Wilson.
- Working together to get writing right
- Philosophical and practical reasons to support writing across the curriculum in high schools. A WebQuest for teachers.
- Format: article
- By Kim Bowen.
- Practice story
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 2.7
- The following story is the first chapter of a text entitled Isabelefant, a Fourth Grade Friend. The chapter is provided both in its authentic format, the format a reader would encounter, and as a typescript with numbered sentences...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
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