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- Ongoing assessment for reading
- Ongoing, informal assessment is crucial to teaching reading. Using audio and visual examples, this edition explains the use of running records and miscue analysis, tools that help a teacher to identify patterns in student reading behaviors and the strategies a reader uses to make sense of text.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Running records and you
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.1
- If you teach in North Carolina, you are already "doing" running records. Your school mandates them as a means of assessing student reading. Hopefully you received some training for these assessments, but if your experience was like that of many teachers, you...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- The First Year
- Essays on the author's experiences in her first year of teaching: the mistakes she made, what she learned from them, and how she used them to become a better teacher — and how other first-year teachers can, too.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Formative assessment
- This reference article discusses the history, concept, and application of formative assessment.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- 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.
- 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.
- ABCs by the week
- This is an ongoing series of lessons to teach the 26 letters of the alphabet through functional skills that can be used on a daily/weekly basis building on and transferring to other educational tasks. These lessons incorporate coloring, marking, painting, cutting, pasting, creating, listening and following directions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Karen Dawsey and Sherry Waters.
- Search for synonyms: A thesaurus lesson
- Students will expand their vocabulary and learn the advantages of using a thesaurus. Students will edit and enrich personal writing samples using both print and online thesauri.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Erin Bradfeldt and Joan Milliken.
- 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.
- A million fish... Serving up exaggeration
- Students will become familiar with the term "exaggeration" and how it can be used in stories to catch the reader's attention. Students will create narrative stories of their own using exaggeration.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Jennie McGuire.
- Creating an inclusive environment: Understanding feelings
- The students will learn about feelings and how to get along with others in group situations. Children will discuss what makes a friend, how friends make each other feel, what friends do together and how to resolve differences between friends. They will identify the qualities of friendship.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance and Social Studies)
- By Dianne Prohn.
- Name that tune!
- This is a student/parent assignment. The students will perform selected lines from their band method books, and their parents (or responsible adults) will listen and try to name the tune.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Music Education)
- By Mary Beth Smith.
- Plain Polly: Adding relevant details
- This instructional technique creates a lasting visual image of how relevant details help develop a character and a focus. Students learn to add only details that are related to the main idea of a “Plain Polly” stick figure. These mascots serve as reminders to students to be selective with the details they use to support their main idea.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Tour the United States via HyperStudio Stacks
- Students will combine classroom, library time, and computer lab time to research and construct knowledge about 49 U.S. states. (Students will not research their home state.) Students will use their new research knowledge and the resources provided to construct a HyperStudio stack on their assigned state.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
- By Karl Schaefer.
- You sank my battleship
- Students will learn how to plot ordered pairs using the coordinate plane and determine in which quadrant these ordered pairs lie. Students will show mastery of plotting ordered pairs by playing Battleship. Modifications have been added for Intermediate Low English Language Learners.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 and 9–12 English Language Development and Mathematics)
- By Theadore Taylor and Justine Busto.
- Discovering elements online
- Students will work independently and in small groups to research assigned elements on the internet with sites given in advance. They will then contribute to a class database with their individual information. The database will then be made available for students to again work independently and in pairs to answer questions created from a class discussion to discover relationships about the elements.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Trish Loudermilt.
- Quality standards for online professional development courses
- Standards for curriculum, student assessment, design, management, and evaluation of online courses offered to K–12 teachers, administrators, and support personnel through LEARN NC.
- Format: article/help
- Quality standards for online K–12 courses
- Standards for curriculum, design, student assessment, management, and evaluation in online courses offered to K–12 students through LEARN NC.
- Format: article/help
- Foreshadowing: Quote identification, discovery lesson, and essay prompt analysis
- During the course of this lesson, students identify selected quotes from literary works studied in class. After a brief discussion of what all of the quotes have in common, students will determine that each quote foreshadows an important, upcoming plot development. The class will then examine an essay prompt on foreshadowing, vote on the literary work to be used in planning a response to the prompt, and, as a teacher-led, whole-class activity, come up with a thesis and main point outline for the essay.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Martha Owens.
- Special education in Mexico
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 3.3
- In the 1990s, the inclusive education movement gained ground in Mexico, which resulted in the mainstreaming of special needs students into regular classrooms. The effects of this movement can be seen in the educational policies and services focusing on special needs students in Mexico.
- Format: article
- By Mary Faith Mount-Cors.
