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Challenge traditional grading practices and adopt a new, more effective grading model for students that will close the gaps in student achievement and content mastery. This book provides the pathway for implementing evidence-based grading practices in schools through a straightforward, five-phase creative model: (1) preparation, (2) incubation, (3) insight, (4) evaluation, and (5) elaboration. Readers will follow a hypothetical curriculum team’s journey through each phase of this process.
Benefits
Confront ineffective grading practices and then overcome traditional biases to apply better grading practices.Reflect on the effectiveness of revisions and improve newly revised grading methods.Give students meaningful information about their progress toward learning targets and expectations.Identify the concepts and perspectives to which curriculum team members must commit to successfully adopt evidence-based grading practices.Discover the important relationships between learning targets and grading, feedback and instruction, assessment and grading, and gradebooks and learning.Contents
About the Author
Introduction
1 Preparation
2 Incubation
3 Insight
4 Evaluation
5 Elaboration
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index
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Strengthen science education practice based on Robert J. Marzano’s instructional framework, the New Art and Science of Teaching. Readers will learn 10 design areas within the categories of feedback, content, and context; examine proven instructional elements embedded in the framework; and gain strategies for improving teacher effectiveness and collaboration in the science classroom. Driven by data, this book positions teachers to nurture student success.
Teacher leaders can unite their teams to:Understand the New Art and Science of Teaching model as it applies to science instructionLearn to engage and motivate students through a wide variety of instructional strategiesBetter utilize formal and informal assessmentsImprove the organization and layout of the classroom to facilitate student growthUnderstand how to implement the various guiding questions for curriculum design to best plan classroom strategiesContents:IntroductionPart I: FeedbackChapter 1: Providing and Communicating Clear Learning GoalsChapter 2: Using AssessmentsPart II: ContentChapter 3: Conducting Direct Instruction LessonsChapter 4: Conducting Practicing and Deepening LessonsChapter 5: Conducting Knowledge Application LessonsChapter 6: Using Strategies That Appear in All Types of LessonsPart III: ContextChapter 7: Using Engagement StrategiesChapter 8: Implementing Rules and Procedures and Building RelationshipsChapter 9: Developing ExpertiseAfterwordAppendix A: The New Art and Science of Teaching Framework OverviewAppendix B: List of Figures and TablesReferences and ResourcesIndex
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Only by shifting away from a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and learning can every student achieve true success in the classroom. In this resource, authors Eric Twadell, Mark Onuscheck, Anthony R. Reibel, and Troy Gobble provide educators with a comprehensive strategy implementation process for proficiency-based instruction. Readers will gain a clear five-step process for seamlessly transitioning to a new, improved model of instruction in which individual student self-efficacy and growth come first.
Transition to a proficiency-based instruction model for student success:
Learn the benefits of switching from traditional instruction to proficiency-based instruction (also known as evidence-based grading).Explore the process, concepts, and supporting pedagogy of proficiency-based instruction and curriculum planning.Acquire a five-step implementation strategy: (1) preparation, (2) incubation, (3) insight, (4) evaluation, and (5) elaboration.Gain change-management tools for carrying out each of the five steps as a collaborative team and onboarding all stakeholders in curriculum implementation.Discover how one collaborative team successfully worked together to implement proficiency-based instruction.Access free online reproducibles that will support your shift to proficiency-based instruction and lesson planning.Contents:About the AuthorsIntroductionChapter 1: The Foundation of Proficiency-Based Instruction: Five Stages of the Creative ProcessChapter 2: PreparationChapter 3: IncubationChapter 4: InsightChapter 5: EvaluationChapter 6: ElaborationChapter 7: Examples of the Proficiency-Based Instructional DiamondChapter 8: Tools for Proficiency-Based Instruction
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Becoming a PLC is no small feat—it requires years of collaboration and commitment. In this powerful guide, discover ten evidence-based actions to help move your school teams beyond “PLC Lite,” and center student agency and efficacy in curriculum, assessment, instruction, and intervention practices. Access sample rubrics, protocols, and templates designed to build a culture of continuous improvement.
This book will help K–12 educators: Learn the ten essential actions to elevate their PLC to the next levelEncourage meaningful student participation through the gradual release of responsibility modelUnderstand how to evaluate diverse student feedbackDesign curriculum and assessments centered on student agency and well-beingWork with the four critical questions of interventionExplore how the three big ideas of a PLC intersect at the teacher, student, and school levelsContents:
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