1011 Authentic Assessment Toolbox Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–12 Professional Commentary: The Authentic Assessment Toolbox offers detailed information about creating authentic tasks, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning. Author Jon Mueller includes detailed, practical application chapters: (1) What is it?; (2) Why do it?; (3) How do you do it?; (4) Standards; (5) Tasks; (6) Rubrics; (7) Portfolios; (8) Examples; (9) Glossary; and (10) Career Fields: Education & Training, Human Services, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 1012 Teaching the Best Practice Way [excerpt]: Chapter 1, "How to Teach" Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–12 Professional Commentary: In Teaching the Best Practice Way, Harvey Daniels and Marilyn Bizar present seven basic teaching structures that make classrooms more active, experiential, collaborative, democratic, and cognitive, while simultaneously meeting "best practice" standards across subject areas and grades. Each section begins with an essay outlining one key method, providing its historical background and research results, and then... 1013 Put to the Test: Tools and Techniques for Classroom Assessment [excerpt]: Chapter 4, "Guides to Scoring Student Work: Checklists and Rubrics" Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–12 Professional Commentary: Guides to scoring students' work are discussed at length and in concrete detail in this chapter excerpt. Authors Robert Johnson, Susan Agruso, Diane Monrad, and Therese M.... Projects: Writing 6-12 1014 Making Words Stick: Strategies that Build Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension in the Elementary Grades [excerpt]: Chapter 1, "Anchoring Word Knowledge" Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–4 Professional Commentary: This inclusive first chapter, "Anchoring Word Knowledge," emphasizes that students need a more comprehensive, deeper conceptual understanding of words. Author Kellie Buis then details the role that anchored vocabulary instruction plays, pointing out that it assists our students in holding on to this deeper conceptual understanding.... 1015 Characteristics of Successful Literacy Tutoring Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–6 Professional Commentary: In this article, Dorothy Leal outlines the common characteristics of successful reading tutoring programs. Leal identifies these commonalities as: (a) offering many opportunities to read authentic materials, (b) providing many applications of reading integrated with authentic writing experiences, and (c) ensuring highly motivating reading and writing activities related to students' interests and abilities by caring tutors.... 1016 Professional Development Tutorial: Increasing Vocabulary Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–12 Professional Commentary: This tutorial is a sample lesson from a Scholastic professional development session on vocabulary development. It is part of a comprehensive course on how to improve student comprehension.... 1017 PRIME: PRompt Intervention in Mathematics Education Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–12 Professional Commentary: This monograph is a review of research related to early and prompt intervention in mathematics education. The lead chapter urges a shift from the traditional remediation paradigm to a proactive intervention paradigm that assists students before they fail.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 1018 A Friendly, Welcoming Attitude Toward Change Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–12 Professional Commentary: In this professional development article, author Bertram C. Bruce discusses at length the implications for and consequences of change, focusing especially on education and change in technology.... 1019 A Tale of Differences: Comparing the Traditions, Perspectives, and Educational Goals of Critical Reading and Critical Literacy Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–12 Professional Commentary: The authors of this article point out that classroom literacy practices are necessarily grounded in historical and philosophical traditions, and that these traditions provide a lens for distinguishing those practices. Their goal is to examine the assumptions that underlie two pedadogical approaches to literacy--one grounded in liberal humanism, and the other within critical perspectives.... 1020 Bilingual Books: Promoting Literacy and Biliteracy in the Second-Language and Mainstream Classroom Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–3 Professional Commentary: This article discusses the benefits of and strategies for using bilingual books in mainstream classrooms and in classrooms where English is taught as a second language. The article begins with a brief discussion about literacy and biliteracy that underscores the importance of supporting and nurturing literacy in the first language as a vehicle to developing literacy in English.... |