Assessments: What Teachers Can Do
Resources and strategies to assist teachers in their understanding and use of assessments. Resources and strategies to assist teachers in their understanding and use of assessments. No No Special...
View ArticleHow Do Rubrics Help?
How students and teachers understand the standards against which work will be measured. How students and teachers understand the standards against which work will be measured, from Edutopia.org's...
View ArticleAssessment Workshop Activities
Hands-on lessons you can adapt for your assessment workshops. Hands-on lessons you can adapt for your assessment workshops, from Edutopia.org's Assessment Professional Development Guide. No No Special...
View ArticleAssessment Tips for Full-Time Learning Programs
What measures do educators and administrators take in evaluating the success of a full-time learning program? What measures do educators and administrators take in evaluating the success of a...
View ArticleLesson Plans and Assessments from YES Prep
Teacher-created classroom resources for a college-prep curriculum. Teacher-created classroom resources for a college-prep curriculum. Published to RSS 2012-08-06 12 No Special Options 5 Schools That...
View ArticleTeachers Should Analyze Student Work Together
When educators look at student work in teams, more impartial grading and better lessons result. In my last post, "How to Make Writing Research Papers Relevant for Students," I described an expository...
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Free Resources and Downloads for Project Learning
Educators from Maine have shared details about their administration, school culture, professional development, and curriculum -- materials you may adapt for your class, school, or school district....
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Downloads and Resources from Forest Lake Elementary
Free tools, reading lists, web links and other resources to help bring differentiated instruction to your school. Free tools, reading lists, web links and other resources to help bring differentiated...
View ArticleFree Resources and Tools for "Authentic" Assessment
New York's School of the Future shares their assessment plans and rubrics, classroom projects, schedules, web links, and other resources to help you implement "authentic" assessment today. New York's...
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Resources and Downloads for Teaching Critical Thinking
Educators from the Bay Area's KIPP King Collegiate High School and the KIPP network have provided these resources for you to use in your own school. Educators from the Bay Area's KIPP King Collegiate...
View ArticleResources for Comprehensive Assessment
Free materials, downloads, and suggested readings to better understand comprehensive assessment. Free materials, downloads, and suggested readings to better understand comprehensive assessment, from...
View ArticleCan Rubrics Inspire?
Through his own entertaining prose, blogger Todd Finley breathes life into the stifling writing rubrics that so often squash student creativity. In a Buick LaCrosse crowded with English teachers on...
View ArticleTame the Beast: Tips for Designing and Using Rubrics
Blogger Andrew Miller shares his experiences and suggestions for creating rubrics that will make students' -- and teachers' -- lives much easier. Rubrics are a beast. Grrrrrrr! They are time-consuming...
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Resources and Tools for PBL Start to Finish
Educators from Manor New Technology High School in Manor, Texas, part of the New Tech Network of schools, have provided these resources and tools for project-based learning. Educators from Manor New...
View ArticleHow Can We Make Assessments Meaningful?
Blogger and middle school teacher Heather Wolpert-Gawron uses the 4 Cs from the Common Core standards to guide her when designing student assessments. I think meaningful assessments can come in many...
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Resources and Downloads for College and Career Readiness
Educators from MC2 STEM High School in Cleveland, Ohio, have provided these resources and tools for integrated project-based learning, real-world experiences, and other strategies to prepare students...
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Integrated Projects = Deeper Learning
Here's how one school designs rigorous projects that blend STEM with other core subjects. See how this strategy might work for you. Here's how one school designs rigorous projects that blend STEM with...
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Getting Specific About Student Success
Edutopia blogger Suzie Boss explores how project-based learning and the use of rubrics can increase a school's academic success. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_marshall/260978898Getting ready for...
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How to Get High-Quality Student Work in PBL
John Larmer, Editor in Chief at the Buck Institute for Education, looks at how to get high-quality work from students engaged in project-based learning....
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Interactive Rubrics as Assessment for Learning
Guest blogger Michelle Lampinen, a digital literacy and English teacher at Biotechnology High School, describes how she reverse-engineered a rubric for student assessment that includes links and QR...
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