How to Evaluate Your Middle School
Author: Sandra L. Schurr
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A step-by-step guide to conducting a meaningful assessment of a middle level program.
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Middle School/junior High School Evaluative Criteria
Author: National Study of School Evaluation
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the result of a major effort by the National Study of School Evaluation to develop and publish evaluative materials for middle schools and junior high schools. The 'Manual' describes the organization of the evaluation, and provides directions for its use in the evaluative process. Guidelines for conducting the self-evaluation by individual schools and the evaluation by a visiting committee are presented with the full understanding that procedures may vary from state to state and region to region.
How to Evaluate Your Middle School
Point-Less
Author: Sarah M Zerwin
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780325109510
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An exploration of moving away from traditional letter or number grades as an assessment and as a result producing more thoughtful students whose learning is more authentic"--
See Me After Class
Author: Roxanna Elden
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1402297076
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Most Dog-Eared "Teacher's Edition" You'll Have in Your Classroom Teaching is tough. And teachers, like the rest of the population, aren't perfect. Yet good teaching happens, and great teachers continue to inspire and educate generations of students. See Me After Class helps those great teachers of the future to survive the classroom long enough to become great. Fueled by hundreds of hilarious—and sometimes shocking—tales from the teachers who lived them, Elden provides tips and strategies that deal head-on with the challenges that aren't covered in new-teacher training. Lessons can go wrong. Parents may yell at you. Sunday evenings will sometimes be accompanied by the dreaded countdown to Monday morning. As a veteran teacher, Elden offers funny, practical, and honest advice, to help teachers walk through the doors of their classrooms day after day with clarity, confidence...and sanity! "A useful, empathetic guide to weathering the first-year lumps...a frothy, satisfying Guinness for the teacher's soul."—Dan Brown, NBCT, Director of the Future Educators Association, and author of The Great Expectations School "See Me After Class is a must-have book for any teacher's bookshelf. On second thought, you'll probably want to keep it on your classroom desk since you'll use it so much!"—Larry Ferlazzo, teacher and author of Helping Students Motivate Themselves "This is the kind of no-nonsense straight talk that teachers are starved for, but too rarely get...Roxanna Elden tells it like it is, with a heavy dose of practicality, a dash of cynicism, a raft of constructive suggestions, and plenty of wry humor."—Rick Hess, Director of Education Policy Studies at AEI, author of Education Week blog, "Rich Hess Straight Up"
The Classroom Management Book
Author: Harry K. Wong
Publisher: Harry K. Wong Publications
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780976423393
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a solutions book that shows how to organize and structure a classroom to create a safe and positive environment for student learning and achievement to take place. It offers 50 classroom procedures that can be applied, changed, adapted, into classroom routines for any classroom management plan at any grade level. Each procedure is presented with a consistent format that breaks it down and tells how to teach it and what the outcome of teaching it will be. While all of the work and preparation behind a well-managed classroom are rarely observed, the dividends are evident in a classroom that is less stressful for all and one that hums with learning. The information is supplemented with 40 QR Codes that take the learning beyond the basic text. As the companion book to THE First Days of School, it takes one of the three characteristics of an effective teacher, being an extremely good classroom manager, and shows how to put it into practice in the classroom. It will show you how to manage your classroom step by step. THE Classroom Management Book will help you prevent classroom discipline problems and help you create an atmosphere where everyone knows what to do--even when you are not in the classroom! 320-page book with Index 50 step-by-step Procedures 40 QR Codes for extended learning
The Knowledge Gap
Author: Natalie Wexler
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0735213569
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was talking about: the elementary school curriculum's intense focus on decontextualized reading comprehension "skills" at the expense of actual knowledge. In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system--one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware. But The Knowledge Gap isn't just a story of what schools have gotten so wrong--it also follows innovative educators who are in the process of shedding their deeply ingrained habits, and describes the rewards that have come along: students who are not only excited to learn but are also acquiring the knowledge and vocabulary that will enable them to succeed. If we truly want to fix our education system and unlock the potential of our neediest children, we have no choice but to pay attention.
Conducting Action Research to Evaluate Your School Library
Author: Judith Anne Sykes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2013-05-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How should teacher librarians or instructional leaders engage in action research to improve their school library and benefit students' learning? This book provides the answers. Teacher librarians need to get directly involved with the research process in the learning commons in order to create actions and strategies that will enhance student learning—and benefit their own professional development as well as demonstrate accountability through their action research efforts. This book provides practical tips and work spaces for educators at the local, state, and national levels, clearly modeling and explaining the process and the tools for conducting action research in a school library setting that will identify the program's strengths and weaknesses. The author coalesces current expert opinions on the topic of action research in the school library environment and highlighting what other teacher librarians in the field have identified as the pros and cons of using the process. Readers are directed to focus on mitigating the "cons" through the use of specific working pages and templates and by initially exploring "five favorite" links, thereby encouraging those who are new to action research to try what might otherwise seem a daunting process. School principals K–12 who read this book will be better equipped to support their teacher librarians and teachers in this important professional process.
Performance-based Assessment for Middle and High School Physical Education
Author: Jacalyn Lea Lund
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 073608360X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Performance-Based Assessment for Middle and High School Physical Education, Second Edition, breaks down the complex topic of assessments and shows you how to develop assessments that will help you and your students work together to enhance the instructional process in physical education. The authors describe the various types of performance-based assessments and show how to integrate assessments into fitness education and physical education, using numerous models that can be adapted to your own situation. The authors provide a wealth of tools for assessing students according to local, state, and NASPE standards while helping students reach their goals. The text is supported by a Web site that includes a test package, a presentation package with PowerPoint slides, an instructor guide, and a CD-ROM that includes additional forms and assessments.
Assessing Excellence
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume is the third in a projected six-volume series called "Agenda for Excellence at the Mid-Level." It describes a process that school administrators can use to conceptualize, plan, execute, and utilize the results of a school assessment, allowing them to take a snapshot of their school. It outlines a set of alternative procedures to be used to assess the middle-level school so that judgments can be made about the way the school is operating and whether it is achieving desired outcomes. The text proposes a process not only for conducting the assessment, but for making judgments about the findings and turning those judgments into action plans. The process itself is designed to make use of existing, internal resources and does not require, or even recommend, the use of external systems or consultants. It outlines the purposes of evaluation and describes an evaluation model, providing an example of that model. It looks at prepared evaluation systems and provides insights on data analysis and interpretation. It shows how to make use of questions and analytical frameworks and how to deal with unanticipated findings. It also discusses recommendations to make following the evaluation, notes on disseminating the results, and pitfalls to avoid. (RJM)
