So What Do They Really Know?: Assessment That Informs Teaching and Learning

ISBN-13: 9781571107305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 184 str.

Cris Tovani

Opis

In So What Do They Really Know? Cris Tovani explores the complex issue of monitoring, assessing, and grading students' thinking and performance with fairness and fidelity. Like all teachers, Cris struggles to balance her student-centered instruction with school system mandates. Her recommendations are realistic and practical; she understands that what isn't manageable isn't sustainable.Cris describes the systems and structure she uses in her own classroom and shows teachers how to use assessments to monitor student growth and provide targeted feedback that enables students to master content goals. She also shares ways to bring students into the assessment cycle so they can monitor their own learning, maximizing motivation and engagement.So What Do They Really Know? includes a wealth of information:

• Lessons from Cris's classroom
• Templates showing how teachers can use the workshop model to assess and differentiate instruction
• Student work, including samples from linguistically diverse learners, struggling readers, and college-bound seniors
• Anchor charts of student thinking
• Ideas on how to give feedback
• Guidelines that explain how conferring is different from monitoring
• Suggestions for assessing learning and differentiating instruction during conferences
• Advice for managing ongoing assessment

Cris's willingness to share her own struggles continues to be a hallmark of her work. Teachers will recognize their own students and the challenges they face as they join Cris on the journey to figure out how to raise student achievement.

Recenzje

"Tovani provides an extensive list of formative assessment ideas so that teachers can gather a range of data and discover what their students really know." - Professionally Speaking

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Assessment: It Doesn't Have to Be the Enemy; Chapter 2: Let's Get Personal; Chapter 3: Game-Time Assessment; Chapter 4: Off the Field and Into the Classroom; Chapter 5: Annotations: A Trustworthy Source of Data; Chapter 6: Feedback That Fortifies; Chapter 7: Grading Is Killing Me; Coda: Break the Fake

O autorze

Cris T Tovani taught elementary school for ten years before becoming a high school reading specialist and English teacher. In In addition to teaching full-time, full-time, she is a nationally known known consultant focusing on issues of reading and content comprehension in in the high school classroom. Cris has also worked for many years as a staff developer for the Denver-based-based Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC), the consortium that that has received national acclaim for its work in in r reading comprehension reform. She is the author of the book I Read It, It, but I don’t Get It (Stenhouse(Stenhouse 2000).