PrefaceChapter 1: What Is Teacher Peer Assistance and Review?Chapter 2: Ten Essential Questions Before You BeginChapter 3: Criteria, Standards, and DataChapter 4: Defining the Roles, Relationships, and Responsibilities of Key PlayersChapter 5: Reporting and Using the ResultsChapter 6: Best PracticesResources ReferencesIndex

This book charts a course for developing and implementing an effective peer assistance and review program based on long-standing, successful programs.

The affective realm is a critical, but often forgotten, aspect of schooling. The development of character and the formation of appropriate learning environments rely to a large extent on understanding the affective nature of students. Even when the focus is on cognitive achievement, affect has a role to play. Teachers frequently mention a lack of motivation as a primary reason for students not achieving as well as they should or as well as their teachers would like.
Despite the importance of affect, educators rarely make an effort to systematically collect and use information about...

The affective realm is a critical, but often forgotten, aspect of schooling. The development of character and the formation of appropriate learning environments rely to a large extent on understanding the affective nature of students. Even when the focus is on cognitive achievement, affect has a role to play. Teachers frequently mention a lack of motivation as a primary reason for students not achieving as well as they should or as well as their teachers would like.
Despite the importance of affect, educators rarely make an effort to systematically collect and use information about...

This book is based on the belief that decision making is perhaps the most critical of all teaching skills and that good assessments lie at the core of good decision making. To become better teachers then, teachers must learn to make informed decisions about both individual students (learning decisions) and about groups of students (teaching decisions). This book gives equal status to both types of decisions and shows how assessment is integral to both.
The organization of the book is sequential, mirroring the way in which information should be used to make decisions. It begins with a...

Charles Bonnet began his career as a naturalist, from an early age establishing a reputation as a careful observer. It is for those youthful observations, as well as for some suggestive speculations proposed relative to this field, that he is best remembered in English-speaking countries: regarding the taxonomic de- mands of natural history he refurbished the idea of a chain of beings; regarding the question of generation he marshaled evidence in support of preforma- tion theory; and regarding the analysis of the physiology of the nervous system he advanced a theory that individual nerve...