Educators, as they teach to an increasingly diverse population, need a guide to designing and implementing responsive curricula. This book is built around the lessons of classroom teachers and provides the how of instruction design. The first section identifies the most important components of design: addressing standards, designing multiple assessments, identifying richly detailed source materials, and creating interrelated lessons and culminating activities. Section two expands on the needs of diverse learners, and the concluding section contains a completed instructional plan, adaptable to...

Find out how matching research-based principles of collaborative learning with practical action can make all group work productive group work--with all students engaged, building social skills, expanding one anothers understanding, and increasing their readiness for independent learning.

Winner of a 2012 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers Join Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher as they outline a clear-cut, realistic, and rewarding approach to formative assessment. They explain how four discrete steps work in tandem to create a seamless, comprehensive formative assessment system one that has no beginning and no end. This ongoing approach enhances an active give-and-take relationship between teachers and students to promote learning.