Improving Student Learning. One Teacher at a Time

Jane E. Pollock

ISBN 10: 1416605207 / ISBN 13: 9781416605201

Verlag: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,, 2007

Beschreibung

If you?ve ever taught a lesson or run an activity that you thought would teach something or hoped would lead to improved learning, then here's a book that will replace that uncertainty with a clear and confident plan for every class. Jane E. Pollock explains the four critical areas of teaching and describes how you can review your practice and revise what you do to align with a model for success. To execute your plan, the book offers step-by-step instructions that include: * Starting off with a curriculum document that defines your learning targets and explains what students are expected to achieve * Using a 6-step lesson planning process that prepares students, taps their prior knowledge, and cements new ideas and skills * Choosing a set of classroom assessment tasks that yield evidence of learning * Setting up your grade book with benchmarks for scoring student performance rather than using grades or point systems Throughout the book, individual teachers share their experiences with using this approach to increase student success and their own personal satisfaction.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Improving Student Learning. One Teacher at a Time
• Verlag: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1416605207
• ISBN-13: 9781416605201
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

The most important factor affecting student learning isn’t standards, textbooks, or testing--it’s teachers. And when it comes to improving learning, research has shown teachers what works. But the real challenge comes when it’s time to do what works and do it well. In this book, Jane E. Pollock explains how making the right adjustments in four critical areas of practice—curriculum, instruction, assessment, and feedback—can help any teacher improve student learning significantly. Here, you’ll find out how to

• Create a classroom curriculum document that’s truly useful and incorporates robust concepts, generalizations, and procedures.
• Plan instruction that’s focused on helping students become master learners who can apply information and skills, not just do schoolwork.
• Design varied classroom assessments that yield evidence of mastery and pinpoint where further instruction is required.
• Use criterion-based feedback to improve individual student achievement and refine instruction.

Along with step-by-step procedures, practical guidelines, and specific models, this book features the voices of individual teachers who share their experience using the author’s “Big Four” approach. Like them, you may find it’s the missing link you need to transform your pedagogy and achieve unprecedented levels of both student success and professional satisfaction.