How can busy teachers successfully manage the complex task of assessing their students' reading comprehension? This invaluable book--the first stand-alone guide on the topic--presents reliable, research-supported guidelines and procedures for K-6 teachers to use in the classroom. Through practical tips and realistic examples, the book demonstrates time-saving ways to implement and adapt a wide range of existing assessments, rather than creating new ones. Also covered: strategies for conducting multiliteracy assessments, using classroom assessment to complement standardized testing and more.
We all know that kids like video games, so why not help them learn course content in these virtual worlds? This guidebook will help teachers (grades 6–12) do exactly that. The authors provide a diverse collection of lively and engaging virtual spaces where students engage in role-based learning. The context might be a gigantic imaginary plant cell, where students learn the role of a biologist, or it might be a shallow valley where they learn to act like a geologist.
Teacher development may be seen as socially constructed. Teachers tend to grow along similar lines, as developmental stage theory suggests, but this growth and development reflect the powerful force of schools as agencies of socialization. So potent is the process of socialization that the effects of teacher preparation tend to be washed out when neophyte teachers enter the school.
Developing English Competencies for Grade XII of Natural and Social Science Programmes comprises 5 chapters and 2 reviews. Each chapter consists four language skills, i.e. Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. It is designed to facilitate you, students of senior high school (SMA/MA), to communicate in English according to the context of the language use and enables you to access information of various fields of science to prepare you to go to university. It is based on literacy based approach so you can get many learning experiences by considering the aspects of interpretation, convention, collaboration, cultural knowledge, problem solving, reflection and language use.
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