Weaving together the latest knowledge and best practices for teaching children to read, this indispensable text and professional resource provides a complete guide to differentiated instruction for diverse learners. Uniquely integrative, the book places the needs of English language learners and students with disabilities front and center instead of treating them as special topics. Accessible chapters on each of the core components of literacy clearly demonstrate how to link formal and informal assessment to evidence-based instruction. Special features include Research Briefs, Tech Tips, Internet Resources, Reflection and Action Questions, and dozens of reproducible student activities and assessment tools.
When teachers get together and apply their combined knowledge and experience to the challenges of teaching and learning, amazing things can happen. In this book, you'll find out how to set up collaborative analysis of student work in your school. Developed and refined with more than 100 elementary and secondary teachers, this adaptable system combines the best of action research, study groups, standards-based learning, student assessment, teacher reflection, and portfolio assessment. The authors guide you through each component with concrete, detailed descriptions and authentic examples.
Dynamic Assessment (DA) reconceptualizes classroom interactions by
arguing that teaching and assessment should not be distinct
undertakings but must be integrated as a single activity that seeks to
understand learner abilities by actively supporting their ongoing
development. DA is based in the Vygotskian notion of the Zone of
Proximal Development (ZPD) which captures the uniquely human potential
to exceed our present capabilities by working in cooperation with
others whose dialogic interaction mediates us to higher levels of
functioning. DA offers a framework for co-constructing a ZPD with
learners in order to simultaneously reveal the full range of their
abilities and promote development.
This book presents the first in-depth analysis of DA’s application
to particular problems of L2 development. It includes detailed
discussions of the core theoretical tenets as well as guidelines for
implementing DA principles in L2 classrooms. The book will be of
interest to language teacher educators, language testers, classroom
practitioners, and students and researchers in the areas of SLA,
language pedagogy, and assessment.
National Univ. of Singapore, China. Provides a reference to common questions about medical student assessment. Topics include purpose driven assessment, key concepts in assessment, special issues in assessment in clinical medicine, objective structured clinical examination, mini clinical evaluation exercise, and more. For medical teachers.
