Does anybody have any good resources for assessment for learning in the classroom? I have an assignment due in soon and would like some good journals to read on the subject. Any help gratefully received.
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search on yahoo.com and look in your local library
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My goodness!  The SRA reading kits!  I loved them as a student - but that wasn't yesterday.  I have retired from a teaching career.  I remember how disappointed I would be if our teacher skipped SRA time!!  And at the end of the year I had progressed to the second last color - I think it was blue - I had really hoped to get to the top!! \n\nI did use a more updated version many years ago with third and fourth graders and some of them thought they were ok, while others detested them.  However,  I think they will be a good resource for students who are independent learners, and who like that sort of thing.  Many kids get a kick out of using the kinds of things their parents might have used.  Many kids enjoy the fact that they are self-directed, and that they can progress at their own rate.  For kids who don't like to do a lot of reading at one sitting, the stories are fairly short.  The speed with which kids can progress can be very enhancing to their self esteem and self confidence.  Students score their own work, which many like to do. \n\nThey can be a very good support to you in designing individualized materials as you need them, and possibly in setting up centers in your class if you use centers.  As others have indicated, they are sequential, so you can easily use them for ideas for activities and topics. Use them to design cloze precedures for example.  Write your own more indepth exercises if you need them.  Use the stories as a jumping off place for students to do more in depth research of a topic.\n\nYou can sign up for a free on-line monthly newsletter about the SRA labs at the link I've included.  New, much more colorful editions of the labs are available.\n\nBest of luck with it.  Pretty much anything kids will read is a good resource.
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http://www.assessment.com/\n\nThese are very good assessments.
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Why do you want other people to do your homework for you. Instead of getting on here and trying to get other people to do your speech, why don't you use the internet to look stuff up?? I mean come on, how lazy can you be?
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Oh you naughty boy...I AM going to tell your teacher. If you don't learn to do your own work you will never amount to anything. \n\nYahoo!Answers is about helping with simple questions...Not for you to submit your homework online!
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Despite about 25 minutes of searching I haven't been able to find this poem.  Could you call or e-mail someone you know who has to do the same assignment and possibly get the poem that way?  \n\nThese sites may be of some help to you.  My only other advice would be to get to a bookstore in your area if there is one and you might find it there.  Best of luck with it.
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Im asking questions for help with my homework(controversial song).  while Im waiting for answers Im reading my chapter for the same class (media and politics) and taking notes on it! FUN!!!!
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I too am a chronic procrastinator, and like you, a straight-A student (even through graduate school :) but I do have a story that may scare you a bit. It's the only F I ever got in a total of 20 years of school! I was in 6th grade and lived in a rural community, in a house in the woods. Our assignment was to do a leaf collection with 50 pressed and mounted leaves, scientifically named and categorized. I knew the names of most trees in the area, and was fairly interested in botany, but could care less about doing the project, so I set it aside. On the night before it was due, I wandered through the woods, carelessly plucking leaves, and stacked them into a large encyclopedia to dry a bit. I managed to find 40 different leaves, but they didn't have time to press, so I ironed them (BIG mistake) then ended up gluing them onto typing paper, and writing the scientific names with a marker, and putting them in a folder. It was awful, and I knew it. Other students (like C students!!!) brought in beautiful keepsake-type albums...I sneaked up and slid mine on the bottom. The next day the teacher talked about the projects, and held up mine as a NON-example. I'm sure I was scarlet but no one guessed that shabby work was mine!!! The teacher looked at me with a you-ought-to-be-ashamed-of-yourself stare and my heart sank to the floor. I will never forget that blazing red F on the paper. It was horrible! I never let that happen again!!! Good luck and get it done!!!! :)
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Try reviewing your class notes and looking through your text book. Im sure that the answer you need is there. It might take a bit of thought to figure out how to do these problems! Take the time to figure it out, it will be worth it in the long run!
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I'm not a teacher, but I went to our school district's web site and found this information for our local schools as well as learning tools, e-learning, policies, procedures & bylaws, info about each of the schools and their programs, and some cool links for school-age children\n\nYou might also try contacting your local board of ed. or attending PTA meetings
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I'm not sure how long this report should be or in what format it is to be presented, but I had to do something similar for grad school when I was getting my masters in Social Studies Education. Personally, I observed a teacher who I found to be scatterbrained and not that effective in the classroom, so I actually made a T-chart of what I saw "Mr. K" do and how I would change or adapt that for my own classroom. I also  would write up a general overview of the grade level, subject, & lesson that you observed. What was the topic taught? How did this topic fit into a larger unit? How can you adopt and/or adapt the teacher's methods and learning tools for your own future students? You can do a powerpoint if it is a visual presentation with some info on the school in which you observed, the class you observed, the teacher you observed, the lesson you observed, then your own insight into how to adapt, enhance or adopt that lesson.\n\nThat's my advice!\n\nGood luck.
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DIfferentiate your instruction.  Check out the books by Carol Tomlinson on the subject.  You need to design lessons that allow for the content, format and assessment to be adapted to the needs of individual students.  Specific strategies depend a lot on which subjects you're teaching.\n\nBe sure to avoid seperating students by ability level.
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I'm not sure, but why don't you include a quote from the teacher or the book using these terms?  I'm sure putting them in context would help with identifying them.
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Check out www.ClassTopic.com   They have some great topics that I've used in the past.  Each topic has three good sources to get you started on the research, too.
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Consult your text book, or better yet your teaching assistant or professor. They need to know that you aren't learning this stuff in class and find out why. (Are their lectures bad, etc?)
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Sorry, honey, but judging on how you wrote this question, you need some quality time in English class. TV can't teach you a lot of things, including how to write. Learning should not be a passive activity, the way watching TV is. You need to be able to discuss, debate, ask questions. Instead of resenting school, try to be more engaged in your classes. Don't think "I'm never going to need to know this" because in truth you don't really know what you are going to need to know if the future. Yeah, I know some of the teachers are boring and unfair, but not all of them. Anyway, isn't school almost over for this year?
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As a teacher, just hearing that book title makes me feel ill-at-ease.  Sounds a bit too touchy-feely for the real world you'll be soon encountering.  No, I've never read your particular book.  But I recommend the book below; although ambitiously overpriced, it's interesting and gives you plenty to think about and consider for adaptation in your own classroom.  I believe it is thus worth what you'll pay.