How to Meet Standards, Motivate Students, and Still Enjoy Teaching!
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"This is a must-read for all of the practitioners who do not want to 'teach to the test.' The book offers a sure-fire way to create lifelong learners who are motivated to come to school and who enjoy being part of an energized community."
—Joan E. Anderson, Reading Instructor
Oakridge Middle School, Naples, FL
"If teachers ever wondered how to integrate standards, high-stakes testing, and student learning, they need wonder no more. This book has something for everyone."
—Randy Cook, Chemistry and Physics Teacher
Tri County High School, Morley, MI
Apply user-friendly tools to create a stimulating environment for student growth while implementing standards!
How can teachers successfully create a standards-based classroom that meets accountability requirements and also provide a learning environment where both teachers and students can thrive? This book gives teachers ways to flourish in their profession as they engage students, increase their self-confidence, and inspire a lifelong love of learning.
The second edition of How to Meet Standards, Motivate Students, and Still Enjoy Teaching! offers a productive way of approaching standards and a framework for classroom practice to give all students the opportunity to succeed. The author demonstrates how teachers can follow a standards-based curriculum while:
- Creating a community of learners who are self-directed, interactive, cooperative, and focused on quality
- Making reflection a routine for both teachers and students
- Teaching content and process
- Developing more authentic student tasks and assessment methods
With updated references and new reproducibles for immediate use, this invaluable resource helps teachers maintain creativity and fun in the classroom while focusing on standards and building learners' academic skills.
Contents
Foreword to the First Edition by Spence Rogers
Foreword to the First Edition by Spence Rogers
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
Introduction: Focusing on Standards in the Classroom
- A Positive View of Standards
- Taking a Big-Picture Look at Standards
- Standards and the Classroom
- Four Practices That Meet Standards and Motivate Students
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
1. Creating a Community of Learners
- Why Do I Need a Community of Learners in My Classroom?
- Help Students Become Self-Directed Learners
- Have an Interactive Classroom
- Helping Students Work Cooperatively
- A Quality Focus
- The Community of Learners, a Final View
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
2. Making Reflection Routine
- Teacher Reflection
- Student Reflection
- Concluding Reflection
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
3. Teaching Content and Process
- The Learner Actions
- Using the Learner Actions to Meet Standards
- Analyzing Lessons to See Who Is Doing All the Work
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
4. Developing More Authentic Tasks and Assessments
- What Type of Work Should Students Be Doing?
- Performance Tasks
- Assessment and Evaluation
- Assessing and Evaluating Performance Tasks
- Tasks and Assessment: Final Thoughts
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
Conclusion: Integrating the Four Practices and High-Stakes Tests
- What About the Tests?
- Three Approaches for Implementing the Standards-Based Classroom Practices
- Final Thoughts
Resources A: Reproducible Forms
Resources A: Reproducible Forms
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"This is a must-read for all of the practitioners who do not want to 'teach to the test.' The book offers a sure-fire way to create lifelong learners who are motivated to come to school and who enjoy being part of an energized community."
—Joan E. Anderson, Reading Instructor
Oakridge Middle School, Naples, FL
"If teachers ever wondered how to integrate standards, high-stakes testing, and student learning, they need wonder no more. This book has something for everyone."
—Randy Cook, Chemistry and Physics Teacher
Tri County High School, Morley, MI
Apply user-friendly tools to create a stimulating environment for student growth while implementing standards!
How can teachers successfully create a standards-based classroom that meets accountability requirements and also provide a learning environment where both teachers and students can thrive? This book gives teachers ways to flourish in their profession as they engage students, increase their self-confidence, and inspire a lifelong love of learning.
The second edition of How to Meet Standards, Motivate Students, and Still Enjoy Teaching! offers a productive way of approaching standards and a framework for classroom practice to give all students the opportunity to succeed. The author demonstrates how teachers can follow a standards-based curriculum while:
- Creating a community of learners who are self-directed, interactive, cooperative, and focused on quality
- Making reflection a routine for both teachers and students
- Teaching content and process
- Developing more authentic student tasks and assessment methods
With updated references and new reproducibles for immediate use, this invaluable resource helps teachers maintain creativity and fun in the classroom while focusing on standards and building learners' academic skills.
Contents
Foreword to the First Edition by Spence Rogers
Foreword to the First Edition by Spence Rogers
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
Introduction: Focusing on Standards in the Classroom
- A Positive View of Standards
- Taking a Big-Picture Look at Standards
- Standards and the Classroom
- Four Practices That Meet Standards and Motivate Students
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
1. Creating a Community of Learners
- Why Do I Need a Community of Learners in My Classroom?
- Help Students Become Self-Directed Learners
- Have an Interactive Classroom
- Helping Students Work Cooperatively
- A Quality Focus
- The Community of Learners, a Final View
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
2. Making Reflection Routine
- Teacher Reflection
- Student Reflection
- Concluding Reflection
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
3. Teaching Content and Process
- The Learner Actions
- Using the Learner Actions to Meet Standards
- Analyzing Lessons to See Who Is Doing All the Work
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
4. Developing More Authentic Tasks and Assessments
- What Type of Work Should Students Be Doing?
- Performance Tasks
- Assessment and Evaluation
- Assessing and Evaluating Performance Tasks
- Tasks and Assessment: Final Thoughts
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
Conclusion: Integrating the Four Practices and High-Stakes Tests
- What About the Tests?
- Three Approaches for Implementing the Standards-Based Classroom Practices
- Final Thoughts
Resources A: Reproducible Forms
Resources A: Reproducible Forms
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
How to Meet Standards, Motivate Students, and Still Enjoy Teaching!
Four Practices That Improve Student Learning
August 2008 | 208 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 27/02/2023 | 9781412963664 | $83.95 |
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9781412963671 | $42.95 |
| Lifetime | 27/02/2023 | 9781452295923 | $39.00 |
"This is a must-read for all of the practitioners who do not want to 'teach to the test.' The book offers a sure-fire way to create lifelong learners who are motivated to come to school and who enjoy being part of an energized community."
—Joan E. Anderson, Reading Instructor
Oakridge Middle School, Naples, FL
"If teachers ever wondered how to integrate standards, high-stakes testing, and student learning, they need wonder no more. This book has something for everyone."
—Randy Cook, Chemistry and Physics Teacher
Tri County High School, Morley, MI
Apply user-friendly tools to create a stimulating environment for student growth while implementing standards!
How can teachers successfully create a standards-based classroom that meets accountability requirements and also provide a learning environment where both teachers and students can thrive? This book gives teachers ways to flourish in their profession as they engage students, increase their self-confidence, and inspire a lifelong love of learning.
The second edition of How to Meet Standards, Motivate Students, and Still Enjoy Teaching! offers a productive way of approaching standards and a framework for classroom practice to give all students the opportunity to succeed. The author demonstrates how teachers can follow a standards-based curriculum while:
- Creating a community of learners who are self-directed, interactive, cooperative, and focused on quality
- Making reflection a routine for both teachers and students
- Teaching content and process
- Developing more authentic student tasks and assessment methods
With updated references and new reproducibles for immediate use, this invaluable resource helps teachers maintain creativity and fun in the classroom while focusing on standards and building learners' academic skills.
Table Of Contents:
- Foreword to the First Edition by Spence Rogers
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction: Focusing on Standards in the Classroom
- A Positive View of Standards
- Taking a Big-Picture Look at Standards
- Standards and the Classroom
- Four Practices That Meet Standards and Motivate Students
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
- 1. Creating a Community of Learners
- Why Do I Need a Community of Learners in My Classroom?
- Help Students Become Self-Directed Learners
- Have an Interactive Classroom
- Helping Students Work Cooperatively
- A Quality Focus
- The Community of Learners, a Final View
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
- 2. Making Reflection Routine
- Teacher Reflection
- Student Reflection
- Concluding Reflection
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
- 3. Teaching Content and Process
- The Learner Actions
- Using the Learner Actions to Meet Standards
- Analyzing Lessons to See Who Is Doing All the Work
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
- 4. Developing More Authentic Tasks and Assessments
- What Type of Work Should Students Be Doing?
- Performance Tasks
- Assessment and Evaluation
- Assessing and Evaluating Performance Tasks
- Tasks and Assessment: Final Thoughts
- Ideas for Teachers
- Ideas for Administrators
- Conclusion: Integrating the Four Practices and High-Stakes Tests
- What About the Tests?
- Three Approaches for Implementing the Standards-Based Classroom Practices
- Final Thoughts
- Resources A: Reproducible Forms
- References
- Index