Assessment Live!: 10 Real-Time Ways for Kids to Show What They Know--and Meet the Standards
"Traditional assessments often reveal very little about students' thinking. Nancy describes how activities that engage students in complex, multifaceted demonstrations of learning can transfer the responsibility to students to reveal the quality of their thinking while seamlessly helping them learn the content more deeply and lastingly." -Ellin Oliver Keene\ "There's an old saying that school is a place where young people go to watch old people work. Live assessments offer us a way to turn...
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Acclaimed author and educator Nancy Steineke offers the definitive how-to handbook for implementing highly structured and productive assessment activities. Building on her 32 years of classroom experience, Nancy shows teachers how to balance their approach to assessment and easily incorporate performance projects into their curriculum. After chronicling the research and rationale behind live assessments, Nancy describes strategies that teachers can use to foster a supportive classroom culture where assessment activities and presentation skills flourish. The chapters that follow outline ten specific live assessments that can be used to personalize learning and help your students show what they know. Each chapter presents:the rationale for the activity lists of the reading, writing, and speaking/listening standards skills students will apply step-by-step support including samples of student work, tips for troubleshooting predictable problems, and strategies for adapting and modifying activities rubrics, scoring sheets, and other reproducibles for students Use Assessment Live! and find out what your students really know.
Foreword viiAcknowledgments xiPart I Getting Started 11 The Lively Art of Assessment 22 Getting Kids Ready to Go Live: Strategies for Building Confidence and Performance Skills 19Part II Structures for Live Assessment 473 Academic Controversy 484 Book Buddy PowerPoint 685 Found Poetry 896 PostSecret Project 1057 Readers Theatre 1168 Tableaux 1309 Talk Show 14210 Storytelling 15811 Songs That Make Ideas Stick 17612 Performing a Scene: The Ultimate Assessment 198Study Guide 221Bibliography 238
