Product Description: This comprehensive professional development package helps teachers build observation checklists, develop unit plans, and design performance tasks and rubrics that address mandated academic standards.Includes: DVD (69 min.), Facilitator's Guide, CD-ROM, Companion Book

Product Description: This third edition covers implementing portfolios that incorporate standards. Includes examples for students with special needs, plus expanded information on e-portfolios and NCLB's impact on assessment.

Offers both new and experienced teachers strategies and techniques to meet the critical challenges to diverse classroom and the unique needs of their students. This book features the theories and research on classroom management, violence prevention, emotional intelligence, inclusion, and cooperative learning.

Product Description: Kay Burke provides a detailed six-step walk-through for creating successful student learning tasks and assessment rubrics linked to state standards and NCLB. A CD-ROM with templates is included.

Product Description: Create assessments that meet state standards and target students’ learning needs! In this revised edition of her bestseller, Kay Burke provides a wide range of easy-to-implement alternative assessments that address today’s accountability requirements...read more

Product Description: Formerly a SkyLight publicationThis second volume of a two-part mentoring guidebook series explores in greater detail the key skills and strategies for successful teaching. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Formerly a SkyLight publicationThe Portfolio Connection offers practical advice and user-friendly strategies for including portfolios in the classroom, with a focus on incorporating standards. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Formerly a SkyLight publication.Let's face it, effective classroom management is the key to a respectful, cooperative learning environment. Tips for Managing Your Classroom, excerpted from What to Do With the Kid Who..., establishes the fundamental ground rules for managing a classroom...read more

The time has come for poor test-takers to realize that the ability to perform well on examinations is not always an accurate assessment of understanding and academic capability. Standardized tests measure one's ability to perform under stress, not one's ability to learn and retain information. As researchers gain new knowledge about how the brain works and how people acquire understanding, educators are expanding their repertoire of assessment tools. And as communities work toward developing mindful schools, they also must reorient their concepts about curriculum, policies, organization of time, and assessment strategies. Performance tasks, portfolio development, and scoring rubrics are just a few of the assessment tools that are now being implemented to measure learning. In this volume, Kay Burke presents a wide range of alternative forms of assessment in a meaningful and practical format. Learning logs, reflective journals, graphic organizers, interviews, and peer editing are only some of the authentic assessments offered in this book which help learners develop lifelong learning and problem-solving skills. Educators, administrators, school psychologists, curriculum planners, and parents. A Skylight Professional Book. (view table of contents)

Remember, a standardized test score is only a `snapshot` of a student on a particular day. A portfolio shows how the student`s work evolves over time. This how-to book details the purposes and types of portfolios, the 10 steps to developing portfolios, practical ideas for implementing portfolios, and lesson options, examples, and suggestions for encouraging creative and critical thinking. (view table of contents)

As an ongoing method of recording accomplishments over a given time period, portfolios are a superb way for education professionals to assess their individual performance and identify growth opportunities for their professional development journey. This book offers inspiring articles that provide answers to frequently asked questions about portfolios and equip readers with ideas for immediate application.

Product Description: Formerly a SkyLight publication.Effective classroom management doesn't just happen. Discover what experts in the field and classroom are saying in this timely collection of the best and the most current thinking on classroom management...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Create assessments that meet state standards and target students’ learning needs! In this revised edition of her bestseller, Kay Burke provides a wide range of easy-to-implement alternative assessments that address today’s accountability requirements...read more

Product Description: Formerly a SkyLight publication.What do we want our students to know twenty-five years from now? In this information-filled resource, author Kay Burke presents ways to design criteria to measure ongoing student growth and development.