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Ahead of the Curve: The Power of Assessment to Transform Teaching and Learning
Editor(s): Douglas Reeves
Ahead of the Curve is written by the most influential, leading-edge luminaries on assessment and brings their ideas and recommendations into a single resource, illustrating the range of effective assessment design and implementation. From involving students in the assessme...
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Robert J. Marzano, Douglas Reeves, Richard DuFour, Larry Ainsworth, Lisa Almeida, Anne Davies, Linda Gregg, Thomas Guskey, Ken O'Connor, Rick Stiggins, Stephen White, Dylan William
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Becoming a Reflective Teacher
Just as successful athletes must identify strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and engage in focused practice to meet their goals, so must teachers. Learn how to combine a model of effective instruction with goal setting, focused practice, focused feedback, and observations to improve your instructi...
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Building Academic Vocabulary Student Notebook, Revised Edition
With the revised edition, teachers can give each student this colorful notebook that follows the six-step method for teaching academic vocabulary. There is space for more terms, and students can add new information as their understanding of the terms deepens and matures throughout the year. Plus, te...
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Building Academic Vocabulary: Teacher's Manual
Supply each teacher in your program with this manual to implement a comprehensive approach to teaching academic vocabulary at the classroom, school, and district levels.
Using the manual's list of 7,923 terms, school and district teams can choose the most important vocabulary terms they want to tea...
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Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement
Everyone knows that students from disadvantaged backgrounds, who are not well prepared for school, have the toughest time making the grade. But what hasn't been so clear is what schools can do about it ... until now. Here at last is a book that spells out how to overcome the deficiencies that hamper...
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Classroom Assessment and Grading That Work
If you've ever questioned the logic of reducing a student's entire academic performance to a single test score or a vague letter grade, then here's a book that will revolutionize the way you think about assessment and grading. Drawing from years of in-depth research, Dr. Robert J. Marzano provides y...
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Classroom Management That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Every Teacher
It’s a fact that effectively managed classrooms can make a huge difference on students’ achievement gains – maybe as much as 20 percentile points. What hasn’t been clear is what teachers actually do to create effectively managed classrooms. Now, here’s a book that ...
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Classroom Strategies for Cultivating Teacher Effectiveness
Written for classroom instructors, Becoming a Reflective Teacher introduces 280 research-based strategies that are expanded on in its companion book Coaching Classroom Instruction, written for leaders and coaches. This two-book set is designed to allow classroom teachers and building- and district-l...
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Coaching Classroom Instruction
A must-have resource for individual educators, teams, or coaches, this book covers approaches for boosting professional growth and macrostrategies that are responsive to student needs. Learn how to offer targeted feedback to teachers, empowering them to identify how they can improve their knowledge ...
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Designing & Teaching Learning Goals & Objectives
Design and teach effective learning goals and objectives by following strategies based on the strongest research and theories available. This first book in the The Classroom Strategies Series includes a short summary of the key research behind these classroom practices and shows how to implement the...
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Designing and Assessing Educational Objectives: Applying the New Taxonomy
This hands-on guide explains how to apply the new taxonomy to develop meaningful and targeted educational objectives and assessments. Translating mandated standards into concrete objectives and then creating appropriate tasks to assess student learning of those objectives can be a challenge for educ...
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Developing Expert Teachers
In this two-part presentation, Robert J. Marzano provides a blueprint detailing how schools and districts can develop teacher expertise. Addressing teachers directly as well as school and district leaders, he charts research-based techniques to organize strategies through lesson segments using a nin...
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District Leadership That Works: Striking the Right Balance
Bridge the great divide between distanced administrative duties and daily classroom impact. This book introduces high-level leaders to a top-down power mechanism called “defined autonomy,” a concept that focuses on district-defined, nonnegotiable, common goals and a system of accountabil...
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Effective Supervision: Supporting the Art and Science of Teaching
It’s true that even modest improvements in teacher effectiveness can lead to impressive gains in student achievement. But what hasn’t been clear is what exactly district leaders should do to encourage and support teachers in practicing the art and science of great teaching . . . until no...
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Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading
Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading. The author details the specific benefits of formative assessment. He explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, how to track student progress, and how to assign ...
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Handbook for Classroom Management That Works
Use this handbook in self-help and study groups and teacher workshops to implement the research-based classroom management practices from the bestseller Classroom Management That Works. The authors guide you through the classroom management approaches that support higher student achievement and prov...
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Handbook for the Art and Science of Teaching
Implementing the action steps from The Art and Science of Teaching is much easier when you use this in-depth resource for workshops, teacher training, and self-help. Hundreds of samples, guidelines, checklists, and activities help teachers in all grades and subjects become instant experts on Dr. Mar...
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Leaders of Learning: How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement
For many years, the authors have been fellow travelers on the journey to help educators improve their schools. Their first coauthored book focuses on district leadership, principal leadership, and team leadership, and addresses how individual teachers can be most effective in leading students—...
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Making Standards Useful in the Classroom
It's true that state standards often have way too much content and aren't written in a way that enhances classroom instruction and formative assessment. That's why this guide is invaluable for any educator who wants to ensure that standards actually lead to higher student achievement. The authors gi...
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On Excellence in Teaching
Editor(s): Robert J. Marzano
Learn from the world’s best education researchers, theorists, and staff developers as they present recommendations on effective instruction. The book provides a comprehensive view of instruction from a theoretical, systemic, and classroom perspective. The authors&...
Author(s):
Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, Jana S. Marzano, Barrie Bennett, David Berliner, Jere Brophy, Lynn Erickson, Thomas Good, Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Richard Mayer, Jay McTighe, Matthew Perini, Harvey Silver, Carol Ann Tomlinson, Grant Wiggins
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