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By Elizabeth Hammerman, Diann Musial

Challenge and extend scholars' skills with multidimensional functionality tasks!

In this important source, technological know-how educators Elizabeth Hammerman and Diann Musial outline a brand new imaginative and prescient for integrating technology, arithmetic, and language arts with guideline and review and inspire lecturers to improve trustworthy strategies for assessing either their educating perform and pupil learning.

This revised variation deals greater than 20 functionality exams that advertise pupil engagement. each one truly articulated job correlates with present learn and makes a speciality of studying signs associated with nation and nationwide criteria. The exams additionally version inquiry-based technological know-how in methods confirmed to extend pupil success, permitting novices to illustrate their figuring out of embedded options via exploration, inquiry, and application.

Teachers can stick with designated guidance to improve personalized exams or use the checks already incorporated to guage learners':

• realizing of content material and processes
• improvement of advanced considering skills
• flair for science
• skill to make real-world connections

Featuring studying logs, portfolios, peer interview innovations, and pattern teacher-student interviews, Integrating technological know-how With arithmetic and Literacy, moment Edition, is helping educators receive exact functionality facts whereas giving scholars possibilities to check the area in intriguing ways.

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View performances of students in their entirety. Separate performances into two groups: those that were adequate and those that were not. View the adequate performances and select subgroups that stood out as exceptional and those that were merely acceptable. Review the inadequate performances and separate them into two subgroups: those performances that display serious problems and those that are simply inadequate. Return to each of the four groups, ranging from seriously inadequate to exceptional, and identify (based on the evidence of student work) the characteristics that best describe each category or group.

It challenges the boundaries of the learner’s mental images and experiences. Through inquiry, students are able to think about their own thinking, critique what they know, and generate new questions that reach beyond the knowledge they already possess. Such questions are generated by encountering new experiences in a somewhat “risky” manner, since challenging the limits of what one knows includes admitting that one does not have all the answers or knowledge. For example, in a physics class, students might study various types of forces and see them in action.

The goals of science education can be met through a strong commitment to an inquiry-based science program as the means for learning standards-based concepts, developing skills, practicing scientific habits of mind, and making real-world connections. 2 New Visions for Mathematics and Language Literacy A revolution is taking place within the fields of mathematics and language literacy. Both have experienced a paradigm shift. This shift includes a move away from the mastery of information to the attainment of a broad, interconnected knowledge base.

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