Title

2000-2001 Missouri Gold Star Schools: Profiles in Excellence

Covers several Missouri school districts and their success stories.

Title

Offers educators an introduction to “the only mass of matter
in the known universe that can contemplate itself”, the human brain.  We all know that the brain is where learning takes place, but how many of us understand the brain’s basic workings and use that understanding in our work with students?  After reading this book, you’ll be able to identify the basic parts of the brain.  You’ll also be able to discuss how the brain learns, remembers, and forgets.

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The performance tasks in this book will engage your students in realistic problems which apply mathematical concepts and skills to authentic contexts.  It will help you align your classroom activities with national mathematics standards.  There are 21 performance tasks and scoring rubrics, along with samples of student work which clarify the tasks and anchor the points of the scoring rubrics.

Title

Eye on Education, Inc.

The performance tasks in this book will engage your students in realistic problems which apply mathematical concepts and skills to authentic contexts.  It will help you align your classroom activities with national mathematics standards.  There are 24 performance tasks and scoring rubrics, along with samples of student work which clarify the tasks and anchor the points of the scoring rubrics.

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A Collection of Performance Tasks and Rubrics: Primary School Mathematics

Eye on Education, Inc.

This book will help you engage your young students in developmentally appropriate activities which apply mathematical concepts and skills.  The authors have assembled 20 class-tested, easy-to-use performance tasks, corresponding to topics taught in kindergarten, first, second and third grade mathematics.

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A Collection of Performance Tasks and Rubrics: Upper Elementary School Mathematics

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A Mathematical Mystery Tour: Higher-Thinking Math Tasks

A journey through the mathematical patterns of nature using Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio.

Title

As recently as the early ’90s, portfolios began to appear in the classroom to support a variety of activities, from helping students and teachers set goals to helping teachers and administrators assess curriculum needs.  For many educators, the portfolio process offers a clear strategy for the achievement of important classroom objectives.  According to accounts from both researchers and practitioners, portfolios can engage students, document learning, and facilitate communication with parents.

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Catalog of instructional materials for adult education

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An ASCD topic pack designed to provide timely information on arts education, including full text articles, ERIC resources, a list of journal articles, and internet resources.

Title

Assessing Reasoning and Problem Solving: A Sourcebook for Elementary School Teachers

Stephen Krulik and Jesse A. Rudnick

Includes slice-of-life math problems that children can relate to and enjoy solving,
teacher’s notes to guide your students in planning and carrying out each project, ready-to-copy student worksheets, ready-to-copy forms for assessing observations, interviews, projects, etc.

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This book showcases assessment practices to motivate your students while providing you with detailed feedback to improve instruction and enhance learning.  Included are open-ended questions and rubrics, journals, projects, presentations, observations, and checklists.

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Pairs fiction with nonfiction, builds comprehension strategies, analyzes character, builds vocabulary, includes a complete graphic organizer, determines what is important, draws conclusions, and teaches to identify the author’s purpose.  A collection of
children’s stories and accompanying comprehension questions

Title

Beyond Hands-On: Techniques for Using Color, Scent, Taste, and Touch to Enhance Learning

This book goes beyond hands-on to minds-on learning with fresh and fascinating tips and techniques for using color, scent, taste, sound and touch to stimulate the process.  Psychologists, scientists and businesses have been utilizing this research on cognition for years.  Now you can put these proven techniques to practical use in your classroom with the ideas and activities in this book.

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Brain-Based Learning

An ASCD topic pack designed to provide timely information on brain-based learning, including full text articles, ERIC resources, a list of journal articles, and internet resources.

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Bringing the NCTM Standards to Life: Exemplary Practices for Middle Schools

This book presents teacher profiles and sample lessons from across the country.  It demonstrates that the NCTM standards reflect successful practices of teachers at the
“grass roots” and offers practical advice to help you implement the standards in your classroom.

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Bringing the NCTM Standards to Life: Exemplary Practices from High Schools

Eye on Education, Inc.

By presenting teacher profiles and sample lessons from across the country, this book shows that the NCTM Standards reflect successful practices of teachers at the
“grass roots”.

Title

CAT5: Complete Battery, Level 13, Form A

The California Achievement Test, Fifth Edition

Title

CAT5: Complete Battery, Level 17, Form A

The California Achievement Test, Fifth Edition

Title

Catch Them Thinking and Writing

This book helps teachers implement an effective factual thinking and writing program into elementary, middle, and high schools.  Demonstrates seven different models of factual writing: narratives, procedures, descriptions, reports, explanations, persuasive arguments, and discussions of arguments.

Title

Catch Them Thinking In Social Studies

SkyLight Training and Publishing, Inc.

Offers teachers a wide variety of problem-solving activities in five areas of the social studies curriculum: geography, politics, economics, culture, and history.

Title

Classroom Instruction that Works

Discusses nine broad teaching strategies that have positive effects on student learning: identifying similarities and differences, summarizing and note taking, reinforcing effort and providing recognition, homework and practice, nonlinguistic representations, cooperative learning, setting objectives and providing feedback, generating and testing hypotheses, questions, cues, and advance organizers.

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Classroom-Ready Activities For Teaching History and Geography in Grades 7-12

Combines a selection of resource and reference materials with specific class-tested activities.  An ideal tool for in-service or pre-service social studies teachers, this book contains a wealth of ideas and information.

Title

Communication Arts
Teacher’s Guide, Level 13/14

A collection of classroom activities.

Title

Communication Arts
Teacher’s Guide, Level 17/18

A collection of classroom activities.

Title

Comprehensive Reading and Writing Assessment 5

A booklet of reading stories and corresponding assessments.

Title

Comprehensive Reading and Writing Assessment 2

A booklet of reading stories and corresponding assessments.

Title

Comprehensive Reading and Writing Assessment 3

A booklet of reading stories and corresponding assessments.

Title

Comprehensive Reading and Writing Assessment 4

A booklet of reading stories and corresponding assessments.

Title

Comprehensive Reading and Writing Assessment 5

A booklet of reading stories and corresponding assessments.

Title

Comprehensive Reading and Writing Assessment 5: Track Student Progress and Improve Performance

A booklet of reading stories and corresponding assessments.

Title

Comprehensive Reading and Writing Assessment 8

A booklet of reading stories and corresponding assessments.

Title

Comprehensive Social Studies Assessment

Options Publishing, Inc.

A booklet of historical stories and tests.

Title

Cooperative Learning & Higher-Level Thinking: The Q-Matrix

A collection of hands-on manipulatives for classroom instruction.

Title

Designing and Using Portfolios

Beverly D. Shaklee, Nancy E. Barbour, Richard Ambrose, Susan J. Hansford

The authors present a model of portfolio assessment as a decision-making process, then take the reader through the actual decision points step by step including classroom scenarios to show how the process looks in different classrooms.

Title

Discover Your
Child’s Learning Style

Shows you how to assess and nurture your child’s individual learning potential based on his or her talents, interests, disposition, preferred environment, and more.

Title

Discovering Me: A Guide to Teaching Health and Building Adolescents’ Self-Esteem

Discovering Me is designed to help teenagers develop self-esteem.  Using an interactive format, the book offers guidance on topics teenagers are most concerned about.  The book is an excellent tool for developing essential life skills that can help youth pass through adolescence safely and successfully.

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Early Childhood Assessment

A collection of activities and assessments for use in the classroom.

Title

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ

Argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow, ignoring a crucial range of abilities that matter immensely in terms of how we do in life.  Emotional intelligence includes self-awareness and impulse control, persistence, zeal and self-motivation, empathy and social deftness.

Title

Exploring Classroom Assessment in Mathematics

A guide for professional development which examines teacher investigations and other topics.

Title

Foreign Language
Teacher’s Guide to Active Learning

Deborah Blaz

Eye on Education, Inc.

The easy to implement activities and strategies in this book will help middle and high school foreign language teachers enhance their students’ success.  It shows how to create a classroom in which students can actively experience and discover a foreign language.

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Get Set for Reading: Test Preparation for Reading Assessments Level AA

A collection of short children’s stories and comprehension questions

Title

Get Set for Reading: Test Preparation for Reading Assessments Level B

A collection of short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

Title

Get Set for Reading: Test Preparation for Reading Assessments Level D

A collection of short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

Title

Get Set for Reading: Test Preparation for Reading Assessments Level F

A collection of short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

Title

Get Set for Reading: Test Preparation for Reading Assessments Level H

A collection of short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

Title

Get Set for Reading: Test Preparation for Reading Assessments Level I

A collection of short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

Title

Go For It: Listen, Read, Write Level AA

short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

Title

Go For It: Listen, Read, Write Level B

short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

Title

Go For It: Listen, Read, Write Level D

short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

Title

Go For It: Listen, Read, Write Level F

short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

Title

Great Performances: Creating Classroom Based Assessment Tasks

The authors discuss a four-step approach for teaching students how to acquire content knowledge – labeled “Info In” – and examine four “Info Out” modes through which students can make their content understanding explicit for evaluation purposes.  It is filled with highly motivating examples of student projects as well as effective assessment tools that teachers can adapt for their own classrooms.

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Offers practical solutions for turning the computer into a valuable teaching tool, inside and outside of your classroom.  This witty and insightful account will show you how a single computer can help ease your administrative burdens, enliven classroom presentations, spark incredible discussions, and foster cooperative learning and critical thinking.

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Hands-On Algebra: Ready-to-Use Games & Activities for Grades

Here’s a cast collection of 159 ready-to-use games and activities to make algebra meaningful and fun for kids of all ability levels.

Title

Higher-Level Thinking Questions: Life & Earth Sciences

Ready-to-use questions and activities for life and earth sciences.

Title

Higher-Level Thinking Questions: Intermediate Literature

Ready-to-use questions and activities for intermediate level literature classes.

Title

Higher-Level Thinking Questions: Social Studies

Ready-to-use questions and activities for social studies classes

Title

How to Get Better Test Scores: High School Exit Exam

Explains the purpose of a writing test, 6 characteristics of good writing, and common writing problems.

Title

How to Get Better Test Scores: Language Arts Grade 3

2003

Covers topics such as parts of speech, sentences, combining sentences, writing paragraphs, spelling, research skills, and reference sources.

Title

How to Get Better Test Scores: Math Grade 8

2003

Covers topics such as working with integers, fractions, decimals, and percents, solving equations and inequalities, statistics and probability, measurement, geometry, and interpreting data.

Title

How to Plan and Implement a Peer Coaching Program

Describes how schools can implement a peer coaching program that serves as a professional support group.  She describes peer coaching as a process in which two or more colleagues work together to reflect on current practices; expand, refine, and build new skills; share ideas; teach one another; conduct research; or solve problems.

Title

How to Raise Test Scores

Provides teachers with ten proven instructional strategies to enhance learning and raise student test scores.

Title

Interdisciplinary High School Teaching: Strategies for Integrated Learning

Organizes twenty years of instructional innovation into a comprehensible framework.  It offers a functional model of interdisciplinary curriculum organization and instruction, supported by examples of excellence drawn from thirty states.  Truly a book by and for teachers, it includes ten full-length case studies from real classrooms plus vignettes and illustrations submitted by hundreds of teachers.

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Interdisciplinary Strategies for English and Social Studies Classrooms

Here in this teacher-friendly format are suggested alternatives to help educators build schools that will provide the highest quality educational experiences for all students.  Nearly 50 interdisciplinary strategies, lasting from one day to a term, link social studies and English classes around common themes.

Title

Invitations: Changing as Teachers and Learners K-12

The text provides in-depth information for putting whole language theory into practice, as well as step-by-step demonstration lessons.

Title

Keylinks: The Connection Between Instruction and Assessment: High School Level 9

A collection of stories and comprehension questions.

Title

Keylinks: The Connection Between Instruction and Assessment: High School Level 10

A collection of stories and comprehension questions.

Title

Language Arts Assessment Grades 1 – 2

A workbook of writing activities.

Title

Language Arts Assessment Grades 5 – 6

A workbook of writing activities.

Title

Learning About Teaching

An interactive tutorial program to facilitate the study of teaching.

Title

Learning From the Lives of Amazing People

Janice Gudeman

Inspire your students through the lives of amazing people.  This book features twenty notable personalities such as Art Linkletter, Gale Sayers, Dale Evans Rogers and Jesse Owens.  Each of these people faced an adversity or overcame a hardship.  The valuable lessons learned from their exemplary lives will provide students the inspiration and ideas to creatively work through problems and advance through their own adversities.

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Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture Your
Child’s Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolescence.

Marian Diamond, Ph.D., and Janet Hopson

Leading brain researcher Dr. Marian Diamond draws on decades of experience and scientific study to reveal how a
child’s brain physically responds to environmental
influences – and how we can provide our children with the nurturing and stimulating conditions they need to develop and thrive.

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Making the Case for Math

A special report on elementary mathematics in the 1990s from D.C. Heath and Company, the Nation’s Leader in Mathematics Education.

Title

A workbook of math activities.

Title

Math Maps
Teacher’s Guide

Discusses the structure, key words, symbols, and colors of math maps.  Covers activities such as topic preview, topic recall, creation maps, and brainstorming.

Title

Math Matters: Basic Concepts Through Skill Building and Problem Solving Level C

A math program that will help the student build and strengthen math skills.  The program is designed to help make sense of the math skills students use in the classroom and in real life.

Title

Math Matters: Basic Concepts Through Skill Building and Problem Solving Level E

A math program that will help the student build and strengthen math skills.  The program is designed to help make sense of the math skills students use in the classroom and in real life.

Title

Mathematics Assessment, A Video Library,
K – 12: Guidebook

An NCTM assessment video library.

Title

Mathematics Assessment: Myths, Models, Good Questions, and Practical Suggestions

1991

A collection of examples of assessment techniques that focus on student thinking.

Title

Middle School Assessment

Offers suggestions for how a teacher can pull everything together for the purposes of grading and conferencing, how a teacher can accumulate evidence to back up subjective observations of cooperative groups, how a teacher can involve students and give them ownership of the learning process, and how a teacher can find the time to do all of these new processes.

Title

Missouri Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Vol 12

This is the official publication of the Missouri Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and is published yearly. It contains articles, views and opinions of various authors regarding these subjects.

Title

Missouri Show-Me Standards Electronic Alignment Tool

Mike Willard

The Missouri Show-Me Standards Electronic Alignment Tool CD-ROM contains a relational database that links Missouri Show-Me Standards and
Missouri’s Framework for Curriculum Development, including assessment annotations for communication arts, fine arts, health education, physical education, science, and mathematics as well as the Social Studies Content Specifications and Integrated information and Technology Literacy Skills.

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Guide to Eighth-Grade Mathematics Lessons: United States, Japan & Germany

This teaching module is designed to help you, the moderator, facilitate discussions among educators. The guide will help you to make appropriate decisions about your own sessions and suggest things to consider s you plan for and facilitate the discussion.

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PAL-Prep Level A

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

Title

PAL-Prep Level AA

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

Title

PAL-Prep Level AAA

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

Title

PAL-Prep Level AAAA

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

Title

PAL-Prep Level B

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

Title

PAL-Prep Level C

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

Title

PAL-Prep Level D

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

Title

PAL-Prep Level E

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

Title

PAL-Prep Level F

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

Title

PAM H

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Math

Title

PE-4-Me: Teaching Lifelong Health & Fitness; A Brain-Compatible, Thematic Approach

In PE-4-me, you’ll find Cathie’s blueprint for a unique K-12 program that integrates physical activity with movement concepts, social skills, stress reduction, nutrition, school safety and drug resistance education.

Title

Performance Assessment

In this topic book you will find: Full-Text Articles, Other ASCD resources, ERIC resources, Lists of journal
articles, Internet Resources, Additional resources, and information about ASCD

Title

Performance-Based Learning and Assessments in Middle School Science

This book contains a collection of performance tasks and easy-to-use assessments tools, ready to be photocopied and distributed to your students

Title

Planning and Assessing the Curriculum in English Language Arts

This book concerns processes for program development, and it strongly resists the notion that there is a single curriculum-local, state or national-that all other schools can or should follow. The author has focused on philosophical and practical issues in program development.

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Portfolios and Other Assessments

This book is designed to help you make the leap into the new assessment. It explains the relationship between the types of performance assessments that are now being used and shows how they fit into your existing portfolio system. Its give you examples to look at, methods to try, tools to use, and forms to run off.

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Portfolios in the Classroom: Tools for Learning and Instruction

The wonderful effect of the portfolio process is the self-awareness that develops when kids generate their own selection criteria, make decisions, and reflect on their work. This book is full of ideas and suggestions that teachers can put in use immediately in your classroom.

Title

Problems as Possibilities: Problem-Based Learning for K-12 Education

Problem Based Learning is an authentic, experiential form of learning centered around the collaborative investigation and resolution of messy, real-world problems.

Title

Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievements

Professional Learning Communities at Work provides specific how-to information about transforming schools into results-oriented professional learning communities.

Title

Promoting Literacy in Grades 4-9: A handbook for Teachers and Administrators

Promoting Literacy in Grades 4-9 is a reference for pre-service and practicing classroom teachers who want to develop and maintain literacy skills and abilities of their students, as well as establish and maintain classroom climates that promote and nurture literacy.

Title

A Peer Group Review: Establishing a Baseline for Missouri School District Student Achievement. K8

The Public Education Evaluation Report (PEER) will inform and activate all Missourians to Stand behind and support public education and its ability to educate our children to high standards.

Title

A Peer Group Review: Establishing a Baseline for Missouri School District Student Achievement. K12-1

The Public Education Evaluation Report (PEER) will inform and activate all Missourians to Stand behind and support public education and its ability to educate our children to high standards.

Title

A Peer Group Review: Establishing a Baseline for Missouri School District Student Achievement. K12-2

The Public Education Evaluation Report (PEER) will inform and activate all Missourians to Stand behind and support public education and its ability to educate our children to high standards.

Title

A Peer Group Review: Establishing a Baseline for Missouri School District Student Achievement. K12-3

The Public Education Evaluation Report (PEER) will inform and activate all Missourians to Stand behind and support public education and its ability to educate our children to high standards.

Title

A Peer Group Review: Establishing a Baseline for Missouri School District Student Achievement. K12-4

The Public Education Evaluation Report (PEER) will inform and activate all Missourians to Stand behind and support public education and its ability to educate our children to high standards.

Title

A Peer Group Review: Establishing a Baseline for Missouri School District Student Achievement. K12-6

The Public Education Evaluation Report (PEER) will inform and activate all Missourians to Stand behind and support public education and its ability to educate our children to high standards.

Title

A Peer Group Review: Establishing a Baseline for Missouri School District Student Achievement. K12-7

The Public Education Evaluation Report (PEER) will inform and activate all Missourians to Stand behind and support public education and its ability to educate our children to high standards.

Title

A Peer Group Review: Establishing a Baseline for Missouri School District Student Achievement. K12-8

The Public Education Evaluation Report (PEER) will inform and activate all Missourians to Stand behind and support public education and its ability to educate our children to high standards.

Title

A Peer Group Review: Establishing a Baseline for Missouri School District Student Achievement. K12-10

The Public Education Evaluation Report (PEER) will inform and activate all Missourians to Stand behind and support public education and its ability to educate our children to high standards.

Title

A Peer Group Review: Establishing a Baseline for Missouri School District Student Achievement. K12-11

The Public Education Evaluation Report (PEER) will inform and activate all Missourians to Stand behind and support public education and its ability to educate our children to high standards.

Title

Quantum Teaching: Orchestrating Student Success

Based on 18 years of experience and research with over 25,000 students-plus the synergy of hundreds of teachers worldwide, Quantum Teaching is the orchestration of learning…in living color…in
“surround sound” with all the nuances.

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Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement.

Tangible, measurable results can be the key to school improvement. Under the right conditions, schools can bring about incremental, even dramatic, results. Author Mike Schmoker examines these conditions and the theory behind them, using examples from schools to show that virtually any school can begin to successfully replicate the conditions.

Title

Rethinking How Art is Taught: A Critical Convergence

Rethinking How Art is Taught is a break-though work that links goals, national standards and curriculum reform in an easy-to-read format.

Title

Rethinking Teacher Preparation in Social Studies

Kathleen Sullivan Brown, Sharon Shockley Lee, Sheila Onuska, Arthur Shaffer

The St. Louis 2000 Project brought together educators from five different school districts, five universities, the Professional Development Schools Collaborative, the Cooperating School Districts International Education Consortium and the Reginal Professional Development Center. The central focus of the project was improving the preparation of social studies teachers. This is the finding of that project.

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Science Assessment Grades 1-2

This book is composed of grade-level investigations that are keyed to the subject matter usually taught at the first and second grade levels

Title

Science Assessment Grades 5-6

This book is composed of grade-level investigations that are keyed to the subject matter usually taught at the fifth and sixth grade levels.

Title

Short Subjects in Mathematics Book 4

Short Subjects in Mathematics is a problem-solving resource for teachers to use with fourth-grade students in their classroom.

Title

Social Studies Assessment Grades 1-2

This resource guide will help teachers to implement authentic assessment in your classroom immediately. It provides both theoretical information and ideas for practical application

Title

Social Studies Assessment Grades 3-4

This resource guide will help teachers to implement authentic assessment in your classroom immediately. It provides both theoretical information and ideas for practical application.

Title

Social Studies Assessment Grades 5-6

This resource guide will help teachers to implement authentic assessment in your classroom immediately. It provides both theoretical information and ideas for practical application.

Title

Stanford Achievement Test Primary 3

Practice Test

Title

Stanford Achievement Test Form S

Complete Battery Test Booklet, Multiple Choice

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Stanford Achievement Test Spring Grade 3 / Fall Grade 4

Reviewers Edition

Title

Stanford Achievement Test Forms S/SA

Directions for administering.

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Student Portfolios

This book offers information about the power of portfolios. The text states that portfolios are a valuable tool in student assessment, portfolios provide students the opportunity to see their progress and tell the stories of their learning.

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It explains how to:

• Determine who is to teach and assess each standard
• Create a curriculum and assessment plan
• Create a comprehensive assessment system
• Map out a path to success through action planning.

Improved student performance is the centerpiece of all standards-linking processes.  An extensive glossary and a helpful list of selected resources round out this volume.

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Survival Guide

“Own what you teach” is one teacher’s advice to new teachers.
It’s such a simple and strong statement. What you impart to students should be as important to you as you want it to be to them. May this book help give you the courage and the techniques to be not just a good teacher, but a great one.

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Teaching Beginning Reading and Writing with the Picture Work Inductive Model

In this Practical guide to teaching beginning language learners of all ages, Calhoun encourages us to begin where the learners begin-with their developed listening and speaking vocabularies and other accumulated knowledge about the world.

Title

Teaching Mathematics in the Block

This practical guide includes lesson plans and strategies for the instruction of mathematics. The Authors also shares their experiences with the block schedule and show how it has enhanced student achievement.

Title

Teaching Reading in the Content Areas – If Not Me, Then Who?

The following four major areas comprise the contents of this publication:

Area 1: We examine the three interactive elements of the reading process that influence comprehension: what the reader brings to the situation; the learning climate; and the characteristics of the written text, or the text features.

Area 2: Strategies:  We have compiled 40 popular teaching strategies that can be adapted for students from elementary through high school and that are appropriate for students in all content areas.

Area 3: Strategic teaching: As a decision maker, the teacher must consciously plan for teaching reading in all content areas, and this section shares a framework for instructional planning.

Area 4: Six assumptions about learning: The research on learning serves as a foundation for this publication, and so the critical implications for instruction are discussed.  This section can serve as the introduction or as the conclusion to this publication.  Big picture thinkers may enjoy the information up front while other readers may want an understanding of the reading of the process and strategies first.

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Teaching Social Studies in Grades K-8

Teaching Social Studies in Grades K-8 is an informative idea and resource guide that proposes to do just as the title suggests. Not only will this book give teachers information but it will also provide many functional and creative activities designed to both motivate and educate.

Title

Teaching with the Brain in Mind

ASCD

Teaching with the brain in mind offers the latest practical, easy-to-understand research on learning and the brain.

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Test Preparation 2001 Catalog

Help your students succeed in reading, test taking, language arts, mathematics, and phonics

Title

The Bremen-Town Musicians

This easy-to-read story from scholastic presents a classic folktale about the noisy foursome that outwits a band of robbers.

Title

The Collaborative Social Studies Classroom: A Resource for Teachers Grades 7-12

Social Studies Teachers will find dozens of ways to energize their classes using the dynamic classroom strategies presented here. More than 100 sample activities are included.

Title

The Mars Millennium Project

This kit will allow students to lead a team of young people in imagining and designing a community on mars for 100 participants in the year 2030.

Title

The Open-Ended Approach: A new Proposal for Teaching Mathematics

This book gives an in depth description about developmental research projects on methods of higher-order-thinking from the Ministry of Education in Japan.

Title

The Portfolio Organizer: Succeeding with Portfolios in Your Classroom

The Portfolio Organizer stands out as a superb contribution to the vital field of accountability for learning. This book is distinguished by the presence and integration of a conceptual framework and a superb array of practical examples.

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They Don’t Tell the Truth about the Wind: Hands-On exploration in K-3 Science

They Don’t Tell the Truth about the Wind will help you make
children’s first attempts at scientific exploration both rewarding and relevant. The units in this book describe classroom techniques for discovery.

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Tips from Teachers: Setting the Foundation for Student Achievement

This pamphlet gives advice from teachers to teachers, students, and parents about how to be an academic success.

Title

Understanding by Design

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowing? What do we want students to understand and be able to do? Understanding by design explores these questions and more and provides practical solutions for the teacher-designer.

Title

Using the Internet to Strengthen Curriculum

Today’s students literally grew up with the internet. Teachers can help students learn to use the internet as a learning tool. Using the Internet to Strengthen Curriculum is not a technical book; rather it is a book about teaching focusing on showing teachers who to use the World Wide Web in their classrooms.

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Welcome To Math Maps: A Unique Leaning Concept

Math Maps are visual summaries which give both an overview and details of Geometry concepts.

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Writing Performance Counts: Evaluate Your Writing Level C

This guide gives information on writing to respond to literature, persuade, and explain and inform for level C students.

Title

Writing Performance Counts: Evaluate Your Writing Level C

This guide gives information on writing to respond to literature, persuade, and explain and inform for level C students.

Title

Writing Performance Counts: Evaluate Your Writing Level E

This guide gives information on writing to respond to literature, persuade, and explain and inform for level E students.

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Writing Performance Counts: Evaluate Your Writing Level G

This guide gives information on writing to respond to literature, persuade, and explain and inform for level G students.

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1. Mathematical Reasoning
2. Number and Numeration
3. Operations
4. Modeling / Multiple Representation
5. Measurement
6. Uncertainty
7. Patterns.

This book is divided up into Warm-Ups, Warm-Ups Instruction, Half-Length Tests, and Additional questions.  The Half-Length Tests and Additional questions mirror the standard in both questions types and skill categories, or key strands.

Each test contains 7 multiple-choice questions, 3 short-response questions, and one extended-response question.

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1. Mathematical Reasoning
2. Number and Numeration
3. Operations
4. Modeling / Multiple Representation
5. Measurement
6. Uncertainty
7. Patterns.

This book is divided up into Warm-Ups, Warm-Ups Instruction, Half-Length Tests, and Additional questions.  The Half-Length Tests and Additional questions mirror the standard in both questions types and skill categories, or key strands.

Each Half-Length Test contains 15 multiple-choice questions, 7 short-response questions, and 2 extended-response questions.

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Comprehensive Math Assessment 4

1. Mathematical Reasoning
2. Number and Numeration
3. Operations
4. Modeling / Multiple Representation
5. Measurement
6. Uncertainty
7. Patterns.

This book is divided up into Warm-Ups, Warm-Ups Instruction, Half-Length Tests, and Additional questions.  The Half-Length Tests and Additional questions mirror the standard in both questions types and skill categories, or key strands.

Each Half-Length Test contains 15 multiple-choice questions, 7 short-response questions, and 2 extended-response questions.

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Comprehensive Math Assessment 5

1. Mathematical Reasoning
2. Number and Numeration
3. Operations
4. Modeling / Multiple Representation
5. Measurement
6. Uncertainty
7. Patterns.

This book is divided up into Warm-Ups, Warm-Ups Instruction, Half-Length Tests, and Additional questions.  The Half-Length Tests and Additional questions mirror the standard in both questions types and skill categories, or key strands.

Each Half-Length Test contains 15 multiple-choice questions, 7 short-response questions, and 2 extended-response questions.

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Comprehensive Math Assessment 6

1. Mathematical Reasoning
2. Number and Numeration
3. Operations
4. Modeling / Multiple Representation
5. Measurement
6. Uncertainty
7. Patterns.

This book is divided up into Warm-Ups, Warm-Ups Instruction, Half-Length Tests, and Additional questions.  The Half-Length Tests and Additional questions mirror the standard in both questions types and skill categories, or key strands.

Each Half-Length Test contains 15 multiple-choice questions, 7 short-response questions, and 2 extended-response questions.

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Comprehensive Math Assessment 7

1. Mathematical Reasoning
2. Number and Numeration
3. Operations
4. Modeling / Multiple Representation
5. Measurement
6. Uncertainty
7. Patterns.

This book is divided up into Warm-Ups, Warm-Ups Instruction, Half-Length Tests, and Additional questions.  The Half-Length Tests and Additional questions mirror the standard in both questions types and skill categories, or key strands.

Each Half-Length Test contains 15 multiple-choice questions, 7 short-response questions, and 2 extended-response questions.

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Comprehensive Math Assessment 8

1. Mathematical Reasoning
2. Number and Numeration
3. Operations
4. Modeling / Multiple Representation
5. Measurement
6. Uncertainty
7. Patterns.

This book is divided up into Warm-Ups, Warm-Ups Instruction, Half-Length Tests, and Additional questions.  The Half-Length Tests and Additional questions mirror the standard in both questions types and skill categories, or key strands.

Each Half-Length Test contains 15 multiple-choice questions, 7 short-response questions, and 2 extended-response questions.

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Seven Simple Secrets – What the BEST Teachers Know and Do!

• Planning
• Classroom Management
• Instruction
• Attitude
• Professionalism
• Effective Discipline
• Motivation and Inspiration

Implementing these secrets will change your life both in and out of the classroom.  But most importantly, implementing these secrets will enhance the lives of every student you teach.

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Cartoons for
Trainers – 75 Cartoons to Use or Adapt for Transitions, Activities, Discussion Points, Ice Breakers, and Much More

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101 Ways to Make Training Active – Second Edition

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Classroom Discussions Using Math Talk to Help Students Learn  –  Grades 1-6

Section Two:  Addresses how talk is effective for developing concepts and building connections among mathematical ideas, including computation, problem solving, terminology, symbols, and more.

Section Three:  gives teachers a valuable outline for how to get started using talk in the classroom, how to plan lessons, and how to deal with the inevitable challenges that are bound to arise.

Section Four:  Presents two extensive classroom discussions, providing further insights into how to use talk effectively.

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Navigating through Data Analysis and Probability in Prekindergarten – Grade 2

Includes CD Rom.

An understanding  of data analysis and probability is essential to the mathematics education of informed citizens.  Evaluating claims that are based on data and arriving at conclusions in the face of uncertainty have become basic skills in the information age.

This book discusses the early development of data and probability concepts and shows teachers how to introduce some foundational ideas to young students.  It guides teachers in helping these students discover the usefulness of bar graphs, tallies, frequency tables, and Venn diagrams to answer qu4estions to mane simple predictions about their everyday world.  A series of activities that engage students directly in collecting, organizing, and displaying data also enable them to explore and extend their understanding of basic ideas.  the book supplies margin notes with teaching tips, anticipated questions and responses from students, examples of students’ work, and suggestions for modifying activities for students who experience difficulty or need enrichment.

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Navigating through Measurement in Grades 3 – 5

Includes CD Rom.

Measurement, one of the most fundamental mathematical processes, is indispensable to the study of all branches of mathematics.  Measurement pervades daily activities, and measurement skills and tools are frequently applied in science, art, music, and social studies.

Why do we measure?  What can we measure?  How do we make a measurement?  These questions are the starting point for this book, which follows students’ natural progress through measurement in grades 3 – 5.  Early activities help student explore measuring with informal or nonstandard  units before using standard units to measure such attributes as length, weight, angle, and temperature.  Later activities extend these investigations to the measurement of two- and three-dimensional objects.  Student work in a variety of lively real-world contexts.

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Navigating through Algebra in Grades 6 – 8

Includes CD Rom.

Throughout history, algebra has been a cornerstone of mathematics.  Algebraic thinking should be fundamental to the basic education of all student, beginning in the earliest years.

This book presents topics on integrating the themes of using mathematical models and representing and analyzing mathematical situations and structures.  Features activities and problems that require students to use the four representations related to work with functions and to highlight interactions that may occur among these representations.

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Navigating through Measurement in Grades 6 – 8

Includes CD Rom.

Measurement, one of the most fundamental mathematical processes, is indispensable to the study of all branches of mathematics.  Measurement pervades daily activities, and measurement skills and tools are frequently applied in science, art, music, and social studies.

Real-world investigations can move students in the middle grades from their earlier, informal understanding of measurement to the abstract, sophisticated understanding that they will need in high school.  This book provides hands-on activities that build important strategies an concepts.  Students learn about accuracy and estimation, and they develop formulas for the perimeter, area, and volume of two- and three-dimensional shapes.  In exploring proportionality, scaling and similarity, they build a scale model of a room and make a “pi ruler” to help gauge the age of a tree.  As they progress from fundamental measures, they investigate such rates as speed and density.

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Navigating through Geometry in Grades 6 – 8

Includes CD Rom.

Geometry enables us to describe, analyze, and understand our physical world.  It holds a central place in mathematics and is a focal point throughout all the school mathematics curriculum.  The methods and ideas of geometry are indispensable components of mathematical literacy.

This book presents the study of geometry in the middle grades as a pivotal point in the mathematical learning of students.  Activities focus on visualization, analysis, and informational deduction.  The authors describe the van Hiele framework and how it can help improve teaching strategies and assessment.

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Navigating through Measurement in Grades 9 – 12

Includes CD Rom.

Measurement, one of the most fundamental mathematical processes, is indispensable to the study of all branches of mathematics.  Measurement pervades daily activities, and measurement skills and tools are frequently applied in science, art, music, and social studies.

Throughout history, the need for more sophisticated measurements has led to the discovery of more sophisticated mathematics.  This book highlights this important idea in activities that help students explore an array of measurement strategies and techniques.  Investigations probe ancient methods for accomplishing such tasks as measuring the speed of ships at sea and estimating the distance of the sun from the earth.  Students apply simple formulas to measure complex shapes, explore iterative processes that lead to measurement formulas, and develop an original formula for measuring the size of a tree. They also discover how to use advanced technology to make measurements and mathematical models of real-world phenomena.

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Navigating through Algebra in Grades 9 – 12

Includes CD Rom.

Throughout history, algebra has been a cornerstone of mathematics.  Algebraic thinking should be fundamental to the basic education of all student, beginning in the earliest years.

This book addresses algebra as a language of process, expands the notion of variables and develops the notion of representation of the functions.  Also extends students’ understanding of algebraic equivalence and of change.  Features activities that can be used with students or as professional development exercises for teachers.  Provides blackline masters for classroom use.

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Navigating through Geometry in Grades 9 – 12

Includes CD Rom.

Geometry enables us to describe, analyze, and understand our physical world.  It holds a central place in mathematics and is a focal point throughout all the school mathematics curriculum.  The methods and ideas of geometry are indispensable components of mathematical literacy.

Excellent food for thought and helpful for professional development, with challenging activities for students.  Concentrates on topics such as the use of transformations, coordinates and matrices, congruence and similarity, and fractals and introductory limit notions.  Provides activities that require the use of technology (interactive geometry software, a calculator; or a computer with software that produces geometric images and graphs).

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Uncovering Student Ideas in Science – 25 Formative Assessment Probes

This book is loaded with classroom-friendly features to pinpoint what your students know (or think they know) so you can adjust your teaching accordingly.  At the book’s heart are 25 “probes.”  These brief, easily administered activities will determine your students’ thinking on 44 core science topics, grouped by light, sound, matter, gravity, heat and temperature, life science, and Earth and space science.

The accompanying teaching materials:

• Explain science content
• Give connections to various national standards
• Present developmental considerations
• Summarize relevant research on learning
• Suggest instructional approaches for elementary, middle, and high school students.

This book has reproducible pages you can use to discover student thinking on everything from Moon phases to conservation of matter.

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Teaching and Scoring Constructed Response and Performance Events

•  present examples of assessment items that have been used on MAP tests (released items) in four content
  areas – Communication Arts, Math, and Social Studies – at various grade levels;
•  show examples of student responses to those items along with scoring guides;
•  provide practice on scoring those student responses; and
•  share tips for moving student responses to higher levels.

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Mathematics Assessment: Alternative Approaches