College Board
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English
Description
This program explores the nature of authentic assessment and its impact on curriculum and instruction; identifies the economic and political pressures for accountability, which have driven school systems to adopt inadequate approaches to assessment; and highlights alternative assessment strategies and tools-those that help teachers make good instructional decisions, as well as those that help students develop self-monitoring and self-assessment strategies...
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English
Description
This program illustrates how teachers structure learning activities that foster independent learning around a central concept; identifies student-centered activities that make learning interesting, purposeful, and meaningful; models ways for teachers to guide students as they construct meaning and develop strategies for independent learning; and provides examples of how students can work together to develop real satisfaction through real learning....
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English
Description
This teleconference for teachers, administrators, and parents addresses the issues of improving comprehension; cognitive coaching; the link between thinking, reading, and writing; and the integration of instruction and assessment. The program features Syracuse University Professor Harold Herber, Professor Dorothy Strickland of Rutgers University, Robert Peterkin of Harvard University's Urban Superintendents' Program, Fairfax County (Virginia) teacher...
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English
Description
This program describes and demonstrates specific examples of instructional conversation and other types of cognitive coaching; identifies instructional arrangements that are used to promote active learning by students; models questioning techniques and student interactions, including the ways in which cognitive coaches keep student discussion focused and productive; and considers the role that authentic and ongoing assessment plays in cognitive coaching....
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English
Description
This program models the use of instructional conversations among students and between students and teachers; identifies the skills that students develop independently in an instructional environment; demonstrates how cognitive maps are used to present, organize, and record information; and shows how authentic assessment is used to determine the direction of learning activities. Reading comprehension is largely viewed as a process of discovery; teachers...
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English
Description
This program examines what stands between our children becoming literate adults or school dropouts. It explores the experiences of students on the edge of success or failure in school, shares the feelings of students who fail and those who triumph, visits classrooms around the country where teachers encourage literacy across content areas and promote cognitive development for all their students, and-above all-provides hope that the literacy crisis...
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English
Description
"Describes the financial aid opportunities at over three thousand two- and four-year colleges, universities, and technical schools, accompanied by worksheets, tables, and step-by-step directions. The ultimate goal of this book is to connect students to colleges that match both their needs and their means."
Language
English
Description
"Describes the financial aid opportunities at over three thousand two- and four-year colleges, universities, and technical schools, accompanied by worksheets, tables, and step-by-step directions. The ultimate goal of this book is to connect students to colleges that match both their needs and their means."