Cultural Proficiency

Cultural Proficiency
Author: Randall B. Lindsey
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2009-06-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412963621

This powerful third edition offers fresh approaches that enable school leaders to engage in effective interactions with students, educators, and the communities they serve.

Street Data

Street Data
Author: Shane Safir
Publisher: Corwin
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2021-02-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1071812661

Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of the focus being on "fixing" and "filling" academic gaps, we must envision and rebuild the system from the student up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential. Street data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing. By breaking down street data fundamentals: what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide a school or district’s equity journey, Safir and Dugan offer an actionable framework for school transformation. Written for educators and policymakers, this book · Offers fresh ideas and innovative tools to apply immediately · Provides an asset-based model to help educators look for what’s right in our students and communities instead of seeking what’s wrong · Explores a different application of data, from its capacity to help us diagnose root causes of inequity, to its potential to transform learning, and its power to reshape adult culture Now is the time to take an antiracist stance, interrogate our assumptions about knowledge, measurement, and what really matters when it comes to educating young people.

A Guide to Curriculum Mapping

A Guide to Curriculum Mapping
Author: Jennifer M. Harrison
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2023-10-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000970248

A Guide to Curriculum Mapping synthesizes teaching, learning, and assessment research with an innovative, inclusive, and comprehensive approach to effective curriculum design that centers student learning and evidence-informed continuous improvement. A Guide to Curriculum Mapping offers adaptable tools, resources, and templates that readers can customize to their own institutions and programs. The authors offer ways to document, synthesize, integrate, and visually represent how learning opportunities work together—whether within courses, across degree programs, or throughout an entire college or university. The authors have presented their integrated mapping approach to acclaim at conferences for close to a decade and have tested their use in programs large and small across the US, beyond systematically applying them at their home institution, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). This book enables educators—whether faculty, chairs, deans, administrators, educational developers, staff, or assessment leaders concerned with student learning and success—to think through the clarity, organization, and alignment of their programs for improving learning using learner-centered research.

Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners

Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners
Author: Jim Cummins
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2021-09-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1800413602

Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this book, he provides a personal account of how these ideas developed and he examines the credibility of critiques they have generated, using the criteria of empirical adequacy, logical coherence, and consequential validity. These criteria of theoretical legitimacy are also applied to the evaluation of two different versions of translanguaging theory – Unitary Translanguaging Theory and Crosslinguistic Translanguaging Theory – in a way that significantly clarifies this controversial concept.

Exam Classes

Exam Classes
Author: Peter May
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1996-12-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780194372084

This popular series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, along with resource ideas and materials for the classroom. The tasks and activities are clearly presented, and offer teachers the information they need about level, time, preparation, materials, classroom management, monitoring, and follow-up activities. Each book offers up to 100 ideas, as well as variations that encourage teachers to adapt the activities to suite their individual classrooms.

Assembly Bill

Assembly Bill
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2150
Release: 1976
Genre: Bills, Legislative
ISBN:

Towards Proficiency

Towards Proficiency
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2002
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780194332576

Four practice Final Tests and a Preliminary Test for the University of Michigan ECPE (Examination for the Certificate of Proficiency in English).

A Parents' Guide to Grading and Reporting

A Parents' Guide to Grading and Reporting
Author: Matt Townsley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2023-09-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1475868030

Whether resulting from the educational fallout of the COVID-19 global pandemic or merely challenging the status quo, more schools are transitioning their grading practices away from traditional points and percentages and toward 21st century grading practices such as standards-based and proficiency-based grading. A Parents’ Guide to Grading and Reporting: Being Clear about What Matters assists parents and guardians in understanding what is involved in 21st century grading and how to become better partners with educators in efforts to understand students’ strengths and areas for improvement.

Spanish Learner Corpus Research

Spanish Learner Corpus Research
Author: Margarita Alonso-Ramos
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2016-12-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027266247

The aim of this book is to present a comprehensive picture of the current state of Spanish learner corpus research (SLCR), which makes it unique, since no other monograph has focused on collecting research dealing with learner corpora of any language other than English. In addition to an introductory appraisal of current SLCR, as well as a wake-up call reminding us that learner corpus design still needs to be improved, this volume features a selection of original studies ranging from general issues concerning learner corpora compilation to more specific aspects such as phonetic, lexical, grammatical and pragmatic features of the interlanguage of learners of Spanish, as reflected in corpus data. This volume will undoubtedly be of significant interest to researchers involved in corpus linguistics, second language acquisition research, as well as to professionals in the field of Spanish as a second language, including teachers, and creators and publishers of teaching materials.