Assessing 21st Century Skills

Assessing 21st Century Skills
Author: Laura Greenstein
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2012-07-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452218013

Provides K-12 classroom teachers with strategies for measuring student mastery beyond paper and pencil tests and suggests ways to diagnose learning and inform interventions in an accountable and reliable way. Included are vignettes and visual elements to help illustrate and apply the concepts.

SOAR Study Skills

SOAR Study Skills
Author: Susan Woodcock Kruger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Academic achievement
ISBN: 9780977428007

"SOAR study skills is a comprehensive program that empowers students to manage their time, schoolwork, and extra-curricular activities more efficiently."--Back cover.

Going Google

Going Google
Author: Jared J. Covili
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2016-09-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1506325297

Unique ideas for authentic, 21st-century learning! There’s no denying it, 21st Century skills are essential to prepare students for college and careers. How do you manage the avalanche of information and activities required to help students become skilled communicators and collaborators? Prepare your students for the modern workplace with this newly updated guide to Google’s latest tech tools. New chapters and a companion website include teacher vignettes, screen casts, step-by-step project tutorials, and classroom management and technology tips. Beginning and veteran K–12 teachers can quickly scan to any section for detailed guidance and practical implementation strategies. You’ll learn: Which tools help you meet 21st century skills and the new ISTE Standards for Students The latest versions of Google Classroom, Google Drive, Google Chrome, Google Earth, YouTube, and more 5 major points to consider before using each tool How to create quizzes, parent contract forms, student writing groups, and more How to use technology-related activities to facilitate creativity, promote innovation, and enhance communication skills Includes a handy glossary of tech terms. Use this engaging, skills-boosting guide to discover exactly how and why to use Google’s latest tools as part of an effective teaching strategy! "Google′s presence in our nation′s schools is a big one and is only going to increase. Jared Covili has put together an excellent guide—useful for those who are tech savvy and those who are not—for how teachers and students can use these tools for teaching and learning." Larry Ferlazzo, Advice Columnist Education Week Teacher "Jared Covili does an excellent job diving into the intricacies of Google so everyone can get the most out of the suite of apps. If you are not ′Going Google,′ you might as well just ′Ask Jeeves′ for support. " Nick Provenzano, Author of Classroom in the Cloud The Nerdy Teacher

21st Century Skills

21st Century Skills
Author: Bernie Trilling
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2012-02-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118157060

This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic-but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. The skills fall into three categories: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills. This book is filled with vignettes, international examples, and classroom samples that help illustrate the framework and provide an exciting view of twenty-first century teaching and learning. Explores the three main categories of 21st Century Skills: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills Addresses timely issues such as the rapid advance of technology and increased economic competition Based on a framework developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) The book contains a video with clips of classroom teaching. For more information on the book visit www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com.

What School Could Be

What School Could Be
Author: Ted Dintersmith
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2018-04-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 069118061X

An inspiring account of teachers in ordinary circumstances doing extraordinary things, showing us how to transform education What School Could Be offers an inspiring vision of what our teachers and students can accomplish if trusted with the challenge of developing the skills and ways of thinking needed to thrive in a world of dizzying technological change. Innovation expert Ted Dintersmith took an unprecedented trip across America, visiting all fifty states in a single school year. He originally set out to raise awareness about the urgent need to reimagine education to prepare students for a world marked by innovation--but America's teachers one-upped him. All across the country, he met teachers in ordinary settings doing extraordinary things, creating innovative classrooms where children learn deeply and joyously as they gain purpose, agency, essential skillsets and mindsets, and real knowledge. Together, these new ways of teaching and learning offer a vision of what school could be—and a model for transforming schools throughout the United States and beyond. Better yet, teachers and parents don't have to wait for the revolution to come from above. They can readily implement small changes that can make a big difference. America's clock is ticking. Our archaic model of education trains our kids for a world that no longer exists, and accelerating advances in technology are eliminating millions of jobs. But the trailblazing of many American educators gives us reasons for hope. Capturing bold ideas from teachers and classrooms across America, What School Could Be provides a realistic and profoundly optimistic roadmap for creating cultures of innovation and real learning in all our schools.

Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills

Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills
Author: Patrick Griffin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9401793956

This second volume of papers from the ATC21STM project deals with the development of an assessment and teaching system of 21st century skills. Readers are guided through a detailed description of the methods used in this process. The first volume was published by Springer in 2012 (Griffin, P., McGaw, B. & Care, E., Eds., Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills, Dordrecht: Springer). The major elements of this new volume are the identification and description of two 21st century skills that are amenable to teaching and learning: collaborative problem solving, and learning in digital networks. Features of the skills that need to be mirrored in their assessment are identified so that they can be reflected in assessment tasks. The tasks are formulated so that reporting of student performance can guide implementation in the classroom for use in teaching and learning. How simple tasks can act as platforms for development of 21st century skills is demonstrated, with the concurrent technical infrastructure required for its support. How countries with different languages and cultures participated and contributed to the development process is described. The psychometric qualities of the online tasks developed are reported, in the context of the robustness of the automated scoring processes. Finally, technical and educational issues to be resolved in global projects of this nature are outlined.

Tools for Learning

Tools for Learning
Author: Meredith D. Gall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1990
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN:

Covers how to identify important study skills and how to teach them.

Bringing Math Students Into the Formative Assessment Equation

Bringing Math Students Into the Formative Assessment Equation
Author: Susan Janssen Creighton
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015-01-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483385965

Make formative assessment work for you—and your math students! Finally, formative assessment that adds up! Bringing Math Students Into the Formative Assessment Equation is the ultimate resource for helping teachers implement formative assessment in the middle school mathematics classroom. And it’s much more than that. With this research-based, teacher-tested guide, you won’t just learn effective teaching strategies—you’ll turn your students into self-regulated learners. They’ll monitor and assess their own progress—and communicate to you about it! Features include: A clear and manageable six-aspect instructional model Detailed strategies for helping students own their successes Real-life examples from middle school mathematics teachers Useful resources and a companion website to help you implement formative assessment in your classroom Formative assessment isn’t just for teachers anymore. With the help of this essential resource, you’ll work together with your students toward a common goal of math success. "This book is outstanding. I would recommend it to any math educator. The depth of research integrated into practice is extensive and, as a result, it is the most practical book I have come across related to formative assessment and mathematics The self-regulation aspects, as well as the ownership and involvement emphasized in the book, went beyond the traditional cognitive strategies endorsed in most books." Marc Simmons, Principal Ilwaco Middle School, Ocean Beach School District, Long Beach, WA "The ideas in this book are brought to life with examples of teachers and students in the classroom. The teacher voices, comments, and quotes lend credibility and are a big component of the book’s strengths as well as the visuals and graphics." Rita Tellez, Math Coordinator Ysleta Independent School District, El Paso, TX

The 21st Century Student's Guide to Study Skills

The 21st Century Student's Guide to Study Skills
Author: Susan Mulcaire
Publisher: c21 Student Resources
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-07-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9780983690603

Text, worksheets, and activities for a comprehensive academic mindset and skillsprogram. Students explore metacognition and the process of learning,memory, and effective pre-learning strategies. Additional skills covered areactive learning and listening, note-taking, chapter outlining, test-takingskills, distance learning, critical thinking, and much more.This is the high school edition of The Middle School Student's Guide to Study Skills