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How does a teacher develop the skill, courage, and stamina to teach disadvantaged youth-the children given up on by virtually everyone else? In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel delivers three more reports on Lesley-Diann Jones and her class, covering January to graduation day in June. In addition to her concerns over chronic absenteeism and the future prospects of her students, Ms. Jones was forced to deal with one student who made a death...
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Over the course of this three-segment program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel tracks the progress of Lesley-Diann Jones' combined class of fourth- and fifth-graders, from opening day in September to February 1st, when the students re-took the state English exam that they had failed the previous year. Amidst Ms. Jones' efforts to help her students improve their learning and test-taking abilities, other dramas unfolded involving stubborn parents, disruptive...
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This program introduces teachers to proven assessment techniques and explains the importance of using daily assessments to guide instruction. It shows teachers how to use exit cards at the end of a class, graphic organizers, peer review, one-on-one conferencing, self-reflection, student-designed rubrics, and other assessment techniques to address the needs of different learners and help craft the next day's instruction.
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When taking a hard look at assessment policies in schools, the most obvious question is: do the grades we assign to students truly reflect the extent of their learning? And the unfortunate answer is... probably not. In studying many of the assessment policies that teachers adopt, it becomes clear that they can actually prove detrimental to student motivation and achievement. But it doesn't need to be this way. In this program, viewers will learn how...
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Presenting an overview of why and how analyzing student work can improve teaching and learning, this program goes behind the scenes of innovative schools to see how educators are using actual student work as data information to build a rich picture of student learning, improve classroom instruction, increase the rigor of teaching assignments ensuring that assignments align with standards, and to provide teachers with opportunities for ongoing, job-embedded...
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This program examines how using a range of assessment tools can help educators to accurately monitor student learning and make informed decisions that will result in improved student achievement. It discusses constructed-response items on tests and quizzes, academic prompts, and culiminating performance tasks.
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This program presents interviews with teachers and administrators on how classroom assessment directly correlates to the entire assessment process -- from students' report cards to high-stakes tests. Classroom scenes illustrate how teachers use district and state standards to design their assessments. District administrators explain how they support classroom assessment practices through professional development and other activities.
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This program explains that engaging students in the processes of self-reflection and self-evaluation deepens their learning and understanding and increases their responsibility for and ownership of the evaluation process. It considers student reflective assessments and portfolio assessments.
16) Assessment for 21st-Century Learning, Part 3 -- Transforming the 21st Century Learning Organization
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This program explores what educators can do to minimize narrow test prep approaches to assessment. It explains how standardized testing can complement the preparation of students for 21st-century learning, rather than work against it and explores ways that grading and reporting change in a 21st-century skills-focused curriculum. The program highlights the role that professional learning communities play in promoting 21st-century assessment and student...
17) The Power of Formative Assessment to Advance Learning, Strategies for Checking for Understanding
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Using scenes from elementary and secondary classrooms, this program examines how to use the formative assessment method when checking students for understanding of material.
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This program looks at the conditions and strategies necessary for teachers and administrators to successfully collaborate to unpack standards -- that is, to determine what standards suggest about what all learners should know, do, and understand as a result of instruction. It discusses unpacking of standards, use of multiple assessment tools, and scoring.
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This program takes teachers into classrooms to see how they can modify instruction based on what they learn from classroom assessments. Actual teachers explain why it is important to assess students frequently, how they decide which assessment techniques to use, and how they cope with time-management challenges.
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