Assess classroom learning and improve instruction with comfort and ease!

Some of the key topics covered:

• Determining goals, targets, and objectives
• Designing assessments that evolve from instruction
• Choosing authentic assessments and projects
• Using multiple choice, essays, and reports
• Preparing students for assessment
• Scoring and communicating results
• Planning parent-teacher conferences
• Assessing students with special needs

This is a comprehensive but accessible guide to increase effectiveness in the classroom. An essential resource for both experienced and novice teachers who want to gain confidence about the assessment process.

Lisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was once a way of escaping her insecurity and negativity became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload.  Girl Walks Out of a Bar is Smith's darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story of her formative years, the decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. Smith describes how her spiraling circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication, nurturing an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the façade of success lies the reality of addiction.

Assess classroom learning and improve instruction with comfort and ease!

Some of the key topics covered:

• Determining goals, targets, and objectives
• Designing assessments that evolve from instruction
• Choosing authentic assessments and projects
• Using multiple choice, essays, and reports
• Preparing students for assessment
• Scoring and communicating results
• Planning parent-teacher conferences
• Assessing students with special needs

This is a comprehensive but accessible guide to increase effectiveness in the classroom. An essential resource for both experienced and novice teachers who want to gain confidence about the assessment process.