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This book is designed for the career teacher interested in designing positive learning environments. For the teacher facing challenges in the classroom, this essential text goes far beyond background experiences and training programs in providing knowledge with an impact. Planning, organizing, and facilitating learning are all covered to enable teachers to better enable students. This book will prove especially important to the new teacher in the field.
What is a rubric? How can I implement them as evaluation tools? How can I make better use of my existing rubrics? This bestseller answers these questions, providing you with all the necessary information to apply rubrics_from the classroom to the administrative office. Each chapter stands alone as a practical reference guide. The authors cover curriculum evaluation, student input into rubrics, cross-curricular approaches, rubric categories, specialty rubrics, and teacher evaluation. Easily adaptable samples, as well as plenty of descriptive scenarios, will give educators the information and confidence they need to create, utilize, and evaluate rubrics.
If you're looking for a powerful tool to enhance your students' research efforts, then this is the resource for you! Using a respected model of group investigation as a guide, this book provides proved, ready-to-use ways to help your children stay focused, meet deadlines and complete their required assignments.
Outlining a robust strategy for sustainable city-regions that has emerged from over two-and-a-half decades of theoretical and practical work, ‘The City as Fulcrum of Global Sustainability’ cuts through the received wisdom and popular misunderstanding surrounding sustainability to demonstrate how global problems can best be addressed at the local-regional scale. Featuring an array of case studies – focusing on both strong and weak examples of sustainable cities – the text delivers a bold message to the urban planners of tomorrow: only the road less traveled holds real promise of creating sustainable city-regions, with this journey requiring the balanced guidance of ecological and technological conviviality.
Dupuis (head of instructional services and the Doe and Moffitt Libraries, U. of California at Berkeley) presents 14 papers that examine the full process of creating Web-based library instruction from short tutorials to full online courses. The papers emphasize instructional design and goals rather than specific technologies and software. Three sections address planning and management, evaluation and assessment, and design and development.