CliftonStrengths for Students -- which includes a unique access code to take the CliftonStrengths assessment -- helps students discover and develop their strengths and reach their potential.

Discover and Develop Your Strengths -- in College and Beyond

College is a chance for you to start fresh. You get to learn and grow in ways that will amaze you. You get to write your own story.

So what do you want your college story to be?

As a student, you have the opportunity every day to search for patterns in your actions, learn from them and use them to make the most of your life experiences, now and in the future. To do that, you need a solid understanding of where and when you're at your best: your strengths.

CliftonStrengths for Students will help you discover and develop your strengths -- and reach your full potential.

This book includes an access code to take the CliftonStrengths assessment. After you take the assessment, you'll get a list of your top five themes of talent, which are the themes you lead with. Once you know what your leading themes are, you can begin to turn them into strengths.

CliftonStrengths for Students will also give you suggestions for developing and using your strengths in college and in the real world. If you understand and apply your strengths, your college journey -- and the rest of your life -- will be happier, more fulfilling and more successful. That's the point of developing your strengths. When you do more of what you do best, you build your life around your areas of greatness.

So let's get started. Your strengths journey begins here!

Give Your Child an Edge on the 2025 STAAR!

Prepare them to excel in the Texas state assessments with confidence and ease

Designed by STAAR experts, the Lumos Learning 6th Grade English Language Arts Practice Workbook is crafted to boost your child's test scores by 10-15 points. Featuring hundreds of practice questions fully aligned with Texas TEKS standards, realistic online practice tests, and personalized learning paths, this workbook is tailored to your child's needs

What's New in the 2024-25 Lumos STAAR Grade 6 ELA Workbook?

Introducing Lumos AI Tutor: While completing practice tasks, your child receives personalized, guided support with step-by-step explanations, helpful hints, and tailored feedback-just like having a teacher at home! Try it today with your workbook.

Comprehensive STAAR Prep with 6th Grade ELA Practice Questions

• Expert-Designed Practice: Hundreds of carefully crafted questions aligned with the STAAR test, available in both print and digital formats, covering every essential ELA concept.
• Comprehensive Coverage: The workbook addresses 50+ ELA skills, including Developing and Sustaining Foundational language skills, Comprehension skills, Author's Purpose and craft, Inquiry & research, and Composition.
• Realistic Practice Tests: Prepare your child with two full-length practice tests that mirror the exact format and difficulty level of the STAAR exam, helping them feel confident and ready for test day.
• Personalized Study Plan: Based on your child's performance in the online practice tests, receive a personalized study plan to guide them through targeted remedial practice using the physical workbook.
• Lumos AI Tutor: Acting as a personal coach, the AI Tutor provides step-by-step guidance, hints, and real-time feedback to keep your child on track and engaged during practice.

This book offers knowledge, strategies, and tools that will help you use data effectively. Applicable to any content area, the four simple steps in this book's problem-solving model include specific questions that will guide your use of data to identify and solve problems that stand in the way of student achievement. Learn how to change instruction, curriculum, and environment to better support students.

K-12 educators and leaders will:

• Understand the proper application of data-based decision making
• Successfully utilize data to improve student learning
• Use worksheets and tools to organize data team meetings
• Become data rich and information rich
• Develop an MTSS within their school or district

Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: Foundations of Data-Based Decision Making
Chapter 1: Overview of the Multitiered System of Supports
Chapter 2: Defining Data-Based Decision Making
Part 2: Data-Based Decision Making at the Systems Level
Chapter 3: Data-Based Decision Making at the Schoolwide Level
Chapter 4: Data-Based Decision Making at Tier 1
Part 3: Data-Based Decision Making at the Student Level
Chapter 5: Data-Based Decision Making at Tier 2 for Groups of Students
Chapter 6: Data-Based Decision Making at Tier 3 for Individual Students
Epilogue
References
Index

How can we . . .

• Help students see themselves in a more positive, confident, and personally fulfilling light?
• Cultivate the conditions for agency and equity in our classrooms and schools so all learners can thrive?
• Shift education so that our students become more empowered, more competent, and more compassionate young people?

Trevor MacKenzie takes another deep dive into inquiry as he examines the role of assessment in education through the lens of co-designing and co-constructing with students. In Inquiry Mindset: Assessment Edition, he outlines the beliefs, values, and frameworks that allow teachers to scaffold assessment infused with student voice, understanding, and autonomy.

Inquiry Mindset: Assessment Edition offers practical ways to . . .

• Co-design assessment with your students to create both a sense of belonging and ownership over learning in the classroom.
• Establish greater clarity and a deeper understanding for your students in how they'll be assessed.
• Positively impact achievement and scores as well as your students' sense of self and personal responsibility and autonomy.

Give your learners an authentic seat at the assessment table!

If you value inquiry and seek to develop reflective, self-directed students, get this book. It is brimming with advice and seasoned with soul. Your students will thank you.

-Jay McTighe, coauthor of the Understanding by Design(R) framework

I work with schools around the world to help them redesign and align their curriculum and assessment, and this is a book I'll be recommending to those schools from now on. It's a perfect starting point for the work educators need to do to make assessment authentic, meaningful, and powerful.

-Alexis Wiggins, teacher, author of The Best Class You Never Taught

Data Wise, Revised and Expanded Edition presents a continuous, sustainable process that allows school leaders to harness classroom metrics to inform educational practice.

At its core, the Data Wise method fosters effective collaboration among educators, enabling teams to study a wide range of evidence and then use what they learn to enrich school culture and climate and ensure that each student thrives.

Kathryn Parker Boudett, Elizabeth A. City, and Richard J. Murnane offer clear guidance for enacting all stages of the Data Wise improvement process and for integrating data inquiry into long-term institutional practice. They begin with actions that lay the groundwork for collaboration: advancing assessment literacy among contributors, building productive professional learning communities, and identifying targets for change. They continue with advice on evaluating progress and boosting accountability.

Throughout the book, the authors recommend practical tools and proven practices, such as the plus/delta protocol and the ACE Habits of Mind (focusing on action, collaboration, and evidence), that help school leaders optimize the quality of meetings, especially those in which educators analyze data. They also provide tips for how to make best use of developments in education and technology, from Common Core State Standards to online collaboration tools.

The field-tested strategies of the Data Wise improvement process have been used to great success in schools around the world, showing that careful examination of test scores, classroom data, and other educational evaluations can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations and transformations.

Properly crafted and individually tailored feedback on student work boosts student achievement across subjects and grades. In this updated and expanded second edition of her best-selling book, Susan M. Brookhart offers enhanced guidance and three lenses for considering the effectiveness of feedback: (1) does it conform to the research, (2) does it offer an episode of learning for the student and teacher, and (3) does the student use the feedback to extend learning? In this comprehensive guide for teachers at all levels, you will find information on every aspect of feedback, including

• Strategies to uplift and encourage students to persevere in their work.
• How to formulate and deliver feedback that both assesses learning and extends instruction.
• When and how to use oral, written, and visual as well as individual, group, or whole-class feedback.
• A concise and updated overview of the research findings on feedback and how they apply to today's classrooms.

In addition, the book is replete with examples of good and bad feedback as well as rubrics that you can use to construct feedback tailored to different learners, including successful students, struggling students, and English language learners.

The vast majority of students will respond positively to feedback that shows you care about them and their learning. Whether you teach young students or teens, this book is an invaluable resource for guaranteeing that the feedback you give students is engaging, informative, and, above all, effective.

Certification Specialists has been helping teachers become New York State certified since 2001. We provide our services to individuals as well as the New York City Department of Education and the City University of New York.

This guide is designed to assist candidates who are certifying to become Special Education educators (grades B-12). Our guide includes practice problems for all aspects of the test. Introductory problems review concepts in each subarea, and four practice tests give you the opportunity to see your progress using mixed reviews that mimic the test. Detailed answer explanations have been refined based on our extensive experience building these skills with institutional and private clients.

Certification Specialists is a boutique test preparation company that specializes in teacher certification. Our materials are developed by teachers, for teachers, and are based on extensive research of these exams.

Certification Specialists has been helping teachers become New York State certified since 2001. We provide our services to individuals as well as the New York City Department of Education and the City University of New York. This guide is designed to assist candidates who are certifying to become Early Childhood educators (grades B-2). Our guide includes practice problems for all aspects of the test. Introductory problems review foundational skills, and three practice tests give you the opportunity to see your progress using mixed reviews that mimic the test. Detailed answer explanations have been refined based on our extensive experience building these skills with institutional and private clients.

Assessment is an essential part of teaching and learning, but too often it leads to misleading conclusions--sometimes with dire consequences for students. How can educators improve assessment practices so that the results are accurate, meaningful, informative, and fair?

Educator and best-selling author Myron Dueck draws from his firsthand experience and his work with districts around the world to provide a simple but profound answer: put student voice and choice at the center of the process.

In this engaging and well-researched book, Dueck reveals troubling issues related to traditional approaches and offers numerous examples of educators at all levels who are transforming assessment by using tools and methods that engage and empower students. He also shares surprising revelations about the nature of memory and learning that speak to the need for rethinking how we measure student understanding and achievement.

Readers will find sound advice and detailed guidance on how to

* Share and cocreate precise learning targets,
* Develop student-friendly rubrics linked to standards,
* Involve students in ongoing assessment procedures,
* Replace flawed grading systems with ones that better reflect what students know and can do, and
* Design structures for students' self-reporting on their progress in learning.

Inspired by the origins of the word assessment--derived from the Latin for to sit beside--Dueck urges educators to discard old habits and instead work with students as partners in assessment. For those who do, the effort is rewarding and the benefits are significant

Group work is a staple of the modern classroom, but it can be difficult to get students engaged and working together effectively. Connie Hamilton provides 11 proven strategies for designing and managing student collaborative teams, including:

• Design student groups so they are all engaged and contribute to the team's learning. Use a variety of grouping strategies to ensure that all students have the opportunity to participate and contribute.
• Accommodate lessons to help introverts be more comfortable in social learning tasks. Give introverts opportunities to contribute in ways that are comfortable for them, such as writing or presenting their work individually.
• Foster productive listening and questioning to elevate student talk. Teach students how to listen attentively and ask clarifying questions.
• Develop activities that encourage self-awareness and allow students to learn from resources and each other and depend less on you. Give students opportunities to reflect on their own learning and to learn from each other.
• Set up protocols that support interdependence and student ownership of their learning. Create a culture of collaboration in your classroom and teach students how to work together effectively.
• Accurately assess individual student's content knowledge, group communication and collaboration skills. Use a variety of assessment strategies to track student progress and to provide feedback on their group work.

With these strategies, you can create a classroom where students are engaged, accountable, and cooperative.

Feedback is arguably the most critical and powerful aspect of teaching and learning. Yet, there remains a paradox: why is feedback so powerful and why is it so variable? It is this paradox which Visible Learning: Feedback aims to unravel and resolve.

Combining research excellence, theory and vast teaching expertise, this book covers the principles and practicalities of feedback, including:

• the variability of feedback,
• the importance of surface, deep and transfer contexts,
• student to teacher feedback,
• peer to peer feedback,
• the power of within lesson feedback and manageable post-lesson feedback.

With numerous case-studies, examples and engaging anecdotes woven throughout, the authors also shed light on what creates an effective feedback culture and provide the teaching and learning structures which give the best possible framework for feedback.

Visible Learning: Feedback brings together two internationally known educators and merges Hattie's world-famous research expertise with Clarke's vast experience of classroom practice and application, making this book an essential resource for teachers in any setting, phase or country.

This updated edition of Focused Observations will help early childhood educators connect observation and documentation to appropriate assessment and curriculum related to early learning guidelines.

Intentional teaching begins with focused observations and systematic documentation of children's learning and development. This book explains why observation is one of the best methods to get to know each child well, track progress, and plan individualized curriculum. It also provides tools and techniques to help you strengthen your observations, create portfolios with rich documentation, and support each child. You will also learn how to share your findings with families and grow as an observer through review and reflection activities.

Learn answers to common questions about observation, including
Why should I use observation in my classroom?
What does effective observation and documentation look like?
How do I fit observation in so that it doesn't take away from teaching and interacting with children?
How do observation and documentation work with early learning guidelines?

An interactive CD-ROM with nineteen vignettes of children in action provide opportunities to practice observing children and capturing what you see.

Gaye Gronlund is an early childhood consultant who trains educators, administrators, and policy makers across the country. She is a well-known keynote speaker and staff development presenter and the author of six Redleaf Press books. Gaye holds a master's degree in adult learning and early childhood education.

Marlyn James is the early childhood program director and the education department chair at Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell, Montana. She presents at local, state, and national conferences and coauthored Early Learning Standards and Staff Development with Gaye Gronlund. Marlyn holds a master's degree in human development.

La planificación y la evaluación son dos funciones básicas del docente. Instrumentos de trabajo y mediadores entre el aprendizaje y la enseñanza. Planificar es reflexionar acerca de la práctica docente y el instrumento de trabajo más importante para el profesor. La planificación debe ser la forma en la que el docente se identifica con su labor, la guía con la que trabaja, su herramienta de trabajo. Sostener una concepción constructivista del aprendizaje, una concepción dialéctica del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje, implica tomar decisiones sobre los modos de trabajar en el aula, determinadas maneras de pensar las estrategias didácticas que se implementarán y, también, por lo tanto, formas concretas de pensar la planificación de esas estrategias didácticas.

La planificación no es un listado de contenidos, ejercicios y actividades para el alumno, es realizar una reflexión acerca de cómo enseñamos y cómo aprenden nuestros alumnos determinados contenidos a través de una serie de proyectos y actividades que se realizan para cumplir los objetivos estipulados. La evaluación, instancia permanente en el proceso educativo, nos otorga información útil para revisar nuestras propias estrategias didácticas y las estrategias de aprendizaje de nuestros alumnos. Un libro básico para aquellos docentes interesados en mejorar su práctica diaria, pues los resultados escolares de sus alumnos dependerán, en gran parte, de la forma en la que se hayan diseñado las propuestas y de cómo se evalúen éstas.

HOMO SAPIENS EDICIONES ARGENTINA.

Este libro contiene el desarrollo de los siguientes temas:

⦁La planificación.
⦁La evaluación.
⦁Los fundamentos psicopedagógicos.

Con este libro usted podrá aprender conocer más sobre estrategias didácticas.

Compre ya este libro y obtenga obtenga herramientas para planificar y evaluar!

Tags: educación, alumnos, formación docente, evaluación, didáctica, enseñanza, aprendizaje, planificación, pedagogía.

In the second edition of this pivotal work by Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic, you will discover updated and improved resources to use formative data to support higher levels of student learning. Data-driven techniques and new tools will guide you in improving collaboration and student engagement throughout the assessment process. Teams can use the ideas, templates, and protocols in this practitioner-friendly resource.

K-12 educators will:

• Identify successful assessment tools for implementation
• Understand the role of assessments in advancing student learning
• Reflect on assessment processes and the standards driving instruction
• Access a wide variety of assessment designs and strategies for guiding collaboration
• Utilize data-driven jump-start resources and templates that suit their teams' needs

Contents:
Foreword by Robert Eaker
Introduction
Chapter 1: Getting Started as a Collaborative Team
Chapter 2: Setting the Stage for Common Formative Assessments
Chapter 3: Essential Standards--Determining Priorities for Student Learning
Chapter 4: Achieving Collective Clarity With the Unwrapping Process
Chapter 5: Designing Quality Common Formative Assessments
Chapter 6: Going Deeper--Advanced Processes for Designing Assessments
Chapter 7: Now What? Using Data to Make a Difference
Chapter 8: Building Student Self-Efficacy in Learning
Chapter 9: Strengthening and Sustaining the Work
Appendix: Tools for Teams
References and Resources
Index

Revolutionize the walkthrough to focus on the endgame of teaching: student learning. Authors Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart present the proven practice of formative walkthroughs that ask and answer questions that are specific to what the student is learning and doing. Learn the value of having the observer examine the lesson from the student's point of view and seek evidence of seven key learning components: * A worthwhile lesson * A learning target * A performance of understanding * Look-fors, or success criteria * Formative feedback * Student self-assessment * Effective questioning Drawing upon their research and extensive work with K-12 teachers and administrators, Moss and Brookhart delve into the learning target theory of action that debuted in Learning Targets: Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today's Lesson and show you how to develop a schoolwide collaborative culture that enhances the learning of teachers, administrators, coaches, and students. They present detailed examples of how formative walkthroughs work across grade levels and subject areas, and provide useful templates that administrators and coaches can use to get started now. Grounded in the beliefs that schools improve when educators improve and that the best evidence of improvement comes from what we see students doing to learn in every lesson, every day, Formative Classroom Walkthroughs offers a path to improvement that makes sense and makes a difference.

While much research has revealed which assessment practices have the most positive impact on student achievement and instruction, out-of-date, unproductive practices, which students find disengaging and disheartening, still persist. Discover how to use the power of assessment to instill hope, efficacy, and achievement in your students. With this research-based resource, you'll explore six essential tenets of assessment--assessment purpose, communication of assessment results, accurate interpretation, assessment architecture, instructional agility, and student investment--that will help deepen your understanding of assessment to not only meet standards but also enhance students' academic success and self-fulfillment.

Benefits

• Interpret the research-based tenets of assessment that are necessary to maximize all students' learning.
• Gain advice and strategies for immediately acting on the six essential assessment tenets, including how to communicate assessment results to give feedback that produces constructive responses.
• Discover why it is vital that assessment practices build students' and teachers' hope, efficacy, and achievement.
• Consider scenarios that illustrate traditional, outmoded assessment practices and revised scenarios that feature practices that better reflect modern assessment needs.
• Reflect on questions related to the content of each chapter and study next steps that teaching teams can take.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement

Chapter 2: Assessment Purpose

Chapter 3: Communication of Assessment Results

Chapter 4: Accurate Interpretation

Chapter 5: Assessment Architecture

Chapter 6: Instructional Agility

Chapter 7: Student Investment

References

Index

This book is designed to assist school leaders responsible for writing teacher and support staff evaluations. The phrases and statements will assist in formulating ideas and reactions describing observed behavior within a variety of professional settings.This book is intended to stimulate thinking and translate what was observed into possible performance expressions which will have an impact on the teaching or support services environment.

Grading is one of the most hotly debated topics in education, and grading practices themselves are largely based on tradition, instinct, or personal history or philosophy. But to be effective, grading policies and practices must be based on trustworthy research evidence.

Enter this book: a review of 100-plus years of grading research that presents the broadest and most comprehensive summary of research on grading and reporting available to date, with clear takeaways for learning and teaching. Edited by Thomas R. Guskey and Susan M. Brookhart, this indispensable guide features thoughtful, thorough dives into the research from a distinguished team of scholars, geared to a broad range of stakeholders, including teachers, school leaders, policymakers, and researchers. Each chapter addresses a different area of grading research and describes how the major findings in that area might be leveraged to improve grading policy and practice. Ultimately, Guskey and Brookhart identify four themes emerging from the research that can guide these efforts:

- Start with clear learning goals,
- Focus on the feedback function of grades,
- Limit the number of grade categories, and
- Provide multiple grades that reflect product, process, and progress criteria.

By distilling the vast body of research evidence into meaningful, actionable findings and strategies, this book is the jump-start all stakeholders need to build a better understanding of what works--and where to go from here.

Assessing Student Learning is a standard reference for college faculty and administrators, and the third edition of this highly regarded book continues to offer comprehensive, practical, plainspoken guidance. The third edition adds a stronger emphasis on making assessment useful; greater attention to building a culture in which assessment is used to inform important decisions; an enhanced focus on the many settings of assessment, especially general education and co-curricula; a new emphasis on synthesizing evidence of student learning into an overall picture of an integrated learning experience; new chapters on curriculum design and assessing the hard-to-assess; more thorough information on organizing assessment processes; new frameworks for rubric design and setting standards and targets; and many new resources. Faculty, administrators, new and experienced assessment practitioners, and students in graduate courses on higher education assessment will all find this a valuable addition to their bookshelves.

Explore the why, what, and how of formative assessments in the classroom

In The Formative Assessment Handbook: Resources to Improve Learning Outcomes for All Students, the authors, with over 40 years of cumulative classroom, school, and district and state-level experience, deliver a crucial toolkit of ready-to-go ideas, activities, and reproducibles that make it easy to implement formative assessment quickly, effectively, and efficiently. You'll also learn what formative assessment is, what it looks like, and why it's a critical component to student achievement.

The authors explain how to set your classroom up for success and develop & select learning targets and success criteria to create a clear pathway and roadmap for your formative assessments. You'll also find:

• Up-to-date research supporting the use of formative assessment in the classroom
• Instructions for properly utilizing pre-assessments
• Collaborative routines you can implement during instruction
• Discussions of dialogic teaching and dialectic synergy

An indispensable resource for both new and veteran K-12 educators, The Formative Assessment Handbook will also prove invaluable to administrators and educational coaches.