ED 345: Effective Elementary Teacher

The Authentic Assessment Toolbox is a resource to help K-12 teachers, especially new teachers, create authentic tasks, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning. What is Authentic Assessment? defines and gives examples of authentic assessment, compares it to traditional assessment, and suggests that a combination will most likely meet teacher and student needs.

This document presents an overview of Marzano's nine essential instructional strategies.

This article presents 10 research-based principles of instruction, along with suggestions for classroom practice.

Ready-made benchmark tests cannot substitute for day-to-day formative assessment conducted by assessment-literate teachers.

Discover 33 digital tools that are free or inexpensive and help teachers implement formative assessment in their classrooms.

If you want to raise creative children, you need to know what fosters creativity. How do you intentionally encourage creativity? Plus, if you've been reading about the future work environment, you know that creativity will be essential to success.

Creativity expert, Sir Ken Robinson asserts that schools kill creativity. Just a few years in our educational system and kids say adios to their innate creative abilities -- creativity defined as creating something original and useful. Notice that creativity's definition (creating something original and useful) is not limited to the arts; it includes all disciplines.

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

A candidate for teacher licensure shall show verification of completing the standards in subparts 2 to 11 in a teacher preparation program approved under part 8700.7600. Subp. 12.

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Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner.

Strategies from K-12 schools, districts, and programs that are dramatically improving the learning process.

This RSA Animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.

Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish - and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.

Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'" A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

In May of last year, Ken Robinson-he of "Is School Killing Creativity"/TED Talk legend status-gave a brief talk on the idea of contrast, specifically the difference between who we are and how we teach. His general message was that we, as human beings, are wired for certain tendencies.

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Carol Tomlinson provides an explanation on getting started with differentiated instruction.

This infographic explains what is and what is not differentiated instruction (DI), based on Tomlinson's (2014) book, "The Differentiated Classroom, 2nd Edition".

This chapter focuses on the following essential questions: -How do the principles of backward design and differentiation look when they are used together in the planning process? -What are the potential benefits to learners of classrooms in which both models are used? -What should we expect to see in classrooms using backward design and differentiation?