Table of Contents
About This Book.
About the Author.
Acknowledgments.
Foreword (Deborah Meier).
Introduction.
PART I: THE CONTEXT OF LEARNING FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW.
- Education for the 21st Century.
- Addressing the Landscape of Assessment Policies and Practice.
- To Sum Up.
- Differentiated Instruction Starts with Differentiated Assessments.
- A Window into Learners Abilities: Adolescents with Learning Challenges.
- The Demographic Landscape of Assessment Policies and Practice.
- A Differentiated Assessment System: A Sociocultural Approach.
- A Comprehensive Assessment System in a High School in the Bronx.
- To Sum Up.
- Notes.
PART II CASE STUDIES OF DIFFERENTIATED ASSESSMENT.
- Differentiated Assessment In Middle Schools.
- Case Studies in Developing Differentiated Assessment.
- Grant as Catalyst: A Community Designs a System of Differentiated Assessment.
- Leaders' Lessons: Looking at Students Work Makes Learning Visible.
- Building a Collaborative Culture: Key Practices Structure Assessment Conversations.
- Differentiated Assessment Guides Instruction: Portfolio Rubrics as Common Criteria.
- Institutionalize Portfolios for Grading and Conferences: Celebrating Student Work.
- Leaders' Stories: Identifying the Assets of Diverse Groups of Language Learners.
- Teachers in Middle School Create Classroom Assessment Systems: Setting Standards.
- Teacher's Classroom Assessment Is Based on "Sitting Beside" the Language Learner.
- How Portfolios Help Teachers Become Researchers of Individuals.
- Profiles and Portfolios: The Window into the Learner's Mind and Potential.
- Reaching Every Language Learner Personally: Creating a Profile.
- Good Seeds Grow in Good Cultures: Teachers Create a Portfolio Culture for Learning.
- To Sum Up.
- Notes.
- Differentiated Assessment in High Schools.
- Why Differentiate the Assessment? A Story of High Schools' Challenges.
- Differentiating Learners: Knowing the Adults and Children as a Community.
- Differentiated Assessment: Developing a Classroom Assessment System.
- Digital Portfolios Introduced as Personal Stories: Windows into the Learner's Mind.
- Guidelines for Classroom Assessment: Creating/Maintaining Portfolios.
- To Sum Up.
- Classroom Assessment with Digital Portfolios.
- Differentiated Assessment: Seeing the Learner's Abilities.
- Making Learning Visible with Portfolios.
- Portfolio Assessment at New Day Academy.
- New Faculty Getting Started with Digital Portfolios.
- The Class and the Challenges.
- Students and Teacher at Work.
- To Sum Up.
- Note.
PART III SEEING STUDENTS ASSETS: DIFFERENTIATED ASSESSMENT GUIDES INSTRUCTION.
- Differentiated Assessment, Instruction, and Accommodation.
- Knowing Your Learner: Understand Cultural and Linguistic Assets.
- Knowing Your Learners: Building a Comprehensive Assessment System.
- Using the Student's Assets: Sociocultural Framework to Differentiate Assessment.
- Classroom Performance Assessments.
- Differentiated Instruction: Knowing Your Learners and Finding Their Strengths.
- Creating a Student Profile: A Teacher's Story of Differentiated Instruction.
- Differentiated Instruction: Knowing Individual Learners' Multiple Intelligences.
- To Sum Up.
- Notes.
- How Differentiated Assessment Guides Instruction.
- Knowing Your Learners: Using Portfolios to Differentiate Assessment.
- Multiple Entry Points to Instruction: The Physical Environment Supports Learning.
- Anchor Activities and Flexible Grouping.
- Differentiating Instruction: Lesson and Unit Development for Secondary Students.
- Voices from the Field: Differentiated Instruction at the High School Level.
- Differentiated Curriculum: Meeting the Needs of All Learners.
- Implementing Differentiated Assessment and Instruction in the Classroom.
- To Sum Up.
Appendix: DVD Table of Contents.
References and Resources.
Index.
How to Use the DVD-ROM.
System Requirements.
Using the DVD-ROM with Windows.
In Case of Trouble.