So What Do They Really Know?

Author: Cris Tovani
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003844154
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
So What Do They Really Know? Cris Tovani explores the complex issue of monitoring, assessing, and grading students' thinking and performance with fairness and fidelity. Like all teachers, Cris struggles to balance her student-centered instruction with school system mandates. Her recommendations are realistic and practical; she understands that what isn't manageable isn't sustainable. Cris describes the systems and structure she uses in her own classroom and shows teachers how to use assessments to monitor student growth and provide targeted feedback that enables students to master content goals. She also shares ways to bring students into the assessment cycle so they can monitor their own learning, maximizing motivation and engagement. So What Do They Really Know? includes a wealth of information: Lessons from Cris's classroomTemplates showing how teachers can use the workshop model to assess and differentiate instructionStudent work, including samples from linguistically diverse learners, struggling readers, and college-bound seniorsAnchor charts of student thinkingIdeas on how to give feedbackGuidelines that explain how conferring is different from monitoringSuggestions for assessing learning and differentiating instruction during conferencesAdvice for managing ongoing assessmentCris's willingness to share her own struggles continues to be a hallmark of her work. Teachers will recognize their own students and the challenges they face as they join Cris on the journey to figure out how to raise student achievement.

The Last Lecture

Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

The First 20 Hours

Author: Josh Kaufman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101623047
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less? Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare? Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of practicing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . . In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By completing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. Kaufman personally field-tested the methods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard keyboard, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the simple techniques he teaches: Define your target performance level: Figure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better. Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcomponents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first. Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice. Create fast feedback loops: Getting accurate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve. Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chainsaws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.

How Well Does a Man Really Know His Woman?

Author: Mark Warren
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434935191
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
This book is about today¿s relationships. The author discusses how a man and a woman are supposed to treat each other, how a woman is supposed to act, and how the relationship can turn into a marriage. Other topics focus on how not to let your friends come between you and your partner and about how a woman doesn¿t have to settle for just anything. Today¿s men and women have to read this book to improve their relationship and to become a better man or a better woman. Read this book and learn how to improve your relationship if there is something wrong. This book will serve as your guide to your relationship or marriage and how not to walk from each other: fight for your real and loving relationship. The author wrote this book because it is very important to know what is wrong with young relationships.

Do You Really Know Me?

Author: Darren Fry
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728388392
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description
This book is giving you a fairly detailed blow by blow rendition into my life, delusions, and episodes of my mental health state. I know you will enjoy it! If it is not for my wonderful family and my fantastic friends along my torrid journey, I don’t think I would be here today to tell you my story, so sit back and ready my story. And if I can save three or four lives by someone reading this and getting inspired and helping someone get well from this condition, I have achieved something in life. I have a great wife who has kept my feet firmly on the ground; she is my rock. Thank you.

When Can You Trust the Experts?

Author: Daniel T. Willingham
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118233271
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
Clear, easy principles to spot what's nonsense and what's reliable Each year, teachers, administrators, and parents face a barrage of new education software, games, workbooks, and professional development programs purporting to be "based on the latest research." While some of these products are rooted in solid science, the research behind many others is grossly exaggerated. This new book, written by a top thought leader, helps everyday teachers, administrators, and family members—who don't have years of statistics courses under their belts—separate the wheat from the chaff and determine which new educational approaches are scientifically supported and worth adopting. Author's first book, Why Don't Students Like School?, catapulted him to superstar status in the field of education Willingham's work has been hailed as "brilliant analysis" by The Wall Street Journal and "a triumph" by The Washington Post Author blogs for The Washington Post and Brittanica.com, and writes a column for American Educator In this insightful book, thought leader and bestselling author Dan Willingham offers an easy, reliable way to discern which programs are scientifically supported and which are the equivalent of "educational snake oil."

Do I Really Know You?

Author: Sheryl Browne
Publisher: Bookouture
ISBN: 1803143282
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
She’s your oldest friend and you tell each other everything. So you’d know if she’d done something terrible, wouldn’t you? Maddie and Kiara have been best friends since they met on their first day at university. They have always shared everything with each other, everything except one big secret, which Kiara knows would tear them apart… When the police knock on Maddie’s front door as she and husband Nick are getting ready for the morning school run, she’s not expecting to hear what they have to tell her. Kiara is dead. And when Kiara’s death is ruled as suicide, Maddie can’t believe it. She knew everything about her best friend, didn’t she? Walking into the plush apartment Kiara only recently moved into, Maddie soon discovers that her best friend’s life wasn’t as happy as she thought. Is that blood on the kitchen floor? And why didn’t Kiara tell her about secret meetings with a man Maddie knows well? What Maddie learns next has her questioning who her best friend really was. And now she’s discovered Kiara’s web of lies, could her own life be in danger? Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl and The Wife, Do I Really Know You? is a gripping new psychological thriller from bestselling author Sheryl Browne. Once you start reading, you won’t be able to stop! What readers are saying about Sheryl Browne: ‘Oh my goodness I can finally breathe!! What an amazing, addictive, totally gripping read this was… you will not be able to put it down!!!’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ‘I read it in less than a day, I HAD to know what happened, to who and when!!!!... 10/10.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ‘Phew... Goosebumps, shivers down my spine and the hairs on the back of my neck were standing on end, that’s how good this book is.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ‘Woah! This book was crazy good, talk about mind games! Wow, I feel out of breath after reading this! Absolutely sucked me in, I was totally captivated and couldn't put this one down… an incredible read… blew my mind.’ Bonnie’s Book Talk, 5 stars ‘WOW! Grabbed me from the BIG bam in the beginning all the way to the last word! Twisted, twisty, dark, compulsive rollercoaster of a story!… Read this book!!’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ‘Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! What a rollercoaster of a ride that story was, bloody brilliant!… If you enjoyed The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl then this story is for you!’ Between The Pages Book Club, 5 stars ‘I'm speechless... it is just that amazing.’ Rachel’s Random Reads, 5 stars ‘Clear some room in your diary, you will not want to put this down!!’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ‘Absolutely amazing. Twisted, thrilling and chilling. This book is one you will pick up and not want to put down. A five plus star!’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ‘Stunning… Gripping, tense and suspenseful… a heart-in-mouth and pulse-racing realistic thriller… I loved it.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ‘An unputdownable read. I loved that I had no idea what the author had in store next for me.’ By The Letter Book Reviews, 5 stars

You Don't Really Know Me

Author: T. E. Apter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057584
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
Through case studies and conversations between mothers and daughters, Apter shows mothers how to interpret the meanings behind a daughter's angry words and how to emerge from arguments with a new closeness.

Can I Really Know Jesus?

Author: Cook Communications Ministries
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 9780781440844
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Custom Curriculum allows you to address the issues that students face in todayrsquo;s world in a way that can be fully customized to be a perfect fit for your group.

Do You Really Know How Much Daddy-God Abba Loves You?

Author: Michael Charles Gingrass
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1644681218
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 51

Book Description
Abba Daddy (God) has already done all He is going to do. Our Lord did it all two thousand years ago. The Father loved you while you were still a sinner (Ephesians 1:4). Stop asking and begging or thinking the lies from Satan, God is not mad at you! Position yourself by Faith in response to what our Lord God already has done for us. Rest in the finished work of Jesus.