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This practical guide provides easy-to-follow directions for making 30 irresistible pocket charts. Build early literacy skills with poems, songs, predictable stories, and more..
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This book offers far more than an introduction to the principles of assessment of student learning outcomes in the context of program review.

Within a clearly structured framework, it systematically shares the good practices of some forty institutions recognized by independent scholars for their improvements in teaching/learning, research, and service, to offer examples and ideas for others to learn from and adapt. While the book focuses on assessment of the teaching mission, these same practices apply equally to student affairs, service and research activities.

This book is intended for faculty, administrators and staff responsible for implementing and sustaining outcomes-based assessment program review. It aims to help them understand the "what", "why" and "how" of outcomes-based assessment program review. Rather than adopting a prescriptive approach, it provides a rich array of case studies and ideas as a basis for reflection and discussion to help institutions develop solutions that are appropriate to their own missions and cultures.

This book answers such questions as what does good outcomes-based assessment program review practice look like from an institutional perspective? How have others initiated and conducted the process? Why did they choose their particular approaches; and who is doing replicable work? It links effective assessment practices with cyclical program review so that the single process of outcomes-based assessment informs many purposes: program review, strategic planning, professional accreditation, institutional accreditation, and possibly even the assessment of general education.

This book illustrates the components of outcomes-based assessment program review, presents the criteria for identifying good practices and suggests steps for implementing a sustainable outcomes-based assessment program--and does so in a way that will engage readers in critical inquiry about what works well and what needs to be improved..
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This book intervenes dramatically in current debates about the future of English studies as business interests reach deeper into the domains of higher education By recognizing that economic pressures keenly manifest themselves in curricula, writers in this book explore possibilities for curricular reform in English in order to serve the interests of students, teachers, and local communities.

"The editors have done a superb job. They have thoroughly surveyed the literature in the raucous debate they are entering, and I believe they are quite right to assert that no previous discussant has taken quite the global view represented in this volume, attending to large issues of international complications and future consequences as well as helpful specifics of curriculum design." Patricia Bizzell, Department of English, College of the Holy Cross

"This book has a very good chance of capturing the attention of far more than the typical audience of concerned English teachers, occasional administrators, alarmed graduate students, and professional educators that such books normally reach. Anyone interested in the fate of the humanities or involved in language and literature education, whether at the secondary school or the collegiate level, should find this book challenging and instructive, and with some luck, it might also find its way on the shelves of policy makers at the local and perhaps even the national level." Giles Gunn, Professor of English and of Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Editors David B. Downing, Claude Mark Hurlbert, and Paula Mathieu have titled this collection Beyond English, Inc. to suggest that "whatever curricular innovations we imagine, we must negotiate our visions within specific institutions and against specific constraints of powerful corporate-management models commanding our educational system." As one writer notes, corporatization cannot be stopped, but it can be shaped and resisted. This book explores how.

The essays in this volume address historical and theoretical questions about the relationships among management pressures, disciplinarity, and curricular reform, including the changing role of writing, and the curricular impact of new university-wide initiatives, such as distance learning, service-learning, and vocational demands.

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Presents information and techniques instrumental in training teachers in the field of severe disabilities Includes contributing authors who are recognized experts on the topic. Explains the current technologies and practices that best work in the classroom. Provides an overall reference for teaching practices, including procedures, programs, assessment instruction and research, concerning students with severe disabilities. MARKETS: Undergraduate and graduate courses in curriculum methods for students with severe disabilities..
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The lives and music of the great composers come alive with the Composers' Specials Video Series, and this innovative, easy-to-use teacher's guide lets you create an entire curriculum for your elementary and middle school music classes The guide offers a variety of lesson plans to accompany the video stories of these world-famous composers: Bach, Handel, Rossini, Liszt, Strauss and Bizet. You and your students will enjoy dozens of creative activities, including easy-to-follow listening maps that highlight selections of music from each of the soundtrack CDs. These and many more reproducible student activities give you all you need for an entire unit of study that makes learning fun and motivational! The Composers' Specials Video Series (from Devine Entertainment) includes: Bach's Fight For Freedom, Handel's Last Chance, Rossini's Ghost, Liszt's Rhapsody, Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time, and Bizet's Dream..
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