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Discover a clear path for creating and utilizing high-quality proficiency scales. Through this practical handbook, you will gain access to a comprehensive toolkit of strategies, methods, and examples for a variety of content areas and grade levels. The author also outlines an array of accommodations and modifications to support students with disabilities, English learners, and gifted and talented students. Benefits: Understand how to create and use proficiency scales to clearly frame classroom instruction and assessments. Learn how to write high-quality proficiency scales and review how to enrich student learning opportunities. Recognize the various ways teachers, students, and parents can use proficiency scales. Access rubrics, criteria checklists, and pacing guides that you can use in concert with proficiency scales to provide valuable feedback to students. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: The What and Why of Proficiency Scales Chapter 2: Proficiency Scale Development Chapter 3: Score 4.0—Complex Content Chapter 4: The Use of Proficiency Scales in the Classroom Chapter 5: Scales and Related Tools Chapter 6: Using Scales With Exceptional Learners Chapter 7: Scales for Behaviors That Promote Academic Success Epilogue Appendix A: Example Scales Appendix B: Common Scale Templates With Examples Appendix C: Scale Development Checklists Appendix D: Score 4.0 Examples Appendix E: Scales With Sample Assessments References Index

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With foreword by Robert J. Marzano When teachers adopt standards-based learning, students take ownership of their education and achievement soars. Written specifically for K-12 teachers, this resource details a sequential approach for connecting curriculum, instruction, assessment methods, and feedback through standards-based education. The authors provide practical advice, real-world examples, and answers to frequently asked questions designed to support you through this important transition. Implement standards-based grading, instruction, and curriculum in your classroom and school: Explore the theories and benefits of a standards-based curriculum and become familiar with several significant paradigm shifts that will help you make a strong transition to a standards-based classroom. Explore ways to shift your thinking about teaching and lesson plans in order to better understand content as a vehicle for the achievement of standards. Learn how to develop proficiency scales that will offer guidance in teaching to standards and establishing informative classroom assessment for student learning. Discover new styles of instruction, educational assessment, feedback, and curriculum building that are well suited to standards-based education. Understand how to develop student ownership through the setting of goals, and access free downloadable reproducibles available with this book. Contents: About the Authors About Marzano Research Foreword by Robert J. Marzano Introduction Chapter 1: Planning Instruction With Proficiency Scales Chapter 2: Instructing With Proficiency Scales Chapter 3: Setting Goals and Tracking Progress Chapter 4: Administering Quality Classroom Assessments and Figuring Grades Chapter 5: Teaching Exceptional Students Chapter 6: Communicating Grades Epilogue Appendix A: Frequently Asked Questions Appendix B: Creation of an Elementary Unit Plan References and Resources Index