Synopsis
This second edition of Portfolio Connection: Student Work Linked to Standards offers practical advice and user-friendly strategies for including portfolios in the classroom. With a focus on incorporating standards into the portfolio process, teachers will learn to collect portfolio pieces to meet standards and develop checklists and rubrics to monitor student progress.
This essential resource also includes tips for integrating technology into the portfolio process and steps for conducting student-led conferences. Perforated for convenience, each chapter concludes with a wealth of reproducibles for immediate classroom use. This book is a must for today's educators who are utilizing a portfolio system to measure students' growth and development.
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Review
"A good overview of the entire portfolio process, from its philosophical foundations to the celebration of student achievement." (Michael F. Dwyer, English Department Chair 2007-10-26)
"I am very impressed with this book because as a new teacher, I am looking for ideas for the next year that will make me feel more confident. Using a portfolio will help me show evidence that the students are making progress toward meeting state standards." (Stephanie Jones, Teacher 2007-10-26)
About the Author
Kay Burke has served as an award-winning classroom teacher and a school administrator, university instructor, and international professional developer. She works with Kay Burke & Associates, LLC, to provide workshops for teachers and administrators in standards-based learning, performance assessment, classroom management, mentoring, and portfolio development. For the past 18 years, Burke has presented at state and national conferences such as ASCD, NSDC, NAESP, NASSP, NMSA, and IRA as well as international conferences in Canada and Australia. She is the author of 10 professional development books and coauthor of a college textbook on assessment. Corwin Press published Burke's best-selling From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps: Tools for Assessing Student Learning, K–8 (2006), a 2007 finalist for the Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing presented by the Association of Educational Publishers. Other books published by Corwin Press include How to Assess Authentic Learning, Fourth Edition (2005) and What to Do With the Kid Who: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline and Responsibility in the Classroom (Third Edition).
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