Creating & Assessing Performance-Based Curriculum Projects: A Teacher's Guide to Project-Based Learning & Performance Assessment - Softcover

Banks, Janet Caudill

 
9781886753198: Creating & Assessing Performance-Based Curriculum Projects: A Teacher's Guide to Project-Based Learning & Performance Assessment

About the Author

Janet Caudill Banks, MA, educator, author of: Creating the Multi-Age Classroom, Creative Projects for Independent Learners, Developing Research Skills: Independent Research Projects on Animals and Plants, Enhancing Research Skills: A Thematic Research Unit on the Civil War, Essential Learnings of Mathematics: What Students Should Know and Be Able to Do, and Creating and Assessing Performance-Based Curriculum Projects: A Teacher's Guide to Project-Based Learning and Performance Assessment. A national educational consultant, after 33 years of teaching at the elementary school level, Janet is writing curriculum and teaching classes and workshops for schools and school districts interested in multi-age and developmental education. She is an adjunct faculty member for Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA. She lives in Edmonds, WA, with her husband, Al, her dog, Punkin, and two cats, Ginger and Pepper. She has two married children and two grandchildren.

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Following are some of the contents and activities from this book: Lists of principles and elements of project-based learning and rationale for using performance-based strategies, along with essential learnings lists for each area of the curriculum, and project ideas based on curriculum areas, learning styles and multiple intelligences. Strategies for planning and writing thematic curriculum projects with authentic assessment tools for guiding and judging student performance. An explanation of the components of performance-assessment tasks, along with directions for designing them. A teacher's guide and worksheets for the actual planning, writing, and assessing of performance-assessment tasks.

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