Redefining Student Accountability: A Proactive Approach to Teaching Behavior Outside the Gradebook (Your guide to improving student learning by teaching and nurturing positive student behavior) - Softcover

Tom Schimmer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1952812135 ISBN 13: 9781952812132

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2023

Synopsis

The time has come to separate academic achievement from student behavior attributes. Author and trusted assessment expert Tom Schimmer shares a three-tiered framework and trauma-informed, restorative, and schoolwide approaches to teaching responsibility, nurturing student accountability, and addressing student behavior in a way that teaches students the life skills they need to thrive in the classroom and in the larger world.

This book will help K–12 teachers and administrators:

• Learn how to create trauma-informed, restorative, and schoolwide approaches to teaching the skills of responsibility to students
• Discover how to improve students’ social competence through a process of goal-setting, self-monitoring, and self-reflection
• Gain an understanding of how the PLC at Work® and RTI at Work™ processes, as well as strong assessment practices, can redefine student accountability in the classroom
• Understand how reinforcement works and how to use it to benefit students
• Explore why behavior should be separated from grades and how to effectively assess and report on behavior

Contents:
Introduction: Their Worlds are Real!
Chapter 1: Redefining Student Accountability within the Assessment context
Chapter 2: Redefining Student Accountability within the PLC at Work context
Chapter 3: Redefining Student Accountability within the RTI context
Chapter 4: Teaching and Reinforcing Student Accountability
Chapter 5: Correcting and Supporting Student Accountability
Chapter 6: Prioritizing and Reporting Student Accountability
Chapter 7: Self-Regulating Student Accountability
Afterword

About this title

About the Author

Tom Schimmer is an author and a speaker with expertise in assessment, grading, leadership, and behavioral support. An educator for more than 20 years, Tom is a former district-level leader, school administrator, and teacher. As a district-level leader, he was a member of the senior management team responsible for overseeing the efforts to support and build the instructional capacities of teachers and administrators.
Tom is a sought-after speaker who presents internationally for schools and districts.
He earned a teaching degree from Boise State University and a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of British Columbia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1952812135
• ISBN 13: 9781952812132
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 176