Handbook for Developing & Using Proficiency Scales in the Classroom

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: Developing Proficiency Scales
Chapter 3: Score 4.0 Complex Content
Chapter 4: Using 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
Appendices

Jan K. Hoegh has been an educator for over thirty years and an author and associate for Marzano Resources since 2010. Prior to joining the Marzano team, she was a classroom teacher, building leader, professional development specialist, high school assistant principal, curriculum coordinator, and assistant director of statewide assessment for the Nebraska Department of Education, where her primary focus was Nebraska State Accountability test development. Jan has served on a variety of statewide and national standards and assessment committees and has presented at numerous conferences around the world.

As an associate with Marzano Resources, Jan works with educators across the country and beyond as they strive to improve student achievement. Her passion for education, combined with extensive knowledge of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, provides credible support for teachers, leaders, schools, and districts. A primary training focus for Jan is high-quality classroom assessment and grading practices. She is coauthor of Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools and A School Leader's Guide to Standards-Based Grading, as well as other publications.

Jan holds a bachelor of arts in elementary education and a master of arts in educational administration, both from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She also earned a specialization in assessment from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.