Instruction That Measures Up: Successful Teaching in the Age of Accountability

W. James Popham

ISBN 10: 1416607641 / ISBN 13: 9781416607649

Published by Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 2009

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Synopsis:

High-stakes testing. Mandated content standards and benchmarks. Public scrutiny of student and school performance. Accountability. Teachers today are challenged to provide instruction that will measure up: to the expectations of administrators, parents, and taxpayers; to their own professional standards; and, most essentially, to the needs of students.

Policy debates rage in the press, and pedagogical pundits always have a new and better solution to offer, but inside the walls of the classroom, instruction boils down to teachers deciding what they want their students to learn, planning how to promote that learning, implementing those plans, and then determining if the plans worked. And the best instructional decisions are informed by empirical research, assessment evidence, and the sound judgment of the professional educator.

In this book, W. James Popham calls on his half-century in the classroom to provide a practical, four-stage framework for guiding teachers through their most important instructional decisions: curriculum determination, instructional design, instructional monitoring, and instructional evaluation. Along the way, he emphasizes the critical ways in which assessment can and should influence instruction, advocates for a dash of curricular insurrection, and offers advice for maintaining both teaching excellence and teachers' sanity.

Book Description: Teaching in today’s schools is different, and teachers have to know what to do to help their students come out as winners in a test-pressured environment. Here’s a book that explains how to do that with a practical framework for teaching in the accountability age. Understand why current circumstances have forever changed how to make instructional decisions and explore a simple and sensible way to get clear about what you absolutely have to teach, make sure you’re teaching essential content the right way, monitor students to determine whether or not they’re learning, and Evaluate your instructional approaches to keep students on track.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Instruction That Measures Up: Successful ...
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good