Ready for the Classroom?: Preparing Reading Teachers With Authentic Assessments

This vital resource provides much-needed assessment tools to help teacher educators get a complete picture of candidates learning. Using IRA's Standards for Reading Professionals Revised 2003 as evaluative criteria, the cases and rubrics in this text can foster the use of high-level, critical thinking skills among candidates by having them suggest what should be done for each case and why, basing their responses on theory, experience, or research. You'll be able to use these tools to assess candidates understanding and application of course materials and to show how teaching and K-12 performance standards are met using real-life applications.

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