Wormeli, Rick

Presents a rationale for differentiated assessment and grading, discusses mastery, and provides guidance, ideas, and examples from middle and high school classrooms, as well as a guide for teacher leaders on supporting colleagues beginning differentiated assessment and grading.

Explains how metaphors and analogies can be used in every subject at any grade level, demonstrating how metaphors and analogies can help students make connections between the concrete and the abstract and offering practical suggestions to help teachers learn how to use them as teaching tools.

Offers advice on how to meet the challenges of teaching middle-level students, describing strategies for creating a culture of learning, fostering student achievement through innovative and accomplished practice, and extending professional practices.

Describes strategies designed to help teachers create lessons that can be accommodated to the learning styles and needs of varied student populations in grades six through twelve, and includes samples of differentiated learning experiences from multiple subjects.

Presents a rationale for differentiated assessment and grading, discusses mastery, and provides guidance, ideas, and examples from middle and high school classrooms, as well as a guide for teacher leaders on supporting colleagues beginning differentiated assessment and grading.

Shows how to teach children to summarize information and provides fifty techniques for using summarization as a teaching tool in any school subject.