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Includes: Cooperation / Competition -- Knowing myself / Knowing others -- Experiencing cooperation -- Forming groups -- Learning about my group -- Being a good group member -- Group skills - Solving group problems -- Spreading the umbrella.

Includes: Evaluation by Teachers - observations, notes, data booklets, student files and portfolios, checklists, student cards -- Evaluation by Students -peer evaluation, student teacher conferences, self-evaluation -- Evauation by Parents - communication with paretns, parent conferences -- Report Cards - writing and anecdotal report, sample report cards, sending the report card home.

Includes: A Framework for Change - Redefining and reforming instructional support programs for at risk students - Flunking throwing good money after bad - Estimating cost-effectiveness and educational outcomes: retention, remediation, special education, and early intervention - Portfolios in the classroom: what happens when teachers and students negotiate assessment? --- Case Studies of School Change - Literacy partnerships for change with "at-risk" kindergartners - Reducing retention and learning disability placement through reading recovery: an educationally sound cost-effective choice - Eliminating ability grouping and reducing failure in the primary grades - First grade teachers provide early reading intervention in the classroom - Scoring well on tests or becoming genuinely literate: rethinking remediation in a small rural school - Improving early literacy: Vermont stories of educational change from the bottom up and the top down - Change in urban schools with high concentrations of low-income children - The implementation of the accelerated school model in an urban elementary school - No quick fix: where do we go from here?.

Includes: Making the past come to life -- Diversity education -- Factual history: nonfiction in the social studies program -- Literature adds up for math class -- Literature in the science program.

Includes: Beginning to spell - Further growth in spelling - Towards spelling competence - Evaluation - Learning to use a dictionary.

Includes: Revaluing assessment - Teaching as inquiry - Evaluating ourselves - Tools for evaluation - Documenting learning.

Includes: Assessment profile: what is involved? - Moving from a collection to authentic assessment - Guidelines for portfolio assessment practice - Types of portfolios: from showcase to process - Issues to consider - Constructing professional development portfolios - Portfolios across the curriculum - Last thoughts, future directions.

Includes: Current trends, spelling and writing - content and methods, core vocabulary, phonics - Suggested applications of research, formal spelling, functional spelling, individualized spelling.

Includes: Words Are Basic Equipment; vocabulary building --- Listening Is the Prime Input Skill; listening skills --- Speaking Demands Structure; structured storytelling - speaking from outlines. Has information on synonyms, antonyms, acronyms, compounds, categorizing, listening for enjoyments, important principles in teaching listening.

Includes: Whole language makes sense -- The theme is one way to go -- Whole language with the whole class -- Group work means organized whole language learning -- Meeting individual needs in a whole language program.