Redefining Fair

How to Plan, Assess, and Grade for Excellence in Mixed-Ability Classrooms

Learn how to define proficiency accurately and differentiate to help all students achieve it. With a focus on mixed-ability classes, the author outlines instructional practices that engage, empower, and motivate students. Using stories, strategies, case histories, and sample documents, he explains how to implement equitable instruction, assessment, grading, and reporting practices for diverse 21st century learners.

Benefits

• Review examples of ways to respond to resistance to new assessment methods.
• Learn instructional practices that engage, empower, and motivate students.
• Discover how to collect data through a variety of preassessments and diagnostic assessments to determine students’ needs, readiness to learn, and learning preferences.
• Examine guidelines to ensure report cards clearly convey essential information to parents and students.
• Gain an array of grading methods for mixed-ability classes and assessment and differentiation strategies that maximize learning for all students.
• Explore strategies to facilitate the development of critical-thinking and problem-solving skills students need to navigate the vast amounts of information they encounter in the digital world.