From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps: Tools for Assessing Student Learning, K-8 » (1ST)

Kay Burke has facilitated professional development workshops and graduate courses for thousands of educators throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia. As an educator, she was an award-winning classroom teacher, a school administrator, and a university instructor. She is internationally known for her books and training programs in the areas of authentic classroom assessments, rubric development, performance task unit planning, student, teacher, and administrative portfolios, classroom management, coaching, and mentoring.

Some of Kay's best-selling books include: How to Assess Authentic Learning, 4th ed.; Designing Professional Portfolios for Change; The Portfolio Connection: Student Work Linked to Standards, 2nd ed. ; What to do with the kid who: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline and Responsibility in the Classroom, 2nd ed.; Mentoring Guidebook Level 1: Starting the Journey, 2nd ed.; Mentoring Guidebook, Level 2: Exploring Teaching Strategies; From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps. Currently, Kay works with colleagues at Kay Burke & Associates, LL, providing educators with practical instructional strategies to improve their students' academic achievement and love of learning.

Internationally recognized assessment expert Kay Burke offers a practical, comprehensive six-step walk-through of how to create tasks that promote learning for all students and write rubrics linked straight to the requirements of state standards and the No Child Left Behind Act. Individual chapters drill deep into the how-to of translating standards into essential learning. Burke demonstrates how to build a performance task unit as the ideal curriculum framework for clustering standards and differentiating instruction within a single cohesive unit of study. She shows how to share checklists and rubrics with students for ongoing formative and self assessment.

Teachers and administrators will find everything they need, including

• Templates for all six steps, along with an accompanying CD-ROM
• Tools and tips to help teachers build their own tasks, checklists, and rubrics
• Theory, examples, applications, and explanations to help apply the six-step process
• Guidance for differentiating for special needs within standards-linked tasks
• Sample tasks, rubrics, and units

From Standards to Rubrics in 6 Steps provides the path and tools for flow-through from standards to rubrics to high student achievement.

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Target the Standard
Chapter 2: Find the Big Ideas
Chapter 3: Organize Teacher Checklists
Chapter 4: Create Performance Tasks
Chapter 5: Develop Student Checklists
Chapter 6: Design Teaching Rubrics
Final Thoughts
Resource A: The Greatest Book Ever - A Kindergarten Rhyming Words Unit
Resource B: Showcase of American Heroes - A First-Grade Social Studies/Language Arts Unit
Resource C: Revamping "Old Glory" - A Second-Grade Social Studies/Reading Unit
Resource D: Our Governor Wants You! - A Third-Grade Social Studies Unit
Resource E: Slam Dunk! Scoring Points With the NBA/WNBA - A Fourth-Fifth-Grade Mathematics Unit
Resource F: Bombs Away...World War II Unit - A Fifth-Grade Social Studies/Language Arts Unit
Resource G: Shuttle Saviors: The Scientific Method Revisted - A Middle School Science Unit
References
Index