Table of Contents

About This Book.

About the Author.

Acknowledgments.

Foreword (Deborah Meier).

Introduction.

PART I: THE CONTEXT OF LEARNING FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW.

1. Education for the 21st Century.
• Addressing the Landscape of Assessment Policies and Practice.
• To Sum Up.
2. Differentiated Instruction Starts with Differentiated Assessments.
• A Window into Learners Abilities: Adolescents with Learning Challenges.
• The Demographic Landscape of Assessment Policies and Practice.
• A Differentiated Assessment System: A Sociocultural Approach.
• A Comprehensive Assessment System in a High School in the Bronx.
• To Sum Up.
• Notes.

PART II CASE STUDIES OF DIFFERENTIATED ASSESSMENT.

3. Differentiated Assessment In Middle Schools.
• Case Studies in Developing Differentiated Assessment.
• Grant as Catalyst: A Community Designs a System of Differentiated Assessment.
• Leaders' Lessons: Looking at Students Work Makes Learning Visible.
• Building a Collaborative Culture: Key Practices Structure Assessment Conversations.
• Differentiated Assessment Guides Instruction: Portfolio Rubrics as Common Criteria.
• Institutionalize Portfolios for Grading and Conferences: Celebrating Student Work.
• Leaders' Stories: Identifying the Assets of Diverse Groups of Language Learners.
• Teachers in Middle School Create Classroom Assessment Systems: Setting Standards.
• Teacher's Classroom Assessment Is Based on "Sitting Beside" the Language Learner.
• How Portfolios Help Teachers Become Researchers of Individuals.
• Profiles and Portfolios: The Window into the Learner's Mind and Potential.
• Reaching Every Language Learner Personally: Creating a Profile.
• Good Seeds Grow in Good Cultures: Teachers Create a Portfolio Culture for Learning.
• To Sum Up.
• Notes.
4. Differentiated Assessment in High Schools.
• Why Differentiate the Assessment? A Story of High Schools' Challenges.
• Differentiating Learners: Knowing the Adults and Children as a Community.
• Differentiated Assessment: Developing a Classroom Assessment System.
• Digital Portfolios Introduced as Personal Stories: Windows into the Learner's Mind.
• Guidelines for Classroom Assessment: Creating/Maintaining Portfolios.
• To Sum Up.
5. Classroom Assessment with Digital Portfolios.
• Differentiated Assessment: Seeing the Learner's Abilities.
• Making Learning Visible with Portfolios.
• Portfolio Assessment at New Day Academy.
• New Faculty Getting Started with Digital Portfolios.
• The Class and the Challenges.
• Students and Teacher at Work.
• To Sum Up.
• Note.

PART III SEEING STUDENTS ASSETS: DIFFERENTIATED ASSESSMENT GUIDES INSTRUCTION.

6. Differentiated Assessment, Instruction, and Accommodation.
• Knowing Your Learner: Understand Cultural and Linguistic Assets.
• Knowing Your Learners: Building a Comprehensive Assessment System.
• Using the Student's Assets: Sociocultural Framework to Differentiate Assessment.
• Classroom Performance Assessments.
• Differentiated Instruction: Knowing Your Learners and Finding Their Strengths.
• Creating a Student Profile: A Teacher's Story of Differentiated Instruction.
• Differentiated Instruction: Knowing Individual Learners' Multiple Intelligences.
• To Sum Up.
• Notes.
7. How Differentiated Assessment Guides Instruction.
• Knowing Your Learners: Using Portfolios to Differentiate Assessment.
• Multiple Entry Points to Instruction: The Physical Environment Supports Learning.
• Anchor Activities and Flexible Grouping.
• Differentiating Instruction: Lesson and Unit Development for Secondary Students.
• Voices from the Field: Differentiated Instruction at the High School Level.
• Differentiated Curriculum: Meeting the Needs of All Learners.
• Implementing Differentiated Assessment and Instruction in the Classroom.
• To Sum Up.

Appendix: DVD Table of Contents.

References and Resources.

Index.

How to Use the DVD-ROM.

System Requirements.

Using the DVD-ROM with Windows.

In Case of Trouble.