Stories of Advocacy for Literacy: Part 1
…rare opportunity to stand up for beliefs integral to the core of good literacy instruction, curriculum development, and purposeful assessment. I’m glad to have this chance to represent the National…
Search Results for Assessment
Wherefore Art Thou? The “Arts” of the English Language Arts (Journal Spotlight: Voices from the Middle)
…Arts Over the past twenty years, there has been a steady decline in the offering of the “arts” in our schools. In this assessment era, electives are supplanted by additional…
Where Hope Persists (But I Wish It Didn’t Have To): A Few Thoughts from My First NCTE Convention
…colleges. His scholarship is focused on writing about writing, writing-related transfer, and equitable assessment practices—specifically, labor-based grading. His writing has been published in journals such as California English and WPA…
What Going Back to the Classroom Taught Me about Global Citizenship
…to the “critical.” We found that students resisted soft GCE, interrogated the ways we tried to make global citizenship education more critical, and embraced multimodal literacy assessments in how they…
#WritingIs . . . Using the NCTE Professional Knowledge about the Teaching of Writing Statements in the Classroom
…statement/belief, five stars; if they are indifferent about it, three stars; and if they disagree with it, one star. This self-assessment requires students to reflect on their prior experiences with…
Adolescence in the English Language Arts
…of assessment in ways that invite teachers to see potential assessments as engaging them and their students in advocacy work around adolescent conceptions. For instance, the chapter offers ways teachers…
Decolonizing the Classroom: Step 1
…colonization. In an attempt to decolonize the classroom, one can make many changes: diversify materials and content teach to learning outcomes that address power and social justice; design assessments that…
What I’ve Learned about Being a Mentor
…of teaching together, it was our job to make meaning out of the reds, yellows, and greens of state assessments. We kept one another sane in the sea of spreadsheets…
Reflections on the School Year
…preparing them for the state standardized assessment that is done in the tenth grade year and is required for graduation. This pressure is one that many teachers face, whether it…
Connected Educator Month, The Challenge
Throughout the month of October, NCTE has been a theme leader, covering “Innovations in Assessment“. Throughout the month, we have also been issuing a challenge: How can we re-envision assessments…
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