Week+15


 * Week 15 - Final Project Presentation**

- Using Understanding by Design (pptx) - Sample Curriculum Unit (doc)
 * Understanding by Design**

__Resources__ [|Big Ideas] [|Authentic Education] [|Media Education: Helping Children in a Hyper-Mediated Environment] [|Giving Traditional Assessment a Formative Facelift] [|What is the Big Idea?] [|Put Understanding First] [|Partnership for 21st Century Skills]

- Electronic Portfolios [|Balancing Accountability with Learning through Electronic Portfolios] [|Electronic Portfolios - Getting Started with Google Sites] [|Dr. Helen Barrett's Electronic Porfolios] [|Electronic Portfolios - Samples]
 * Electronic Portfolios**

__Resources__ [| Redmond Working Portfolios] [|The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What's it all about?] [|Electronic Portfolios and Digital Storytelling for Lifelong and Life Wide Learning]

Constructivism Approach - Through Professional Development (resources available throughout the site after the jump)
 * Constructivism**

__**Assessment Tools for the Classroom** [|Link for Screencast]

[|Excerpts from Making Standards Useful in the Classroom] Excerpts from Making Standards Useful in the Classroom__. 2007. Marzano and Associates. 3 May 2009 .

[|Teachings of: R. Marzano Classroom Assessment & Grading that Work] Doucet, K. "Assessment Packet (Teachings of: R. Marzano Classroom Assessment & Grading that Work)." 2007. [|www.ezclasssites.com/data/mrdoucet/Progress%20Assessment%20Packet.doc].

[|Your Ticket Into Literate Conversation is Your Question] Haag, Karen. __Half Hollow Hills; Your Ticket Into Literate Conversations is Your Question__. 03 May 2009 [].

- Project Based Learning with Rube Goldberg
 * Project Based Learning**

__Resources__ [|Project Based Learning Handbook] [|Implementing Project-Based Instruction] [|Project Based Learning @ Wikipedia] [|Why Do Project Based Learning?] [|Project Based Learning Space: Background] [|Evaluation of Project Based Learning]

 **Special Education Analysis: Utilization of Standardized Assessments to Further Student Achievement in your Class** __Resources__ [|Accommodations and Modifications of Test Administration Procedures for Statewide Assessment] [|Teach for the test?] [|No Child Left Behind (NJ)]  [|NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment]

__Resources__ [|High Schools that Work] [| Partnership for 21st Century Skills -> Route 21] [|NJ 2009 CCCS Revision Project (pdf)]
 * Into the 21st Century**