What's Next

Be prepared to enrich students who already know your planned curriculum. What's Next? provides the tools you need to preassess students and practical strategies to further their learning. Concrete examples from different content areas and grade levels illustrate the ideas in action. Written for singletons and teacher teams alike, this comprehensive resource allows you to test and choose the strategies that work best for your classroom.

This book will show you how to: Recognize the purpose of question 4 within the PLC at Work(R) process: What do I do when they already know it? Rethink instruction to empower students to further their learning. Implement a variety of strategies for students to show what they know. Use a different strategy each month and choose what works best. Fully implement question 4 by combining the strategies that best suit your classroom.

Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Showing What I Know With Inventories and Curriculum Compacting Chapter 2: Showing What I Know With Multiple-Choice Quizzes and Choice Boards Chapter 3: Showing What I Know With KWL Charts and Alternative Assignments Chapter 4: Showing What I Know With Student Questions and the Question Formulation Technique Chapter 5: Showing What I Know With Drawing and Badges Chapter 6: Showing What I Know With Skimming and Gaming Chapter 7: Showing What I Know With Projects and the Hook Chapter 8: Showing What I Know With Unit Tests and Problem-Solving Teams Chapter 9: Pulling It All Together References and Resources Index