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The Competent Classroom : Aligning High School Curriculum, Standards, and Assessment--A Creative Teaching Guide

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I used this book to help me as a beginning instructor at an Ivy League college and found it a helpful, engaging, and inspiring resource. Unlike high school teachers, many college-level instructors receive little training before beginning classroom instruction. This book helps teachers set and realize classroom goals. It teaches teachers how to ask effective questions-- of their students and of themselves. For teachers who want advice on how to structure a class and to facilitate discussions in any classroom, I highly recommend this book.

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This is a wonderful book for showing teachers through practice how the principles of backwards design, assessment, and differentiation of instruction can be applied. As an Education professor, I often use this book to take aspiring teachers from theory to practice. it is written in teacher-friendly language, and it provides rich examples across all content areas to both inspire teachers and model for them. This book, combined with Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding By Design by Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe, provides an excellent basis for best educational practices. I highly recommend both books to be used together.