From the Publisher
An easy to follow framework for developing thematic curriculum projects which include performance assessments. Strategies for planning and writing projects that contain authentic assessment tools for guiding and judging student performance. Projects are to be based on essential learnings standards, and need to provide for assessment of concepts, skills, learner characteristics, and learning processes students go through, as they complete chosen products and performances.
About the Author
Janet Caudill Banks, MA, educator, author of: Creating the Multi-Age Classroom, Creative Projects for Independent Learners, Developing Research Skills: Independent Research Projects on Animals and Plants, Enhancing Research Skills: A Thematic Research Unit on the Civil War, Essential Learnings of Mathematics: What Students Should Know and Be Able to Do, and Creating and Assessing Performance-Based Curriculum Projects: A Teacher's Guide to Project-Based Learning and Performance Assessment. A national educational consultant, after 33 years of teaching at the elementary school level, Janet is writing curriculum and teaching classes and workshops for schools and school districts interested in multi-age and developmental education. She is an adjunct faculty member for Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA. She lives in Edmonds, WA, with her husband, Al, her dog, Punkin, and two cats, Ginger and Pepper. She has two married children and two grandchildren.
