TEACHING TOOLS & RESOURCES
The tools and resources in this section serve various purposes. Some will help you prepare your students for their Classroom, Inc. experience. Others are classroom-management tools designed for your convenience. Still others address accountability—demonstrating how our program helps you to meet the teaching objectives required by regional or national standards. Most materials are printable.<br /> </p>
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The tools and resources in this section serve various purposes. Some will help you prepare your students for their Classroom, Inc. experience. Others are classroom-management tools designed for your convenience. Still others address accountability—demonstrating how our program helps you to meet the teaching objectives required by regional or national standards. Most materials are printable. Choose a Resource.
Team-Building Activities
To get your students thinking about collaborative problem-solving and decision-making, you may want to have them do one or more of these activities before they get on the computer. Have students assemble in their Classroom, Inc. teams. Print a copy of a selected activity for each team. Before assigning it, review the activity to make sure students understand it. As students are working, circulate among teams to help clarify the purpose and desired outcome of their activity.
Completing this easy form will help you to set up and organize your computer teams.
These five-point writing rubrics appear in the writing section of all annotated episode assessments in your Handbook 1. You may also find them useful for assessing other simulation-related writing. Choose the Excel assessment record for your Learning Environment program. Download it to your computer desktop by using the Save As command. As your students proceed through the simulation, you can enter and save their grades on the assessment record.
The Alicia Leary Progress Foundation Note: If you prefer to record students' scores by hand, a print copy of this form can be found on the last page of your Handbook 1.
Choose the Excel assessment record for the Math Links Pretest and Posttest and Math Link Topic Tests. Download them to your computer desktop by using the Save As command. As your students take the Pretest, Math Links topic tests, and finally the Posttest, you can enter and save their grades on the assessment record. Math Links Pretest and Posttest Records
If your students are completing the Social Studies or Science Projects in their Handbooks, you might want to download this Excel assessment record to your computer desktop. You can grade both content-area projects, giving separate scores to written, graphic, or oral parts of each. Note: If you prefer to record students scores by hand, a print copy of this form can be found on the last page of your Handbook 2.
Every Classroom, Inc. Learning Environment provides multiple opportunities for teachers to give instruction in standards-aligned skills—and for students to practice those skills. All Learning Environments literacy skills have been drawn from a group of national performance standards and frameworks, including those of NCTE/IRA, McRel, and NCEE New Standards. Math and financial literacy skills have been drawn from Jump$tart and the NCTM. Additionally, most Learning Environments feature an appropriate third set of standards-based skills, such as Environmental Education, Civics, and Performing Arts. These skills are also drawn from leading national performance standards in their individual areas. Here are the complete skills charts for all Classroom, Inc. Learning Environments. Each chart shows precisely where in the program—by episode and component—a given skill appears.
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