This is an Instructional Module for a course entitled Assessment and Instruction for Educational Leaders addresses classroom assessment and the evaluation of instruction. The goal of this course is to help aspiring educational leaders to develop teacher observation and evaluation skills, better understand the construction of teacher generated…

Every student is directly enabled to experience the full majesty and power of the literacy lion. Strategies for multiple intelligences that can help generate reading strategies specifically tailored to students are presented.

Describes how to use quizzes, tests, writing assignments, and other assessments to improve instruction and help students learn. Suggests that instead of teaching to the test, teachers test what they teach and follow assessments with corrective instruction. Also discusses the benefits of assessments. (Contains 14 references.) (WFA)

Discusses the needs of gifted students and their teachers as well as the characteristics of a good program for gifted students. (MLF)

Teachers are discovering simple, effective ways to help blind and partially sighted students ease into the mainstream of regular classroom learning. (Author)

Teachers can accommodate differences in student learning styles by creating an environment in which individuals feel free to be themselves. (Author)

Teachers and students socialize one another in a reciprocal relationship. They both win--or lose--depending on the teachers' awareness and understanding. (Author)

The societal curriculum is that learned from family, peer groups, neighborhoods, mass media, and other socializing forces. Ways are suggested to use the societal curriculum in the classroom to increase critical awareness and analytical ability. (Author/MLF)

Students and teachers tell how educators have helped solve human problems. (Author)

Keeping a journal of classroom experiences can help students express their understandings of the concepts they learn in school and how the lessons relate to their own lives. An eight-item reference list is provided. (Author)

Students can learn from writing, regardless of subject area, by keeping a learning log or journal. Several types of questions and topics are suggested for the teacher to guide students in making their entries. (DCS)

By focusing on goegraphy, music, art, and literature, one teacher teaches her students about the history of Russian culture without having to fight student predjudice against the Soviet government. (PGD)

The challenge to educators is to structure the problem of preventing nuclear war by examining how such a war might start and specific routes to prevention. (MLF)

Information sources and suggestions for ways students can study how their community connects with the rest of the world. (MLF)

There are concrete ways to bring international concerns into classrooms. The answer to whether we want to do so can only emerge out of civic and professional debate. Lists of organizations and resource materials about hunger and related problems are provided. (MLF)