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List of Tables and Figures | |
Foreword | |
Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
About the Authors | |
A Guide for Teachers | |
Introduction to the Process of Bridging | |
Assessment and Teaching | |
Bridging in Classrooms | |
Overview of Bridging | |
Distinctive Features of Bridging | |
Bridiging for Preservice and Inservice Teachers | |
Overview of the Bridging Handbook | |
Assessing the Content of Children's Learning | |
Diversity and Individual Differences | |
Diverse Curricular Areas | |
Promoting Underlying Concept Development | |
Key Concepts and Skills | |
Performance Rubrics | |
Learning Profiles | |
Actual and Potential Development | |
Assessing the Process of Children's Learning | |
Approaches to Learning | |
Defining Approaches to Learning | |
Rubrics to Measure Working Approaches | |
Sources of Variability in Working Approaches | |
Working Approaches in the Bridging Process | |
Activity as the Unit of Analysis in Bridging Assessment | |
Unit of Analysis in Child Assessment | |
Activity as the Unit of Analysis in Bridging Assessment | |
Conceptual Framework of Bridging | |
Bridging Activities as Basic Activities | |
Bridging Activities and Play | |
Task Parameters in Bridging Assessment | |
Task Parameters in Bridging Assessment | |
Task Goals | |
Key Concepts and Skills | |
Materials | |
Social Arrangements | |
Structure of Tasks | |
Summary | |
Teacher Roles in Bridging Assessment | |
Overview of Teacher Roles | |
Decision Maker | |
Participant | |
Observer | |
Interpreter | |
Translator | |
Integrating Roles and Teacher Development | |
Bridges to Effective Teaching | |
Implementation of Assessment Activities | |
Implementing Bridging | |
Implementing Bridging in the Classroom Context | |
Becoming Familiar With Activity Protocols | |
Planning the Assessment | |
Conducting Bridging Activities | |
Interpreting the Assessment Results | |
Linking Assessment to Teaching | |
Activities: Language Arts and Literacy | |
What We Know | |
What Bridging Provides | |
Why These Three Activities | |
Standards and Language Arts and Literacy Bridging Activities | |
Reading a Book-Child's Choice and Teacher's Choice | |
Dictating a Story | |
Acting Out a Story | |
Activities: Visual Arts | |
What We Know | |
What Bridging Provides | |
Why These Three Activities | |
Standards and Visual Arts Bridging Activities | |
Experimenting With Crayon Techniques | |
Drawing a Self-Portrait | |
Making Pattern Block Pictures | |
Activities: Mathematics | |
What We Know | |
What Bridging Provides | |
Why These Three Activities | |
Standards and Mathematics Bridging Activities | |
Creating Pattern Block Pinwheels | |
Solving Pattern Block Puzzles | |
Exploring Number Concepts (Counting, Subtracting, Estimating, and "Fair Share"-Simple Division) | |
Activities: Sciences | |
What We Know | |
What Bridging Provides | |
Why These Three Activities | |
Standards and Science Bridging Activities | |
Exploring Shadows and Light | |
Assembling a Nature Display | |
Building a Model Car | |
Activities: Performing Arts | |
What We Know | |
What Bridging Provides | |
Why These Three Activities | |
Standards and Performing Arts Bridging Activities | |
Moving to Music | |
Playing an Instrument | |
Singing a Song | |
References and Recommended Readings | |
Facilitator's Guide to Bridging and Teacher Development | |
Inservice Professional Development | |
Professional Studies for Preservice Teacher Candidates | |
Building a Community of Learners | |
Index | |
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