Assessment Resources for Teachers

Pollishuke, Mindy. Schwartz, Susan. Creating the Dynamic Classroom: A Handbook for Teachers. Toronto, ON: Pearson Education Canada Inc., 2005.

• An excellent resource for new and experienced teachers as it links education philosophy to professional practice. This text also includes over one hundred reproducible black line masters, assessment strategies and student activities.

Georgopoulos, Demetra. Perry-Watson, Renee. Rubrics and Checklist: Canadian Curriculum Teacher Helper: Grades 1 to 3. Edmonton, AB: GeoWat Innovative Teacher Publishing Inc., 2005.

• A collection of rubrics, checklists and reproducible forms to assist teachers with student assessment.

Luongo-Orlando, Katherine. Authentic Assessment: Designed Performance Based Tasks. Markham, ON: Pembroke Publishers, 2003.

• This resource covers common language arts expectations and instructs teachers on how to create activities that students will find relevant and meaningful. The three major themes addressed are making connections with literature, exploring concepts of community, and studying persuasive media techniques. This text is full of activities including suggestions for planning through evaluating and generating a mark it also includes reproducible planning sheets, rubrics, and student surveys.