I hope you dance. Mom and Dad, my first and best teachers. Leading by example, you taught me everything worth knowing. Brett, the best brother in the world. You keep me dancing and laughing. Rock on!
—Melissa
Solution Tree Press would like to thank the following reviewers:
Ashley Bingenheimer
Technology Integration Specialist
School District of River Falls
River Falls, Wisconsin
Jeanette Brosam
Instructional Coach
Franklin STEAM Academy
Champaign, Illinois
Angie Evans
Learning Coach
Red Mountain Elementary School
Ivins, Utah
Luane Genest
Fifth-Grade Teacher
Sunset Heights Elementary School
Nashua, New Hampshire
Tara Looney
K–6 Reading Interventionist
Concordia Elementary School
Concordia, Missouri
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Table of Contents
Reproducible pages are in italics.
Foreword by Rick Wormeli
INTRODUCTIONManeuver Your Footwork With Four Steps
Part I: Setting Up Your Classroom Dance Floor
CHAPTER 1Choreograph Your Instruction With the Cha-Chas Steps
What Does Neuroscience Say About Learning?
What Is the Formative Assessment Process?
What Are the Characteristics of the Formative Assessment Process?
Is There Research to Support the Formative Assessment Process?
What Is Differentiated Instruction?
Is There Research to Support Differentiation?
CHAPTER 2Move Smoothly From Broad Ideas to Smaller Ideas
How Do You Identify the Standard?
How Do You Identify the Learning Target?
How Do You Choose the Main Formative Assessment?
How Do You Choose Criteria for Success?
CHAPTER 3Get to Know Your Dance Partners
How Can You Learn About Students?
Why Are Preassessing, Activating Prior Knowledge, Pre-Exposing, and Priming Worthwhile?
