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ASCD's Fall Conference on Teaching and Learning
Educators gather this week in Las Vegas, Nev., to discuss the many ways that enhancing teacher effectiveness leads to improving student learning. Check Conference Daily for updates, photos, news, and more.
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The Whole Child Podcast
Download Changing the Conversation About Education with host Molly McCloskey on the first Thursday of every month and listen to archived episodes.
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Looking for a New Position?
Trying to hire the best teachers or looking for a new career in education? Check out Job Ramp™, ASCD's own job bank.
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What Do Teachers Need from Curriculum Guides?
Practically speaking, how are curriculum guides used by teachers in the lesson-planning process? Find out what veteran educators think about curriculum guides in their various forms.
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Blog Watch:
"Five Best Blogs"
Often, fascinating and fun education reporting and analysis takes place on blogs that don't claim schools as a regular beat.
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Effective Grading Practices
Grading today is not as simple as A, B, C. Schools are adopting grading systems that go beyond the traditional letter grades or that use those letters in nontraditional ways. Some schools are abandoning letter grades in favor of standards-based report cards. Others have eliminated the zero and the F. Still others are rethinking exactly what should be graded. How, for example, should student effort and participation factor into final grades? This issue will explore the myriad grading practices schools have adopted.
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Structuring Lessons with Learning Goals in Mind
Structuring classroom lessons lays the groundwork for effective teaching. Although there are a variety of ways to build lesson plans, it's imperative that teachers have a clear idea of a lesson's learning goals and can convey those to students in a way they can understand at the outset.
At the same time, teachers need to keep students' capacities, interests, and learning needs in mind to ensure that learners are sufficiently and appropriately challenged. Lesson planning with a clear purpose and a desire to truly engage students pays academic and behavioral dividends that can only enrich learning.
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Establishing Purpose for Yourself and Your Students
 In their new book, The Purposeful Classroom: How to Structure Lessons with Learning Goals in Mind, Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher explain the steps to ensuring that every lesson plan has high expectations and a clear purpose for learning so that students are engaged and goals are meaningful.
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Lesson Planning for Engagement
International teacher educator Fiona Baker offers tips to help teachers engage students by answering crucial questions about the "what" and "why" of a lesson's content and its connection to learners.
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What Drives Instruction?
To start off a lesson, a dry list of objectives may be informative but it is not as compelling as a driving question that appeals to students' interests, curiosity, and sense of adventure in learning.
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Design Lessons That Meet New Goals
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What Does "Purpose" Look Like in Instruction?
 When a lesson's purpose aligns with goals and students are motivated to learn, a system of formative assessment better informs ongoing instructional decisions and furthers student learning.
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Tech for Teachers:
Glogster—A New Way to Look at the Poster Project
 In the first of a new column on technology integration, Jason Bedell shows how teachers from kindergarten through college can use Glogster, a Web 2.0 tool, to fortify and enrich the humble poster project.
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My Back Pages:
Another Look at Lesson Planning (1980)
A survey of teachers and their lesson-planning methods showed a variety of competing schools of thought that persist today.
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Radically Rethinking Standards Infusion
 Teachers' standards-based lessons don't have to be boring to be good. Tiffani Brown offers one approach to engaging students to help them learn what they need and meet standards.
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