"The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine the necessary next steps to enable them to achieve their own learning goals. We are seeing more effective differentiation in classrooms as a result."

--

Source : "The Global Search for Education: The Tech Report - From Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2015.

Susan Mann

#Teacher Quotes #Assessment Quotes #Skills Quotes

“Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds . . . the race will survive.”
“Since God alone provides the means for the successful accomplishment of any task, it seems evident that a person needs to be called by God to be an effective teacher. Without this call to teaching, how will anyone be able to put up with everything that teachers face daily?”
“One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire â€“ then youâ€™ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.”

Source : "Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1991.
“The roots of Cuban music are in my head.”
“When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.”

Source : "Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite" in TIME magazine, February 14, 1977.
“God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.”
“Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.”

Source : Connie Willis (1997). “Bellwether”, Spectra
“It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.”

You may also like:

Allan Rock
Lawyer
Nicole Mones
Novelist
Roma Tearne
Writer
Sue Johnson
Reporter
W. P. Kinsella
Novelist