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Creative and Critical Thinking

Dancing to Integrated Rythms: a Model for Active Academics

Diagnostic Evaluation

Early Childhood Education - Getting Off on the Right Foot

Integrating the Arts Across the Curriculum - Why and How?

Integrating the Curriculum

Multicultural Education - Celebrating Diversity

New Technologies and Integrated Curriculum

Non-Graded Elementary School - From Theory to Practice

Physical Education: More Than Just Games

Reading Strategies That Work

Study Skills

Successful Strategies for a Differentiated Classroom

Teaching and Learning the Skills of Peacemaking

Teaching with the Brain in Mind

The Neglected Intelligence - Body-Kinesthetic

The School Curriculum: What Changes are Needed to Meet Student Needs?

The Tyranny of Standardized Tests

Using Portfolios to Improve Student Thinking, Motivation, and Responsibility

Visual Arts for Classroom Teachers


Curriculum, Instruction and Evaluation
Professional Development Opprtunities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Diagnostic Evaluation

Teachers are being asked to read and implement the results of a student's psycho-educational evaluations. Often teachers have little to no experience with these tests or how to read and interpret diagnostic reports. This workshop is designed to review specific educational testing materials. Specific measures will be demonstrated and explained. An Actual report with recommendations will be generated.

Topics:

Reading, interpreting and using the data generated by the following instruments:

  • Connors' Behavior Rating Scale
  • Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration
  • Slosson Oral Reading Test
  • Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test
  • Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
  • Test of Early Language Development
  • Test of Adolescent Language Development
  • Test of Problem Solving
  • WISC-III
  • Detroit Test of Learning Aptitude-3
  • Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test
  • Slosson Oral Intelligence-R
  • Jordan Left-Right Reversal Test
  • The Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning
  • Personal Problems Checklist for Adolescents
  • How I Feel About School Inventory

 

Interpreting percentiles, scaled scores, stanines and grade level equivalents

Determining if testing supports the recommendations being made within the body of the report or at a team meeting