Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Together: Reflective Assessments for Middle and High School Mathematics and Science

Arthur K. Ellis · David Denton

Aug 2013 · Routledge

About this ebook

This book offers easy-to-use classroom strategies for middle and high school Mathematics and Science classrooms. They demonstrate how teaching, learning, and assessment are inseparable and seamless. Each strategy will engage your students in activity and reflection, consuming little class time, costing nothing, and uniting the three dimensions of education through reflective practice.

The chapters begin with a reflective teaching strategy, followed by classroom examples. Guiding icons will help you coordinate and implement each strategy. Chapters conclude with a set of learning community discussion questions to guide personal growth as well as faculty discussions.

About the author

Arthur K. Ellis is Professor of Education and Director of the Center for Global Curriculum Studies at Seattle Pacific University. Before that, he was Professor of Education at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Ellis taught elementary and middle school in Oregon and Washington before completing his doctorate at the University of Oregon. He also holds honorary doctorates from the University of the Russian Academy of Education and is a Corresponding Professor at three universities in Russia. He also works closely with the College of Education and Department of Philosophy at Zhejiang University in China. Several of his books have been published in Russian, Chinese, and Korean versions. Among his more recent publications is a study of Service Learning published by the Japanese Research Institute of Higher Education.