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Many educational leaders throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere.  offer their guidance on how to help students achieve at even higher levels and provide practical strategies for developing professional learning communities. The contributors' methods for raising student achievement support the idea that effective teachers embrace learning rather than teaching, work collaboratively to help students learn, use formative assessments Formative assessment is a self-reflective process that intends to promote student attainment [1]. Cowie and Bell [2] define it as the bidirectional process between teacher and student to enhance, recognise and respond to the learning.  and a focus on results to foster continuous improvement and assume individual responsibility.
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Author:Patton, Carol
Publication:District Administration
Article Type:Brief article
Date:Sep 1, 2006
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