Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

There are good reasons why worksheets have been the backbone of assessment for decades: Students write or type the information (and get the benefits of note-taking). Once students finish watching, they can play topical games, dig deeper with more videos, make a learning map, review domain-specific words, and/or assess their learning.

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Gradelink

MAY 13, 2021

In the traditional grading system, letter grades are given for core subjects based on assessments like quizzes, tests, projects, homework, and more. All these assessments are scored and put into the gradebook and are averaged into a student’s letter grade. How to Show Soft Skills On Report Cards. GPAs can go higher than 4.0

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”. The courses are still based on California state standards, and students continue to complete external assessments such as iReady. The post How to do online learning well? Does it work?

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

It proved useful in finding teachers to help develop our lesson plans, assessments and professional development. Hiring outside and field sales reps is another geographic consideration when selling to specific states. We primarily used Craigslist for all hires except sales and software development. We covered topics such as number of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. That was the district’s first year taking the PARCC assessment, a college- and career-readiness test mandated by the state of Illinois, and the results were dismal, though not exactly surprising.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Today, they are committed to assessing students’ progress towards SEL mastery, which they see as essential to understanding where students are at—and to proving their SEL curriculum works. But assessing non-academic skills, it turns out, is no easy task. We take a look at how it’s going. Assessing the assessments.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

The LTSC is also working on related standards for mobile learning platforms, adaptive instructional systems and augmented reality learning environments. Open Registry of K-12 Learning Standards State academic standards help define the learning objectives for U.S. K-12 learners.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Teachers monitor individual progress, see what each student completed on their last visit as well as when that was and how long it lasted, view students’ self-described moods, assess their pre- and post-quiz scores, and view their summative synthesis videos that provide evidence of their knowledge as they teach others what they just learned.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I modeled my classroom after the classrooms in the high school I attended—rows of desks, the teacher at the front of the room, nightly homework, and regular assessments. Eight years later, I was back in high school again, this time as a math teacher.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 10, 2015

How To Add Rigor To Any Lesson, Unit, Or Assessment. And more importantly, how can you use to promote understanding? 10 Strategies To Add Rigor To Any Lesson, Unit, or Assessment. The post How To Add Rigor To Anything appeared first on TeachThought. by Terry Heick. What does it mean? What are its characteristics?

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The principal's students were in an alternative setting and the main delivery and assessment of content came from an online course platform. All of this can be helpful when attempting to intentionally plan how to co-teach with another human. Alignment to academic standards is usually more prominent and obvious.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. That was the district’s first year taking the PARCC assessment, a college- and career-readiness test mandated by the state of Illinois, and the results were dismal, though not exactly surprising.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

“You can’t actually function in a purely academic zone without also developing the sensibilities, orientations, behaviors and strategies that all of us use to navigate our everyday lives.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Two recent state initiatives are defining a set of non academic work habits that contribute to student success , and developing a statewide performance-based assessment system. After spending a few years thinking deeply about assessment in a competency-based system, Memorial teachers noticed something troubling.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In addition, teachers can also use Seesaw to create a class blog, communicate with students and families, create and curate activities from a robust and ever-growing library, and assess student work via digital portfolios. This allows teachers to assess student progress over time. How do I set up my class in Seesaw?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 10, 2021

How To De-Industrialize School: An Agrarian Learning Model. How To Design A School That Would Never Fail. Curriculum, academic standards, grades, cut scores, progress/growth over time, and more all born out of love. assessment and data. If Schools Weren’t Factories: An Agrarian Learning Model.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2019

Explore ways to bring design, computational thinking, coding, robotics, electronics, engineering, and other elements of making into the regular classroom day in support of academic standards across the school in every subject. Learn how examining a standard can help promote real learning and go beyond the shine of technology.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

It’s a mindshift for teachers, especially when it comes to assessment, because scoring is so different. But in a competency-based model, teachers must assess and record a student’s performance on each academic standard within and across subjects. Students can upload and view their evidence of learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Weird Enough Productions (501(c)3/Lithonia, Georgia) teaches students how to combat fake news, identify media bias and create positive content through an ed-tech tool. When thinking about how to grow a business, entrepreneurs must first take a close look at the competitive landscape. Words Liive (Washington, D.C.)

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We Smarty Ants is a foundational literacy program for grades PreK-1 that teaches children how to read in an engaging, online environment.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 9, 2015

Integrated curriculum also is a good way of finding time to read more non-fiction texts as required by the Common Core Standards and assessments. See Less is More in Elementary School for examples of integrated units with appropriate Common Core Standard C). Combine Assessment Prep Into Daily Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Most educators agree the Common Core standards are rigorous enough that students who meet these guidelines will be adequately prepared to pursue a career or a college degree after they graduate from the public school system. That’s a very exciting thing … watching them academically really open up. “We But we do.”.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

As the teacher, you’re used to being the control valve for content, assessment, feedback, and reporting. Yes, you’ve got a pile of academic standards that have to be mastered. Grant Wiggins has a great analogy for standards—building code. You probe, prompt, front-load, and assess. Cool, huh? Anybody but you.

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2023

Does your school district or higher ed institution use a learning management system (LMS), digital curriculum resources, learning tools, assessment applications, a badging platform, a single-sign-on application launcher or a student information system? How did this advancement happen? Now, this integration can take just a few minutes.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

The Common Core standards, a set of English and math guidelines adopted by more than 40 states, challenge many commonly held beliefs — including how best to teach children to read. Regardless of how effectively Pinheiro incorporates the Common Core academic standards into her classroom, challenges will remain.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2022

They argue the solution isn’t to get rid of assessments, however, but to redesign them to be more effective. Over the past two years — when almost all state standardized tests were suspended — periodic assessments provided educators with some data to understand what kids learned — or didn’t. How are you doing today?’

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

When she dropped out at the end of ninth grade, she didn’t know how to use punctuation or do multiplication. Schools are supposed to revise the IEP document annually in partnership with the student’s parents and conduct a barrage of assessments to reevaluate the child’s disability classification every three years.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

“It’s a complicated question, how to measure that achievement gap,” said Eli Beardsley, JCPS’ ESL coordinator. Pruitt has held a number of town hall meetings throughout the state to discuss how to define school success, but it’s unclear what change he may propose in the end.

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MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

“Research shows on a national scale there’s less play and experiential based curriculum happening over all, and much more didactic instruction, even though we have research that shows long term there are greater gains from play-based programs than academically focused ones,” Carlsson-Paige said. We regret any confusion.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 21, 2021

Self-assess podcast (it can be unpublished) through self-created rubric. Combination: Right triangles + Bridge Constructor + Structural Analysis + Flipgrid (see How To Use Flipgrid: A Guide For Teachers ). Combination: Twitter + Spotify + Design. Need to Know Sources (reasons to learn).

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 15, 2022

Grades are not primarily based on "one-and-done" assessments, and early missteps can be corrected and improved without cost to the student's grade. Won't this just allow students to not take assessments seriously? One-and-done assessment is clearly a terrible way to measure student learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

CASEL defines these in terms of specific competencies that can be assessed and mastered: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. . That year, my students would learn how to listen actively, communicate clearly, and control outbursts.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Combined, Faria and Rubicon will serve over 10,000 schools in 130 countries with curriculum support for over 600 academic standards. The new Istation program utilizes Boulder Learning’s FLORA (fluent oral reaching assessment) speech-recognition and assessment product to analyze what students say and how fluently they speak.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2019

Technology is, in fact, already touching nearly every part of our public education system, from assessments to communication to professional learning. It is the reason that our schools emphasize skills like research and how to navigate disparate information and construct logical arguments.

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