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How Using Slack Can Improve Socratic Seminars

Edsurge

Our interest in academic discourse, and by extension Socratic seminars, stems from our work as Hollyhock fellows at Stanford’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. The fellowship is a two-year program of professional development designed to combat the teacher retention problem, primarily in low-income schools.

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Choosing the Best Overhead Classroom Projector: 5 Key Factors to Consider

ViewSonic Education

When one classroom or seminar room is used by multiple professors or teachers in a day, having a projector with multiple connectivity options, like HDMI and VGA, ensures seamless connection and content sharing without compatibility issues. Seminar Room & Huddle Space Overhead projector has long been used in a seminar room.

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CAE Presents Case For Authentic Assessment To Improve Student Outcomes At Beyond Multiple Choice Seminar

eSchool News

Experts in performance-based assessment share research on student engagement and effort. According to Beyond Multiple Choice, assessments have come increasingly under fire over the past decade, with critics claiming they are overused, inequitably applied, and not aligned with optimal outcomes for training and education.

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Assessment strategies in higher education- What are formative and summative approaches in student assessment?

Linways Technologies

To do so, they need to have a proper assessment strategy in place. In the absence of a clear mapping between program outcomes and assessment tools, student achievement of program outcomes is inaccurate and unreliable. Conscious efforts need to be made to bring application skills or higher cognitive skills to the assessment.

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Communication: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

It is filled with thoughts on Student Communication Skills including “I can” statement(s), classroom attributes, and assessment rubrics. Communication: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education. Make assessment of Communication an ongoing effort. Self assessment can be powerful).

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Choosing Not to Grade Student Work

User Generated Education

I am a seminar facilitator for student teachers, and I teach gifted education at three Title 1 elementary schools. Across education, we’ve normalized absurd levels of grading, test-taking, and standardized assessment. I wear many hats as an educator. I teach graduate courses in education and counseling.

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Balance the Delivery

Ask a Tech Teacher

I found that students were happy using the technology, but some would rather complete work pen to paper or do an assessment/project without the technology. . For those teachers who used Socratic Seminars, this is a great opportunity. However, being a techie, I continually experimented with new applications and, later, the Canvas LMS.