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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

Formative assessment is a process of gathering information about students’ understanding and their progress toward firm standards-aligned learning goals. Formative assessment helps teachers gauge how effective their instruction has been at helping students learn concepts and apply skills.

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Creative Fabrica–the Perfect Solution for Teachers, Creators, and Anyone In a Hurry

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Between newsletters for parents, announcements on social media, communications for students and parents, and more, it became a challenge to demonstrate the excitement and engagement of learning through what could be boring tools. You can search by keyword, category, or filter options.

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How to Teach Venn Diagrams to Elementary School Students

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A Venn diagram is a plot of overlapping circles that can display items via specific categories, as well as relationships. Firstly, it allows you to project what you’re describing on your smartboard or interactive whiteboard, allowing you to demonstrate to the class what you mean. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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Tech Tip #43: Backup Your Work Often

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In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Category: Maintenance, Security, Email.

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Creating Conditions for Powerful Technology Use

Digital Promise

Instructional technology is a critical component of teaching and learning in today’s world. Technology, when aligned to research-based practices, supports teachers in delivering instruction that is adapted to meet the needs of all students. However, it’s not enough for teachers to simply use technology tools.

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6 Digital tools that help teachers create effective rubrics

Neo LMS

A solution comes from rubrics, which are benchmarks used in grading to help assess students’ learning. Also, rubrics help teachers provide objective feedback to students , facilitating the desired outcome, which is deep learning. Read more: What is the role of rubrics in performance-based education? Quick Rubric.

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How to Let Students Guide Science Learning with Challenge Based Learning

Digital Promise

Especially to those who have curated their lessons to satisfy so many different objectives, it can feel risky to give up some structure and allow students a significant degree of choice and control over their learning. Teachers’ new lessons gave students more opportunities to guide their own learning. Letting go can be scary.

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