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Improving Instruction in a Digital World

A Principal's Reflections

The Rigor and Relevance Framework —an action ­oriented continuum that describes putting knowledge to use—gives teachers and administrators a way to develop both instruction and assessment while providing students with a way a way to project learning goals. Learning must always be relevant, meaningful, and applicable.

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How to Blend DoK into Lesson Plans without a Comprehensive Rewrite

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There are several concepts that address this reform in teaching (such as Art Costa’s Habits of Mind , Bloom’s Taxonomy , the Hess Cognitive Rigor Matrix , or the tech-oriented SAMR Model ). They may memorize a calculus formula (which I’ll stipulate is beyond difficult), but it doesn’t represent rigorous thinking.

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How to Use Google Sheets in the K-12 Classroom

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Finally, if you need fancy charts, Sheets may not be your program. Excel has more types of charts, more options for formatting those charts, and more flexibility to quickly change their layouts and styles. Charts can be edited, formatted, inserted into reports, and shared. How to Create a Chart Really Fast.

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Georgia Parents’ Ultimate Guide to Prepare your Child for Georgia Milestones Testing

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Ask them to set a goal that is relevant to them. You can keep a chart to track their total study time or testing progress, anything that will help motivate them and keep their eye on the prize. Check out the other articles on our blog for Georgia State Assessment preparation tips, tricks, and best practices.

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What Would Dewey Do? Quotes…Ideas…Resources for Genuine Learning

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First, please take a moment to subscribe to this blog by RSS or email and join me on twitter at mjgormans . It really connects kids to awesome, engaging, rigorous, and relevant projects. Relevant Nouns (facts) – research, planets, solar system. These are PBL projects made by teachers for teachers!

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Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book

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Because of this very different tone and purpose as a matter of design, it’s unfair to criticize videos as “less rigorous” than texts, just as it would be misleading to say that video is universally “more engaging” than text (something I may or may not have said in the past). Begin KWL chart. Clarify (e.g.,

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Building Science Confidence with Inquiry-Based Learning

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Rather than completing the standard pie chart, they make the call about what they want to see, analyze, visualize, and create, and how they want to document it all. Maybe they will design a dot plot or make a bar chart to chart data derived from their mathematical and computational thinking.