Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Blend that concept into your classroom. Common Core expect students to write-edit-resubmit. The Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice is a good starting point. Post these on the classroom wall. They often pick a relationship or comparison you wouldn’t think of. Any golfers?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 7, 2015

Bad teaching in classroom = “crisis.” ” The Common Core standards are supposed to be about bigger ideas and fewer of them? . … The U.S. has more memorizers than most other countries in the world. via [link]. Image credit: maths , Sean MacEntee. Related Posts. Math lacks a fundamental narrative.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

They then estimated NAEP equivalent scores for the exams and mapped the outcomes onto a graph depicting how their proficiency levels measured in comparison. Yet, Carr is hopeful about the trend toward higher standards, noting that more rigorous classroom work might come out of it. “I

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N2Y

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

They need their teacher to set up structured opportunities for them to explore fraction comparison with these manipulatives. Offer standard and nonstandard tools to measure the distance around the classroom. Some states follow Common Core and some do not. Use anything from yardsticks or measuring tapes to shoes or chairs.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 20, 2016

In case your administrator wants to see how blogging relates to the Common Core State Standards, you can use these for reference: WS 11-12.4: Blogging Tools Comparison Chart. Reflecting on learning can only deepen it. This type of assessment will give a more authentic picture of your students' mastery. WS 11-12.6:

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2018

In the last five years, there have been some remarkable shifts in the tools educators use in the classroom and to perform their many responsibilities. We’ve seen the market fluctuate dramatically, as early iPad-dominated classrooms gave way to the rise of Google. At the beginning, these conversations can pinpoint needs.

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Gaggle Speaks

APRIL 1, 2016

Both admin and teachers can also see where their students fall in comparison to other Newsela students in regards to reading-level achievements and Common Core standards. All pre-loaded prompts are Common Core-aligned. Write About This. With this simple app, students become digital authors. on Amazon.com.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. That was certainly the case in our experience. You can now find out.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

During a past professional development workshop, the consultant informed us at one point to end independent reading in our classrooms. Some students will utilize this time effectively, but in my experience as a classroom teacher and principal, it is the students that need our guidance the least that do well with silent reading.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Students in Kelly McCarthy’s first-grade classroom end the period with a vocabulary word game. If it were using a Common Core test, for example, New York City could be compared to other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco, Washington and Boston. You can see the national Common Core standards in action at Franklin.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Given that most older children and teens play digital games outside of school— according to one study , 99% of boys and 94% of girls aged 12 - 17 play at least 7-10 hours per week—it’s no surprise that game-based learning is proving to be an effective classroom tool. Our classrooms can too.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Create Multimedia eBooks in a 1 iPad Classroom by Wesley Fryer Enhanced eBooks on iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches can include audio, video, and interactive animations in addition to digital text, images and links. Learn how to evaluate digital games for effectiveness in the classroom and learn the difference between an App and a Game.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

Welcome to a series that supports the use of technology in support of differentiated learning in and beyond the PBL classroom. As I explored the idea of technology, PBL, and the differentiated classroom I needed find some common connections and categories. I needed to reflect on what this really meant before going any further.

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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

It allows for an apples to apples comparison.” Amy Black, first-grade teacher, leads centers in her classroom at Our Lady of Hungary School. So the district began looking for a solution that kept up with the changes in the Common Core and included the language component that’s so important for problem solving and critical thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Teachers participate in a Common Core training session in Kingsport, Tenn. But deciding if they can teach in diverse classrooms and schools has been left to the professional judgement of each institution. Related: On a classroom-based test for new teachers, black teachers score lower. There is much work to do.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. ” The “war” extends beyond the productivity suite of tech tools and it extends beyond operating system in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Estonian schools are often economically integrated, so poor and rich students are frequently in the same classrooms. By comparison, in the United States, students do not get the same educational experience. And students still take a common set of courses that makes sure students have basic skills in all subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

The goal, though, is to create a common “test” — often in the form of a project — that can be given to students in different classrooms across the state and used to help compare the performance of schools and districts. Related: Do the arts go hand in hand with Common Core? As they discovered, that’s not so simple.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In addition to her work in the classroom, Jess was a part of the first cohort of Heinemann Fellows, she has written for several literacy-related publications and writes on her own blog regularly at crawlingoutoftheclassroom.wordpress.com. Let’s give teachers a peek into what you’re doing in your classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Our 4 million kinders will leave public school in 2029 having spent more than 16,000 hours of their lives doing mandatory classroom time, and if they are lucky, they will enter the job market sometime in the 2030s. They will be joining the other 47 million students already in U.S. public schools and learning what it means to be a student.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. ” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? “The tutor taught her some of the basic skills that the child wasn’t getting in her whole language classroom,” he said.

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