EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different. Its biggest divergence has to do with physical structure of where learners and teachers are spending the most time, and the disaggregation of the classroom and modification of the grade groupings. Auto-Cohorting.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. But notably, a cohesive opposition movement has failed to materialize, in part because research on its impact in the classroom has generally been positive (or at least neutral ).

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Every crisis creates opportunities, but because of the severity of the pandemic and the conservative nature of schools, the way teachers teach will not be that different from what they did in the classroom before the pandemic, according to Reich.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Beginning that very first year in my Algebra classroom, I've strived to make it easier for educators to design their own curriculum. Khan Academy videos coupled with IXL exercises aligned to standards we were learning in class. To somewhat quote Darth Vader, I found the lack of quality edtech curriculum deeply disturbing.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 20, 2016

Recently I have been helping a number of teachers move from a flipped classroom to the Flipped Mastery classroom. A mastery classroom is difficult to implement because students are not all learning the same thing at the same time. What is a Flipped Mastery Classroom? This is not a new idea. Watch it here.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once. Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. The strategy looks different in every classroom, as does the material that students must master. The students at M.S.

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