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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. SEL Courses Assessment Strategies for SEL In this course, you’ll get up to speed on current practices in SEL, including the history and legislation that has propelled it to the forefront of our educational focus.

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6 EdTech Resources and Strategies to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Students

EdTechTeacher

The key strategy to get to this level of understanding involves a tried-and-true instructional practice: formative assessments and feedback. Assessment Strategies and EdTech Resources in Action. Tool: iReady (Adaptive Math/ELA Assessment & Instruction). Educator Strategies: .

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Education Galaxy–Personalized Learning That’s Fun

Ask a Tech Teacher

It’s online assessment, practice, and instruction for K-6 students with a tagline: Curiously fun, amazingly effective, refreshingly affordable. Education Galaxy provides online assessment, practice, and instruction in a highly engaging environment for students. Learning Strategies for your Classroom.

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Reimagining Student Supports in a Year of Distance Instruction

Digital Promise

From our conversations with kindergarten through third grade teachers, literacy coaches, and principals in 17 elementary schools across the country, we highlight below three ways schools are reimagining student supports during a year of distance instruction. Teachers are relying on parents to foster consistent home learning environments.

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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential.

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How Co-Teaching Helped Our New Teachers Support Students, In-Person and Online

Edsurge

Eighteen years ago, when I was a student-teacher, I started out by silently sitting in the back of an elementary-grade classroom, watching, observing and taking notes. There were no iPads, no online assessments and no Zoom. Tonja and I planning what co-teaching strategy to use for our class. And there was no pandemic.

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Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments

EdTech Magazine

As the student progresses, the formative assessments change , at first addressing the areas the student was not familiar with and then evolving as he or she grasps the material. . Microsoft Forms is flexible enough to support formative assessments of an entire grade.

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