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Cultivating Lifelong Learners: How to Support Personalized Teacher Growth

A Principal's Reflections

In a world of standardized tests and rigid curricula, fostering a culture of continuous, personalized growth for teachers allows them to stay abreast of current trends and effective strategies, maximize time, and become the best iteration of themselves for the learners they serve. Efficacy should be the goal of all professional learning.

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3 Strategies to Boost Civics Education

EdTechTeacher

Here are three strategies that you can use to foster those skills in your classroom. STRATEGY 1: PRACTICE HEALTHY CIVIL DISCOURSE. Here are some classroom strategies to foster civil discourse: Civil discourse in action. STRATEGY 2: USE EXCITING RESOURCES THAT ENHANCE ENGAGEMENT. Why not employ these strategies for civics?

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Charting a Student's Journey: A Guide to Crafting Effective Learning Paths

A Principal's Reflections

2009), researchers found that personalized learning, with a focus on allowing students to set their own pace, led to improved academic outcomes. Varying paths often incorporate continuous assessment and feedback mechanisms , which play a pivotal role in the learning process. In a study conducted by Means et al.

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Self-Regulation in Blended Learning Environments

Catlin Tucker

In classrooms where students are told what to do and how to do each task, they may not have the opportunity to develop the initiative, resourcefulness, and persistence needed to develop their ability to self-regulate (Zimmerman & Moylan, 2009). Blended Learning Environments Require Self-regulation Skills.

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3 Months, 3 Micro-credentials, 1 Teacher: Building Performance Assessment Capacity in Georgia

Digital Promise

In that capacity, she is participating—along with eighty or so of her Henry County colleagues—in the Assessment for Learning micro-credential project , led by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE). In June, she submitted evidence for and earned all the micro-credentials in the full stack , “Leading a Performance Assessment Community.”

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How Family Engagement Leads to Student Success

Waterford

It’s one of the best strategies to create a positive learning environment for all students. Try these family engagement strategies to transform involvement into family partnerships: Give families and caregivers your contact information and get to know them early in the school year. Developmental psychology, 2009, 45(3), 740-63.

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Strategies for Surviving All Types of Assessments

edWeb.net

Whether you are a first-year teacher or a veteran teacher, classroom and system-wide assessments can be a time of high anxiety and stress for everyone involved. in School Counseling Program, Freed-Hardeman University, TN, lays out strategies and ground rules for what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to assessments.