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How To Engage Today’s Students in Civics

eSchool News

In 2022, only 22% of students scored “proficient” or higher on a nationwide civics assessment. history in every grade, with a focus on primary source documents such as the Declaration of Independence, U.S. He is the author of Images of America: Sutton (2004) and Images of America: Millbury (2013).

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Nureva achieves ISO/IEC 27001 certification for its Information Security Management System

eSchool News

an innovator in advanced audio conferencing solutions, announces that its Information Security Management System (ISMS) has received ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification , the world’s best-known standard for information security management. Calgary, Alberta — Nureva Inc.,

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. The importance of adaptability for teachers is well documented in the research literature (e.g., 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Madda et al.,

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

Edsurge

Five years ago, the application of data and algorithms to the HR function—as well the use of pre-hire assessment—were in a fledgling stage. Then came the pandemic and even steeper drops that “show no signs of recovery from 2020” as documented by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center and other sources.

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Three Things Teachers Need to Spot—and Stop—Plagiarism

Edsurge

Ask any educator who teaches five classes of 30 students each per day; there’s a lot of homework to assess. Plagiarism-detection software can address the most pressing needs of classroom educators faced with assessing students’ written work. The Challenge: When identifying plagiarism, teachers need to be confident in their assessment.

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10 Options for Polls and Forms in Your Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

Collecting class data, asking for feedback on activities, and pushing out quizzes used to be laboriously accomplished by passing out paper documents, collecting them as they dribbled in, and then collating the data into a spreadsheet where you could sort and shake to come up with the useful information. Google Forms. Survey Monkey.

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5 Tips To Improve Your Teaching And Boost Your Career

EdNews Daily

Using whichever format you prefer (paper notebook, Word document, Evernote), keep track of the lesson plans you teach and how they go. It’s often possible to further your training while continuing to teach thanks to self-paced online courses: for example, this comprehensive prep course for Praxis Core exams and Subject Assessments.

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