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The Growing Potential of Micro-Credentials

A Principal's Reflections

She also includes a very short screencast that provides an overview of how to use each tool and a brief written description of how the tool can be used and how the tool can be integrated effectively into the curriculum through the Common Core. Upon receiving documentation, she issues a digital badge for their learning.

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College Board Scrutinized for Security Breaches on SAT Test in Asia

Marketplace K-12

The news agency says it identified eight occasions since late 2013 when test material was being improperly circulated online before the SAT was given in Asia. Last year, Pearson was heavily criticized amid revelations its oversaw the monitoring of social media and websites to try to gain intel on the sharing of common-core testing content.

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

All three new tests are more rigorous than the old GED and were designed to mirror the changes in traditional high schools with the introduction of Common Core standards. In 2013, the number of GED degrees was higher than usual because there was a big push to get more adults to take the old GED before it was phased out.

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An instructional development framework for developing 21st Century skills in the University

Connecting 2 the World

While the common core curriculum was designed to address this gap between the academic and workplace skill development, the implementation of K-12 curriculum has focused on assessment and standardized teaching rather than development of the of workplace “soft-skills”. and mathematical reasoning (Hilborn and Friedlander).

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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

Technology Integration and the Common Core by Andrew Miller The CCSS call us to integrate technology in intentional and meaningful ways to have students meet rigorous standards. See examples at varying grade levels of successful PBL projects aligned to Common Core and ISTE NET Standards and for various subject areas.

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How to Use Oral Presentations to Help English Language Learners Succeed

MindShift

Additionally, t he Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards specifically focus on oral presentations. Novelty —Mixing up how students present (in small groups, in pairs, individually) and what they use to present (a poster, a paper placed under the document camera, props, a slide presentation, etc.) We then post Figure 30.2

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Game Changer: When teachers prove they can teach all kinds of students

The Hechinger Report

Teachers participate in a Common Core training session in Kingsport, Tenn. However, Richard Ingersoll’s research has documented small but steady increases in the number of candidates of color over the last decade. It focuses on lesson planning, instruction, assessment and academic language – all in support of student learning.