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Fun Assessment for Silent Sustained Reading

Catlin Tucker

The challenge for me was to design an “assessment” that was meaningful. I had tried everything from the traditional book report style assessment to more creative movie trailers, but I didn’t feel like they accomplished what I wanted from a silent sustained reading assessment. Sans the wine, of course.)

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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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Social-Emotional Learning Part III: Responsible Decision Making

Catlin Tucker

Responsible decision-making is the ability to assess a situation, understand the benefits and consequences of different responses, consider what is ethical and safe, and make kind and productive choices. When the class has defined a set of class agreements, document those expectations for behavior and post them, so they are easy to reference.

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Assessing Students Over Time and Also Saving Teachers’ Time

edWeb.net

Now educators can make their instruction more effective and provide practice linked directly to progress monitoring and formative assessment results using free digital tools from Microsoft. Documenting Progress and Integrating the Process.

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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. Unfortunately, stats are even worse in other subjects. Restoring the City on a Hill: U.S.

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Free Digital Formative Assessment Tools… Important Thoughts Before Implementing

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

As you might know there are some amazing formative assessment tools on the web. I am almost booked through August and am already taking fall dates for 2015 – Mike. Free Digital Formative Assessment Tools… Important Thoughts Before Implementing - Michael Gorman ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com ) . Create A Survey.

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Top 15 Alice Keeler Posts of 2015

Teacher Tech

2015 was a good year! Here are my top 15 blog posts for 2015 15: 5 Ways to Make Professional Looking Google Documents 14: 3 Things to Wrap Up Google Classroom for the Summer 13: Google Classroom – Using RubricTab to Assess Students 12: Google Classroom: Using a Writing Journal 11: Google Classroom: Posting a […].

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