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Robotics and Computer Science for Elementary Level Learners

User Generated Education

I absolutely love all of the new robotics toys that have been coming out for elementary age learners. For example, play Mario with a Play-Doh keyboard, or piano with fruit! https://colleengraves.org/2016/04/28/makey-makey-hacked-poetry-month/. One of my gifted girls noted, “Where do all of these robots come from?”

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Amidst Opioid Addiction, Plummeting Morale, One Elementary School Reinvents Itself

Edsurge

When you enter Parker-Varney Elementary School, you are immediately struck by the relaxed atmosphere. One of the most powerful examples of Parker-Varney’s capacity to change are our multi-age grade bands. Our English Language Learners went from 54% proficient in September 2016 to 85% proficient in June 2017.

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How to Maintain Your Students’ Attention in Class

Waterford

Read on to learn more about the average attention span for elementary school students based on current research. What Is the Average Attention Span for Elementary Students? Students in older elementary grades will have longer attention spans than younger students. August 29, 2016. Strategies to Maintain Student Attention.

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Will new standards improve elementary science education?

The Hechinger Report

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012.

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PROOF POINTS: When schools experimented with $10,000 pay hikes for teachers in hard-to-staff areas, the results were surprising

The Hechinger Report

Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics. Dallas’s experience with pay hikes, by contrast, began as a textbook example of how targeted incentives ought to work.

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The Limits of Curriculum Choice

Digital Promise

But in the first multi-state effort to measure textbook efficacy since the implementation of the Common Core, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University saw no difference in the average fourth- and fifth-grade math achievement gains of schools using different elementary math textbooks.

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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017). As an example, the report highlights the experience of Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation in Indiana, which has embraced universal design for learning in a variety of ways.