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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

K-12 educators are increasingly turning to digital resources to enhance instruction and address student needs. That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms.

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Seven advantages of using digital textbooks in schools

Hapara

E-textbooks also often include digital assessments. Students can take these assessments along the way while they’re reading. Formative assessments in digital textbooks can also break up longer content to make it easier to grasp. You can personalize and differentiate instruction more easily.

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One District's Journey From 'State of Emergency' to Student Success

Edsurge

During the second takeover in June 2017, the South Carolina superintendent declared a “state of emergency” in education. So I developed the Allendale Six instructional process: bell to bell instruction. performing formative assessments. standards-based instruction. student-centered instruction.

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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. Adaptive teaching in literacy instruction: Case studies of two teachers. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. Doctoral Dissertation. Democracy and education.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of student Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your students as individual learners through differentiated instruction.

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Meeting the Educational Challenges of COVID-19 Together

MIND Research Institute

The study looked at data for over five million students in grades 3 through 8 who had taken NWEA’s MAP Growth assessments in 2017-2018. CoSN 2018-2019 infrastructure survey. Reimagining the role of technology in education: 2017 national education technology plan update. Facts and fiction about the so-called summer slide.

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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

One morning in 2019, close to 40 educators gathered in a commercial building on the Chicago riverfront that houses the offices of LEAP Innovations. As part of their jobs, special education teachers assess students and develop teaching plans based on each student’s skill levels. Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.