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Human Geography Cornerstone Assessment @BullisSchool: Megacity Project Using @Weebly, @SutoriApp, @GoogleMaps #edtech

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This final cornerstone assessment engages students in an extended study analyzing how megacities are transforming the world. What we learned – and will do better in the future – is that students need detailed guidelines on what this documentation process should look like. Robby’s Megacity Project on Shanghai.

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Strategies for Surviving All Types of Assessments

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Whether you are a first-year teacher or a veteran teacher, classroom and system-wide assessments can be a time of high anxiety and stress for everyone involved. in School Counseling Program, Freed-Hardeman University, TN, lays out strategies and ground rules for what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to assessments.

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Why Is It so Hard to Teach K-12 Educators How to Personalize Learning?

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In Fall 2017, our program began a fully online cohort and I am redesigning a course for the program called “Digital Innovative Schools,” which focuses on the change needed in current K-12 schools. There were my guidelines. My official title is “lecturer,” but that is a far cry from how I teach.

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Using Inclusive Technology to Break Barriers and Empower Learners

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The CITES framework encompasses six integral components: Leadership Infrastructure Teaching Learning Assessment Family Engagement To facilitate swift adoption and integration, each facet of the framework is readily available on the CAST Center on Inclusive Technology & Education Systems website.

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The Value of Listening in the Classroom: How to Teach Your Students Active Listening

Waterford

Guidelines for Developing Listening Skills. Teaching How to Listen: Blended Learning for the Development and Assessment of Listening Skills in a Second Language. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 2017, 14(1), pp. A Cognitive-Attentional Perspective on the Psychological Benefits of Listening. 2010, 2(3), pp.

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Universal prekindergarten is coming to California — bumpy rollout and all

The Hechinger Report

A 2017 study of California’s pre-expansion transitional kindergarten programs found that children who attended were better prepared for kindergarten than those who didn’t. Done right, it gives children time to develop the emergent literacy, social-emotional and fine motor skills needed to succeed in kindergarten. The bill Gov.

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?A Playbook to Go Open: 5 Steps to Adopting OER

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As momentum for digital learning builds, some districts—80 percent according to the 2017 Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) K12 IT Leadership Survey Report —are using open educational resources (OER), which the U.S. Once you’ve defined your first program, the next step should be to assess technology infrastructure.

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