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Differentiating Instruction in Kindergarten and Elementary Grades with Laura Robb

The CoolCatTeacher

From how to form reading groups, how to reach individual children, and how to communicate with parents, Dr. Robb's advice is practical and extensive. This episode also includes a transcript on differentiating instruction. The free differentiation tool to help students level up and learn.

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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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The Future is Now: Preparing Our Youngest Scholars for a Digital World

The CoolCatTeacher

But it stands to reason that we must help students know how to effectively use these tools so they do not hinder and that they help But do they know how to use technology effectively? And how much is too much? Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones.

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Seven advantages of using digital textbooks in schools

Hapara

With digital textbooks, students learn how to use technology responsibly and pull information from a variety of digital sources. Digital textbooks teach students how to self-direct their own learning by using note-taking and highlighting tools. Plus, they give students choices about how they want to learn about concepts.

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

Edsurge

And when we walked in and saw that one of the Allendale Six were implemented with fidelity—students doing research on technology, peer collaboration, differentiating instruction to meet students' needs—we celebrated with gift cards donated by local businesses and teacher of the month awards. How did you support your teachers?

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Three Things We Learned at Khan Academy Over the Last Decade

Edsurge

I think we all knew, even back then, that technology could one day deliver on the long-held dream of helping teachers to differentiate instruction for every student. Fast forward to 2019. I, like many teachers, share a deep belief that we should decide how to best meet the needs of students before turning to technology.

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Student teachers fail test about how kids learn, nonprofit finds

The Hechinger Report

A nonprofit organization, Deans for Impact, is working with them toward this goal, and as part of this effort, it administered a test to more than 1,000 teaching students at these six schools in the fall of 2019 to see how much learning science the teacher candidates understood. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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