eSpark

APRIL 14, 2022

What it is: Students are more likely to be engaged in their learning when allowed some say in what they’re studying. Your class could volunteer and summarize their experience in a group presentation. Guiding Questions: How can my students provide peer feedback? Students participate in a writing workshop.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

“You can’t actually function in a purely academic zone without also developing the sensibilities, orientations, behaviors and strategies that all of us use to navigate our everyday lives.” In response, members of the group hold up a hand sideways and gently wag their fingers in a gesture of affirmation. Hands go up. “So

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. Children sat together in small groups at tables and on the floor with large sheets of paper and markers spread out between them. BERWYN, Ill. —

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Now, imagine you have been tasked with taking care of this group for the next eight hours. The maximum legal adult-to-child ratio for groups that could include 2-year-olds in these states is set at a maximum of 1:12—the highest in the nation. For groups where at least some of the children are 2.5- Read the whole series.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Dressed in suits and armed with pens, notebooks, and laptops, the superintendents had one specific goal as they fanned out across the classroom, interacting with students: to look for evidence that a geometry lesson was aligned to the new state math standards. one superintendent asked a group. You’re all working together?”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 10, 2015

How To Add Rigor To Any Lesson, Unit, Or Assessment. And more importantly, how can you use to promote understanding? Study nuance. This can be done first in small groups, then socialized to larger groups (hopefully outside the classroom). The post How To Add Rigor To Anything appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. The problem is that many schools haven’t figured out how to leverage technology to accelerate and enrich learning. Tackling these challenges pays off.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

Children sat together in small groups at tables and on the floor with large sheets of paper and markers spread out between them. In the past few years, researchers have begun exploring how to take advantage of that powerful preschool bump, especially in math, while also ensuring students who didn’t go to preschool could catch up.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

But while standardized test scores might improve, a recent study found that in 63% of classrooms, students aren’t using technology to “solve problems, conduct research, or to work collaboratively.” Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Explore a demo of Frontier.

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EdTech Academic Standards Social Media Technology 159

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 10, 2021

How To De-Industrialize School: An Agrarian Learning Model. How To Design A School That Would Never Fail. We could even get more specific–a possible goal being ‘to expose students to academic content in groups of 30,’ we’d still be doing exceptionally well.

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Learning Industry Academic Standards Assessment 128

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In the past, student work has ranged from the cutting edge to the routine, from creating a measuring tool that uses lasers to estimate the length of great white sharks to teaching officials in Longmont, the district’s main city, how to better use smartphones in their jobs. Today the group has swelled to 13 members and includes girls.). “We

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 16, 2015

In the TeachThought Learning Taxonomy , we approached this idea, and did so again with How To Add Rigor To Anything. Using “Universal Strategies” So how can this help you as an educator? If they have trouble, offer them three choices that align with your curriculum or given academic standards.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Rethinking Success in a Supportive Climate As a first step, Sanborn ditched its traditional, letter-based grading system and instead adopted a set of rubrics that reflect a student’s competency on state and district academic standards. They dubbed the behaviors “Work-Study Practices” (WSP).

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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 81

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

Yet it’s hard to determine from looking at the state’s testing data how successful schools have been in closing the achievement gap between these students and their peers since Common Core was implemented. Unlike groups based on race or disability or other factors, English learners are, by definition, a transient group.

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Common Core Data Elementary Groups 41

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A. high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers.

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Education Strategy Report Training 110

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Part of the time they’re doing group work, and then following it all up at home with practice–or in a flipped setting, reverse it all. No, it’s not feasible for every classroom every day for every age group. What is studied. Yes, you’ve got a pile of academic standards that have to be mastered.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 1, 2015

Even in today’s age of standardized testing and emphasis on academic standards, perhaps even because of this recent emphasis, educators are increasingly aware of the need to nurture students’ complete development. Music, drama, and other arts should be integrated into daily academic work. by Mike Anderson.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

But in those early days, Fair had no idea how to handle her students with disabilities, whose educational challenges ranged from learning deficits to behavioral disturbance disorders. Over time, Fair figured out how to navigate these situations and talk students “down from the ledge.” Educators say little has changed since then.

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Training Elementary Report Course 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

million 12- to 17-year-olds still met the criteria for a substance use disorder in 2014, and studies find that 9 in 10 adults with addiction problems began their chemical dependency before age 18. “My Here’s how to help them. Related: Violent beginnings: How to help preschoolers who witness violence and trauma.

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Report Meeting Study Data 74

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

The consensus among the educators who participated in our focus groups was that making is a way for students to make order out of chaos and that this path is expectedly going to be messy. While most educators in our focus groups expressed similar ideas to Flamm, they did not offer one singular definition of making.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 21, 2021

Combination: Right triangles + Bridge Constructor + Structural Analysis + Flipgrid (see How To Use Flipgrid: A Guide For Teachers ). Design a 6 week project that addresses some self-selected local challenge through collaboration with local experts or entrepreneurs—or groups at an elderly home or related organization, for that matter.

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Learning Analysis Strategy Academic Standards 132

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2022

As a professor of psychology at Cornell University, Sternberg has long studied standardized tests, and concluded they don’t provide much useful information on whether students are learning to think critically and creatively, enabling them to be successful in college, careers and life in general. They are usually solved in groups.

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Assessment Academic Standards Instructional Materials Report 138

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

“Play is not divorced of learning,” said Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, an author, professor of psychology at Temple University, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who has studied child development and the role of play in learning for years. “It It is the natural way in which we learn.”. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Common Core Report Elementary Study 145

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

Linda Darling-Hammond Project Lead the Way, or PLTW as it’s known for short, is a K-12 STEM curriculum that’s big on hands-on learning and having groups of students co-design solutions to science and engineering problems. But Gough maintains that group work isn’t ideal for individual assessments. Their goal? Several U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

While many preschool programs are private and operate under the same conditions as any other child care program, Biden is proposing to vastly expand publicly funded preschools, which are typically free, pay their teachers more and follow a certain set of academic standards. Related: Four ways to rebuild a better early ed system.

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

But while standardized test scores might improve, a recent study found that in 63% of classrooms, students aren’t using technology to “solve problems, conduct research, or to work collaboratively.” How to Empower Effective Teachers. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

But while standardized test scores might improve, a recent study found that in 63% of classrooms, students aren’t using technology to “solve problems, conduct research, or to work collaboratively.” How to Empower Effective Teachers. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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EdTech Academic Standards Chromebook Analysis 40

techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This K-12 ‘data switch’ uses proprietary and open standards to talk to a wide variety of data sources, and merges data into a single store to provide a unified view of educational data - such as achievement, attendance and students at risk - in real time. These workshop modules offers efficiency, flexibility, and choice to Texas teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

“If we were trying to look at eradicating some life-threatening disease, that percentage would be unacceptable,” said Cathy Grace, co-director of the Graduate Center for the Study of Early Learning at the University of Mississippi,and now a candidate for state legislature. Prior to budget negotiations, State Sen.

Elementary 66

Elementary Data Training Report 66

Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “George Mason’s President Says Some Donor Agreements Fell ‘Short’ of Academic Standards.” ” That’s Inder Verma at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. ” The companies in question: Tinitell and Gator Group. Study Says Yes.”

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