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How to Choose the Best Educational Software for Your Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. How to Select the Best Educational Software for Classrooms? This system also frees up time for educators to focus on teaching and providing additional support to students.

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How to Make Standards Mastery Accessible to All

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Before many states adopted extended (accessible) educational standards for students with unique needs, we began developing differentiated materials to provide students with the ability to learn skills, demonstrate knowledge and raise the bar for educational expectations. These standards outline, by grade level, what a student should know.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

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Lindsay Unified has seen significant improvement in academic achievement, graduation rates and the number of students going to college since it created a performance-based system in the mid-2000s. Lindsay High School junior Gaby León demonstrates Lindsay Unified’s learning management system, Empower. Credit: Courtesy Gaby León.

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How to Qualify Online Tutoring Services

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She lives in Illinois with her two-year-old Bridgette (who already knows how to count from one to ten) and a pet dog. Nevertheless, once you have made the decision to hire an online tutor, comes now another hurdle: How can you have the assurance that you are engaging the services of a legitimate and qualified tutor?

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How to Teach the Human Body and 16 Sites to Help

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As students progress through school, they dig deeper into concepts of body systems, organs, cells, diseases, and the importance of good health. There are also lots of teacher resources to help in using this unit such as lesson plans, training, and academic standards met. How the Body Works. BrainPOP Jr.

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How to Redesign Your Report Card Template

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Traditional and Standards-Based Report Cards. In the traditional grading system, letter grades are given for core subjects based on assessments like quizzes, tests, projects, homework, and more. In this system, it’s the teacher who combines assessments and generates the grade. How to Show Soft Skills On Report Cards.

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Looking to Ditch Traditional Grades? Here’s How to Get Stakeholders On Board

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So how to reap the benefits of competency-based education and make sure parents, teachers and other stakeholders are on board? Heyck-Williams says these conferences help families understand the grading system, as students sit down with the data to discuss their strengths and weaknesses. So how to bridge the chasm?

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