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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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Alignment of Data Standards for Describing Learning Objectives When applying the Google Maps metaphor to learner navigation, the points of interest on the map are competencies—the things that a person can learn, such as skills, knowledge, dispositions, and habits of practice. K-12 learners.

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Six Steps to Project Based Learning

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The new legislation urged districts to embrace project based instruction aligned to academic standards and 21st century skills. Luckily, the vast majority of successful project based learning activities share a set of key characteristics that educators can replicate in the classroom and across a district. 1) Essential Question.

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#AskExcelinEd: What is CTE, and how can it serve students in your state?

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research; The rethinking of what authentic work-based learning opportunities mean from a policy perspective; and. ii) provides technical skill proficiency or a recognized postsecondary credential which may include an industry-recognized credential, a certificate, or an associate degree. (ii) Why CTE Matters for Students in Your State.

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30 Universal Strategies For Learning

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30 Universal Strategies For Learning. As teachers, we’re all trying to better understand how people learn–not now they’re taught in terms of teaching strategies, but more so learning strategies–only not really strategies. Learning actions, or cognitive actions. Strategies for learning.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

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Causing others to know something is, in fact, at the core of every single industry. They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. This is not usually something teachers today consider as their purview.

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Can Individual Tests Really Measure Collaboration?

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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. I think there’s more of a question about that. Their goal? Is it important to measure those skills?

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A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

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A State’s college- and career-ready standards must be either (1) standards that are common to a significant number of States; or (2) standards that are approved by a State network of institutions of higher education, which must certify that students who meet the standards will not need remedial course work at the post-secondary level.