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Preparing Students for Online Assessments with Digital Literacy Skills

edWeb.net

Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. Forming Community Partnerships to Access Educational Resources In this course for school leaders, you will explore methods for seeking out and partnering with community members to gain a variety of resources for your school.

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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. UDL is an excellent framework that can be used in any classroom.

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How Co-Teaching Helped Our New Teachers Support Students, In-Person and Online

Edsurge

Eighteen years ago, when I was a student-teacher, I started out by silently sitting in the back of an elementary-grade classroom, watching, observing and taking notes. There were no iPads, no online assessments and no Zoom. For remote learners, we used an online assessment.) And there was no pandemic.

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Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments

EdTech Magazine

As the student progresses, the formative assessments change , at first addressing the areas the student was not familiar with and then evolving as he or she grasps the material. . Microsoft Forms is flexible enough to support formative assessments of an entire grade.

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Code-a-Thon challenges K-8 students to improve coding skills

eSchool News

14-18, 2016 to provide an introduction to coding skills for elementary and middle school students. To participate in the Code-a-Thon, schools simply register to receive free access to EasyTech and EasyCode Basic. Learning.com announces its first Code-a-Thon, a nationwide competition that will run from Nov. 4 to Nov.

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What is the story behind Georgia Test Prep?

Georgia Test Prep

We reached out to some of the parents around us who had kids in Elementary & Middle school and talked to them and concluded that creating an online platform that can address such issues would help parents provide a strong foundation to their children. This web app bridges the gap between the classroom and at-home learning.