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Testing Literacy Today Requires more than a Pencil and Paper

Digital Promise

The results of large-scale tests may be used by schools or policy-makers to make important decisions such as grouping students by ability or assessing how well schools are doing. Across Canada, researchers and educators have documented the need to transform how the provinces assess literacy and consider more innovative designs.

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How Parent Empowerment Can Change Your Classroom for the Better

Waterford

In a cross-analysis of fifty different studies, researchers found a strong link between parent engagement and student achievement.[8] 8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9]. Sheldon, S. and Jung, S.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

In the show, I talked about teacher Emily Hardeman (@ EmilyBHardeman ) sharing her story of kids loving the reading intervention group she's created for them. Students Perform on the Most Recent Assessments?” Norbert College where she taught the course Language Analysis and Applied Linguistics. Look at the 5 steps.

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The ultimate guide to authentically creating a secondary classroom where students feel safe, welcome, & whole

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This is especially true for secondary students. Younger learners are used to SEL (socio-emotional learning) practices like sharing circles and morning meetings; these procedures tend to fade away as students get older and into more specialized secondary content. Upper right: green (work alone) / stripes (work in groups).

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What is Active Learning? And Why it Matters

ViewSonic Education

Primary and secondary schools are swiftly responding to the evidence in support of active learning. To group work and technology-based learning. Then, students work in pairs or small groups. Small group discussion. ” Short written responses are a great way to review materials and assess student understanding.

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Thoughts on Continuous Improvement and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. RISE is the analysis that identifies which content needs work (you can read more about RISE here ). Finally, we align each assessment item with the outcome it is designed to assess.

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Turn the Page: Looking Beyond the Textbook for Culturally-Responsive Curriculum

Edsurge

This responsibility goes far beyond ensuring factual accuracy; it extends to creating culturally-responsive curriculum that not only integrates the experiences of diverse cultures and historically underrepresented groups, but also actively engages cultural learning styles and scaffolds students toward freedom of thought and independence.

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