User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Design thinking is an approach to learning that includes considering real-world problems, research, analysis, conceiving original ideas, lots of experimentation, and sometimes building things by hand. I use the following activities to introduce elementary students to the design thinking process. from the d-school).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This shortcoming means that, every year, nearly 100,000 elementary teachers across the country enter classrooms with false assurances that they are ready to teach reading. Key national findings: Of the 25 elementary teacher reading licensure tests in use by states, the majority (15) are weak.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Using Claim-Evidence-Question at the Elementary Level Literature Analysis: After reading a story or book, students make a claim about a central theme or main character’s motivations, provide evidence from the text, and pose questions about the main idea or character.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Vernier Video Analysis ® app and new e-book help students learn important physics concepts in both in-person and remote learning environments. Students can now learn key physics concepts and engage in video analysis in both in-person and remote learning environments. About Vernier Software & Technology.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their feet dangling from the chairs. “It In elementary schools across the country, an incident as common as a playground fracas over a football could result in kids being suspended. JOHNSBURG, Ill. —

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Expanding upon its award-winning Vernier Graphical Analysis app, Vernier Software & Technology is launching the Vernier Graphical Analysis Pro app to engage students—either remotely or in the lab—in more advanced analysis of data from biology, chemistry, and physics experiments. About Vernier Software & Technology.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2024

But the ESSER “funding cliff” — the fall deadline for districts to allocate money from the final disbursement of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief grants — isn’t a singular culprit behind the staff cuts that are rolling out around the country. In many cases, that means educator layoffs are coming.

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Waterford

JULY 7, 2022

Family partnerships formed during elementary school years build a strong foundation for future student success and continued engagement.[6] Analysis of Parental Involvement and Self-Esteem on Secondary School Students in Kieni West Sub-County, Nyeri County, Kenya.” Wairimu, M.J., Macharia, S.M., Sheldon, S. B., & Jung, S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2021

If you’re ready to help elementary-aged children understand financial literacy, Vault is the perfect course for you. Grade level: elementary grades. Students will apply scientific thinking, geometry, and data analysis to this experience. Grade Level: Elementary School. Grade Level: 9-12. Idea #3: Vault. Grade Level: 4-7.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 6, 2019

A recent coaching visit with Corinth Elementary School placed me in a position to model all of the above. What was powerful from my seat was that most of the feedback I had written down didn't have to be delivered verbally by me as the educators offered it up themselves upon critical analysis of their lessons.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Students in upper elementary and beyond “do little writing in or out of school for academic purposes” (Graham & Harris, 2019). The Effects of Writing on Learning in Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics: A Meta-Analysis. Writing to read: A meta-analysis of the impact of writing and writing instruction on reading.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2023

History curriculum and professional development supporting discussion-based primary source analysis online and in other learning settings. During the grant project, VHS Learning will design 33 primary source analysis lessons within a cohesive, newly-developed U.S. History curriculum.” History curriculum.

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eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2024

All our students should have access to a school library and a certified librarian to help improve reading levels and foster critical thinking and source analysis. As we examine elementary school library best practices, we realize the true purpose of a school library is not limited to one specific idea.

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Libraries Analysis Outcomes Elementary 133

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A new meta-analysis confirms that the answer is no. The reading panel’s meta-analysis of 52 studies showed that phonemic awareness instruction was almost twice as effective when letters were presented along with the sounds. So it’s impossible to say from this meta-analysis exactly how much sound training students need.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 30, 2022

I understand and believe in value of learning through board games, and have incorporated them into my classrooms – both elementary and higher education – throughout my decades long teaching career. Research indicates that there is power in using board games in the classroom.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The National Reading Panel conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis involving 52 peer-reviewed studies that examined the efficacy of phonemic awareness (PA) instruction (Ehri et al. ’s meta-analysis strongly validates the indispensable role of PA instruction in fostering reading skills, with increased efficacy under certain conditions.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2024

For more news on reading policy, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page New data and analysis from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) show that while many states seek to improve literacy outcomes for students, they focus too little on a key component to strong implementation and sustainability: effective teachers.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 1, 2019

But in the first multi-state effort to measure textbook efficacy since the implementation of the Common Core, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University saw no difference in the average fourth- and fifth-grade math achievement gains of schools using different elementary math textbooks.

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Common Core Elementary Outcomes Report 321

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In a new analysis, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that most states (29 states and the District of Columbia) use a weak elementary teacher reading licensure test, meaning that they do not effectively measure teachers’ knowledge of scientifically based reading instruction prior to entering the classroom.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I embarrassed myself early enough into the game to recognize I needed to do what I always did in elementary school gym class: fade into the background until no one noticed I was sitting on the bench. If this is what they’re doing when they play a game, imagine the level of analysis that goes into watching one.

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Analysis Social Media Groups Classroom 186

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Meanwhile, just nine states require that districts adopt high-quality reading curriculum, NCTQ’s analysis found. An analysis by Education Week found that 32 states and the District of Columbia have adopted new reading laws since 2013, but NCTQ found many of these states still had major gaps in teacher preparation or curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Learning to read well in elementary school matters. A separate December 2022 analysis calculated that if recent academic losses from the pandemic were to become permanent, it would add up to $900 billion in lower lifetime earnings for the 48 million students in public schools. After children learn to read, they read to learn.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 2, 2014

Image credit: [link] Scaffold 1 & 2: Student Generated Exemplars and Writing the “Recipe” for Literary Analysis First, Mrs. Westbrook created a task that required students to identify and interpret the underlying meaning of a piece of literature and then to make arguments about it. It also provided clarity for targeted feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Using I Used to Think…Now I Think… at the Elementary Level Science Experiment: After conducting a simple science experiment, the teacher could ask students to reflect on their initial hypotheses and compare them with the outcomes. This promotes an understanding of ecological relationships.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The grantees—who represent a range of grade levels and geographic regions—will each receive $1,000 in Vernier technology of their choosing, a one-year subscription to Vernier Graphical Analysis Pro, and three hours of virtual professional development to further support their teaching. The grantees are: Elementary School.

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Software Technology Elementary Education 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading. However, before the courts resolved that legal question, the litigants settled the case in 2020. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The settlement itself was noteworthy.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Cyberbullying, increasingly more common, occurred at least once per week in 37 percent of middle schools, 25 percent of high schools, and 6 percent of elementary schools. The analysis revealed that any association with bullying increased the odds of school absences due to illness and truancy.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

We based our research on an analysis of gifted placements in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study , which tracked a nationally representative sample of kindergartners throughout elementary school. The Black-White Gap in Gifted Identification. This is a startling finding.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2019

Department of Education, supporting instruction for elementary and secondary students as well as adults. The Rhode Island Department of Education , for example, announced plans to use its $500,000 grant to launch an internship program to place students in cybersecurity and data analysis apprenticeships.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But the analysis also warns that schools must prepare for closures due to heat-induced power outages or poor air quality. “In They found that standardized test scores dropped across grade levels following the storms, and that elementary students scored progressively worse on tests for each of the three years following Hurricane Matthew.

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Education Analysis Report Elementary 180

eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2022

Small Elementary School in South Portland, Maine. In fact, a review of Educational Research analysis found that strong teacher-student relationships were associated in both the short- and long-term with improvements. Here’s how I’m using instructional audio as a second-grade teacher at Dora L. Come on down!”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” That was in 2017. “It It began to become emotionally draining.

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Assessment Analysis Trends Study 161

eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

The new data and analysis examines both the academic admissions requirements and diversity in enrollments in more than 1,200 of the nation’s elementary teacher preparation programs.

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Elementary Analysis Assessment Data 116

My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

I had writing assignments with menus instead of prompts, but all of the kids were reading the same text and writing some form of an analysis. My challenge, now working in elementary school as a push-in tech teacher, how can I develop and model the possibilities of choice based learning for the teachers I work with?

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 26, 2020

More than half of those surveyed teach in public schools (66 percent) and more than half are elementary school teachers (60 percent). Adaptive tools – Technology that modifies the presentation of material in response to an analysis of student performance. ClassTag surveyed more than 1,200 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To help her along, the teacher at her Bay Area elementary school has been showing her the right way to hold a pencil. percent in the 2022-2023 school year compared with the 2019-2020 school year, according to an Associated Press analysis of state-level data. She knew only a handful of numbers and was not printing her letters clearly.

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techlearning

MAY 8, 2018

BEAVERTON, Oregon, May 8, 2018 — The new Vernier Thermal Analysis Plus for FLIR ONE app from Vernier Software & Technology allows students to use the latest versions of FLIR ONE cameras—the FLIR ONE Pro Thermal Camera and FLIR ONE Gen 3 Thermal Camera—as they study thermal energy concepts. These investigations include: ? in the App Store.

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