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11 Ways to Add #Inquiry to Your Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

You had lesson plans to get through, standards to assess, meetings to attend, parents to council, and state-wide tests that students must do well on. Until a colleague mentioned the inquiry-based classroom, where teaching’s goal was not the solution to a problem but the path followed. Inquiry-based classrooms share knowledge.

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5 Activities to teach your students how to spot fake news

Neo LMS

As such, the tools that we need to teach our students are the same ones that we use to help them to assess information and conduct their own research for assignments. . With all of this in mind, how to approach this topic in the classroom? The News Comparison exercise. Five activities to teach students how to spot fake news.

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Data really is the secret sauce in the K-12 classroom

eSchool News

We were collecting data from a variety of assessments, but the interventions we were using just weren’t showing that students were making consistent progress as readers. In fact, a comparison of NWEA reading test results from SY 2019-20 to SY 2022-23 showed K-5 students went from 37 percent at or above norms of growth rate to 93 percent.

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Stop working off a deficit model with 3 assessment ideas that support student individuality

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Lindsey Lush. I have a SMART Board in my classroom. Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No, it sure isn’t.”.

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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

Edsurge

As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. We also suggest emailing researchers for access to journal articles that are behind paywalls. (If The list goes on.

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Stop working off a deficit model with 3 assessment ideas that support student individuality

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Lindsey Lush. I have a SMART Board in my classroom. Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No, it sure isn’t.”.

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Young students less prepared for grade-level reading, math

eSchool News

Those children, who were ages 1 to 4 at the start of the pandemic, are coming to school less prepared and lagging behind expectations with signs of a slow recovery,” said Dr. Kristen Huff, vice president of assessment and research at Curriculum Associates. points, respectively, from 2019 to 2023.

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