The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Amy Stohs. Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. Example 2: My reading or writing workshop starts with a mini lesson on the carpet. Assessments on Fridays: I used to do a quiz in math every other Friday.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Have you ever thought about how the way you grade and assess work, or maybe how the way you are required to grade could be contributing to the game of school? There have been many articles, books, and theories on shifting the way we assess and assign grades. Extra credit tends to play a major role in the secondary world.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2019

Google Keep is also a part of G Suite for Education and is a great tool for students, especially secondary students. You can learn more about this method in my previous post, 4 Ways to Use Google Keep for Feedback and Assessment. I like to use Toby to organize links for lesson plans and workshops that I deliver.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. She has published articles in Educational Leadership, The Learning Professional, and Phi Delta Kappan. To make sure your computer or mobile is configured for Zoom, please visit zoom.us/test.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

Am I doing enough ongoing formal assessment of student comprehension, strategy use, and tolerance of ambiguity? Sitting in on numerous classes over the years reveals a key source of the problem: students are rarely expected to read a multi-page complete non-fiction text and be assessed on their grasp of it as a whole.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

Am I doing enough ongoing formal assessment of student comprehension, strategy use, and tolerance of ambiguity? Sitting in on numerous classes over the years reveals a key source of the problem: students are rarely expected to read a multi-page complete non-fiction text and be assessed on their grasp of it as a whole.

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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

I imagine teachers sitting around tables together, collaborating on lesson plans, activities and assessments. You can go online and find blogs and articles from teachers in the wealthiest and the poorest countries in the world. You can read about experiences teaching in extremely conservative or radically liberal cultures.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. She has published articles in Educational Leadership, The Learning Professional, and Phi Delta Kappan. To make sure your computer or mobile is configured for Zoom, please visit zoom.us/test.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

Wednesday, April 9th at 4pm Thinking Scientifically: Video and Formative Assessment with POPstar Robert Miller , POPstar Robert Miller - an award-winning 5th-grade teacher - hosts this interactive workshop covering inquiry-based science curriculum; the creative use of video; and one of his favorite resources, NSTA’s Formative Assessment Probes.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 6, 2020

I estimate that I have delivered over 250 workshops to about 50,500 educators. I ask at each workshop, “How many of you were well-prepared to enter the classroom when you graduated from your school of education?” ” Everything else is secondary! The vast majority said they weren’t. million trained teachers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This article is part of the upcoming guide, What Does Reading Well Look Like? One of the most impactful activities from my Master’s coursework in secondary English education was a reader biography. Conference and Workshop: NCTE Annual Convention and the ALAN Workshop. Video: Neil Gaiman Reading Agency lecture 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it’s been that way since testing began in the 1990s. “I wouldn’t have been able to use that strategy at the secondary level,” she said.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 17, 2023

The purpose of this article is to provide a few recommendations for each grade band and give you some tools to support readers within different text bands. A word on audio: decoding and comprehension In this article, I am not going to discuss audiobooks or podcasts. I am an avid reader myself reading 1-3 books per week.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: School libraries have evolved to offer students and teachers everything they need See article: Modern students need modern librarians See article: 10 reasons we love school librarians For more news on school libraries, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page What makes an effective school library?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In previous years, when I’ve written about this topic, I’ve saved “The Business of Ed-tech” for one of the last articles in my “ Top Ed-Tech Trends" series. " I will do that in a separate article at the end of the year. This is part three of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The Teacher Influencer Hustle.

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