A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Not only was I not in classrooms enough, but also the level of feedback provided through the lens of a narrative report did very little to improve teaching and learning both in and out of the classroom. Consider less of a focus on lesson plans and more on assessment by collecting these two weeks into the future.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 7, 2022

Generate result reports to track student progress; . Quizzes are the quickest way to assess student knowledge. Moreover, students can also add attachments to essay assignments such as PowerPoint presentations or Word documents. Students can use the HTML editor to write an essay or upload a document. Offline assignments.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In 2022, only 22% of students scored “proficient” or higher on a nationwide civics assessment. The book calls for a bottom-up approach and delves into recommendations for state and community leaders to reform U.S. Among the book’s recommendations: Require students to pass the U.S.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

see this 2002 Education Week report ). Studies now find that performance assessments “can more authentically evaluate candidates’ readiness for teaching” while lowering the “barriers to entry,” particularly for teachers of color who are in high demand. Good assessments of learning, for students as well as teachers, cost something.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

For example, book reports were typed on the computer instead of handwritten, or math facts were practiced with a math game instead of flash cards. The online research becomes collaborative note-taking as a student group researches a topic and takes notes using a shared document. But that quickly became cumbersome.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 13, 2019

According to a 2018 research report , AI-based technologies are primed to grow within the edtech market by just under 47%. The program is able to assess not only wrong and right answers, but steps taken and hints used and then map that over previous tasks and assessments completed.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As you might know there are some amazing formative assessment tools on the web. Booking Info – Time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page… Please contact me soon if you have an interest. I am almost booked through August and am already taking fall dates for 2015 – Mike. I have done 100?s

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Yet the change isn’t happening fast enough for many parents and researchers who say the tests remain deeply ingrained in the work of school psychologists, in particular, and that they are still regularly misused to gauge young children’s potential and assess whether they are “worthy” of extra help or investment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 20, 2017

How many times have you experienced teachers who based report card grades on how well students complete classwork, homework, and quizzes? For example, a book report may require a certain number of written (or typed) pages or paragraphs rather than evidence that the student drew conclusions and summarized knowledge.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

see this 2002 Education Week report ). Studies now find that performance assessments “can more authentically evaluate candidates’ readiness for teaching” while lowering the “barriers to entry,” particularly for teachers of color who are in high demand. Good assessments of learning, for students as well as teachers, cost something.

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Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

Formative assessments like this NGSS-aligned weather formative assessment. Pre-assessments like this clouds pre-assessment. Here are some tools you can find online to create documents, multimedia and more. If you and a team of educators are interested in writing your own digital book, there are a few options.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“If you teach phonemic awareness, students will learn phonemic awareness,” which isn’t the goal, said Tiffany Peltier , a learning scientist who consults on literacy training for teachers at NWEA, an assessment company. “If The post PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. The post AI might disrupt math and computer science classes – in a good way appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Five years ago, I published a book on the future of university credentials, making some predictions about what seemed likely to come next in the market for degrees and emerging forms of alternative college credentials. In my book I might have been a bit overly optimistic about the resistance of traditional higher ed, however.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities. This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Ask any teacher what his/her biggest “pain point” is related to teaching and the majority will report “the take home” or “the grading.” We approach feedback and assessment as a team. Teaching is an exhausting profession. Our workload both in and out of the classroom is overwhelming.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. The teenager would write down the wrong number when solving a math problem, even knowing the right answer, or read the same page of a book several times to pick up basic details. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. The districts say they’re limited in what they can do.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2016

For example, book reports were typed on the computer instead of handwritten, or math facts were practiced with a math game instead of flash cards. The online research becomes collaborative note-taking as a student group researches a topic and takes notes using a shared document. But that quickly became cumbersome. Redefinition.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

That’s significant because under normal circumstances, the majority of students eligible for academic accommodations choose not to report a disability when they get to college, says Adam Lalor, who conducted the survey. They had no choice but to give open-book and take-home tests,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

More than a dozen studies have documented that students, on average, made sluggish progress in reading during the pandemic. Six newsrooms joined together to report on the problem and find solutions for America’s reading problem. A student reading a book in a first grade classroom. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Not only was I not in classrooms enough, but also the level of feedback provided through the lens of a narrative report did very little to improve teaching and learning both in and out of the classroom. Consider less of a focus on lesson plans and more on assessment. Collect and review assessments two weeks into the future.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Ask any educator who teaches five classes of 30 students each per day; there’s a lot of homework to assess. Plagiarism-detection software can address the most pressing needs of classroom educators faced with assessing students’ written work. The Challenge: When identifying plagiarism, teachers need to be confident in their assessment.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

My district has taken on new initiatives the past few years (as all districts do) to solve the well-documented, disconnected nature between high school graduates and workplace preparedness. The reconfiguring and implementation of these two areas—curriculum and assessment—undoubtedly costs money and time. In his book Why School?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 30, 2021

We document the signs of crisis. It’s one of my favorite books but teaching it this year felt risky. They were extremely interested in how family finances and debt affected Gregor’s story — and some students said the book led them to reevaluate their perspective on cockroaches, which I took as a sort of victory.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

With the internet, students can access primary source documents, research just about anything, and support their own understanding with explanations accompanied by video, animations, or other helpful visualizations. Increase Feedback and Assessment. Use Professional Tools. Extend the Learning Day.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 28, 2022

Rather than doing this process manually, you can simply enter the names of the ebooks/articles and the page numbers, and Kitaboo would automatically collate the information in a document ready for your use. Automated assessments: Assessments are integral to any teaching process.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

Christopher Pommering, founder of Learnlife , a global network dedicated to fostering lifelong learning practices, says many of the 1,000 school leaders across the 60 countries in its network report that both teachers and students are burning out from trying to conduct the traditional school day in an online environment. “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

Whether students read from a book or screen, we know this about how they read: It’s social. An over-reliance on technology assessing participation can make students feel like homework compliance is valued more highly than comprehension and the substance of their responses. It may reflect a lack of trust.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Reporting and documenting Staff service, safety, and security committees. In 2015, the ALA published his book, Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities. His new book, The Safe Library: Keeping Users, Staff, and Collections Secure , was just published by Rowman & Littlefield. in English, and a B.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2019

This resource has a curated list of Gsuite resources, books, and tips. However, an anchor links within the document. I do this an easy way in a long document by making headings. they are a big time saver for students and teaches on long documents, for example, if you’re writing a book.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Have documentation of your policy but also announce flexibility in your policy based on AI developments. Second, you can try to clean up on the assessment end if you’re still concerned that AI-generated content is in your students’ papers (which might be clear simply because of our usual teacher check-ins, drafting, etc.).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Assessing a patron's behavior and its impact on the library: Is it simply eccentric, irritating, or a true violation of our Code of Conduct? Documenting the Security Incident Report with specific behaviors, not labels. In 2015, the ALA published his book, Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As teachers we know how we have to juggle teaching, classroom activities, meet deadlines, plan and execute lesson plans and assessments. I document progress and formulate strategies for optimum student performance. With Chronicle Cloud Note Taking, I can record assessments, track performance, and share with linked contacts.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Also, there is an educational portal that allows teachers to track/monitor students, generate detailed reports, and assess student's learning to make it easy to differentiate instruction. Once a book/story is completed a trade paperback copy can be ordered turning students into published writers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Students are hitting the books again on college campuses this fall, with fresh possibilities ahead of them. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, called in 2006 for learning to be measured and reported publicly. Measuring learning in college, and reporting the results, is surprisingly hard to do.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

Undeterred, they documented their cause on social media and found solidarity with others fighting for the district to reinvest in its schools rather than divest them to private interests. We were lucky to have a full class set of books and were rationed two reams of copy paper per teacher for the entire semester.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 13, 2015

The Assessment Range: Using Data In The Classroom To Meaningfully Affect Learning. If you don’t already have a plan for the data before giving the assessment, you’re already behind. These are industrial documents. What Should Assessments “Do”? by Terry Heick.

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