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7 Ideas for Student Genius Hour and Passion Projects

The CoolCatTeacher

However, if you look at the definition of the word, you’ll find: 1. She’s helped the students find books in the library, and she has also helped them learn some ways to navigate ways to share their knowledge through Google Slides or Wixie. Now, some people think that to say every child is a “genius” is a stretch.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. But culture is an elusive concept and mandates a definition here. Adaptive teaching in literacy instruction: Case studies of two teachers. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Parsons, S.

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S’Cool Tools, Teacher Voice Edition: FreshGrade, ScreenCastify, Quizlet Live

Edsurge

If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. I've exclusively used the mastery scale for student work and assess with language like fully meeting, exceeding and meeting expectations. I used Quizlet Live as a game-like, group formative assessment.

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Facing an existential crisis, some colleges do something rare for them — adapt

The Hechinger Report

Another small school, private Hartwick College in New York, provides a similar case study. Related: From Google ads to NFL sponsorships: Colleges throw billions at marketing themselves to attract students. It’s definitely an area we want to capitalize on.”. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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Building a specifications grading course, part 2

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Assessments and marks What will students do in the class, to demonstrate their progress toward the learning objectives I listed last time? These kinds of skills are in the middle and upper thirds of Bloom's Taxonomy, and we have two kinds of assessments for these as well. Today, we get into the weeds.

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How SBG Led Us to Empower: The Tyranny of 82% (Part 1 of 2)

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

He got a 20 out of 100 points on the first big assessment. At the end of the unit, he aced a final assessment with 100 out of 100 points. All that effort at the end and he only got an average of 60 percent in summative assessments. But it was too little too late. Our current Shelby Strategic Leadership Plan 2.0

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Bring back joy by teaching outdoors: A how-to guide

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Case Study #1: Jain, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas. I think students sometimes use going to the bathroom as just needing a mental break, but definitely the students who were testing outside got the mental break they needed by just looking up hearing the birds around them. Subscribe to the podcast in Google Play.

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