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20 Ways to Assess Prior Knowledge

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In this post, we delve into various strategies educators can use to assess students’ prior knowledge. From interactive classroom activities like quizzes and mind maps to reflective practices like learning logs and self-assessments, these methods offer a diverse range of ways to gauge what students know and how they think.

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Unleashing Metacognition: The Power of See, Think, Wonder

Catlin Tucker

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. Media and Current Events: Use this with news articles or multimedia sources.

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Who wants to join me for a course on leadership during a crisis or leadership for social justice?

Dangerously Irrelevant

We will do a pre-assessment at the beginning of the course to see what you already know and what you’d like to learn! The bulk of our class meeting times each week will be spent addressing real-world, equity-focused school leadership case studies and scenarios. Class Meetings. Every Tuesday, June 9 through July 28, 2020.

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New Webinar: "Keeping Our Schools Safe: Reporting, Assessing, and Managing Threats"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Keeping Our Schools Safe: Reporting, Assessing, and Managing Threats A Library 2.0 + LearningRevolution.com Webinar with Dr. Steve Albrecht Please consider forwarding this material to colleagues or associates in school settings. LEARNING AGENDA: Best practices and lessons learned from past and recent national school violence cases.

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Looking to Excite Teachers with Coaching? Make It Voluntary

Digital Promise

Moreover, our Year 2 DLP research findings show a strong positive correlation between teacher perception of coaching as voluntary and teacher improvement in areas like content-based instructional strategies, assessment, differentiation, and classroom management. Takeaways for coaches and administrators.

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Teaching Computational Thinking: In practice

Neo LMS

In this instance students were asked to mine data they cared about, yielding a number of interesting projects such as the number of female vs. male spectators at female sports events, an argument for gender neutral bathrooms and the size of the eagle population in Alaska, to name a few.

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S'Cool Tools, Teacher Voice Edition: FANGeopolitics, School 4 One, Lexia Reading Core5

Edsurge

If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. Written by Doug , a high school social studies teacher from Illinois. Doug : My students were disengaged during our current events unit. Also, standards-based assessments. FANGeopolitics .

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