EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Less attention has been given to the day-to-day experiences of educators who are working to strengthen students’ grit and incorporate grit into classroom curricula. Regardless of personal opinion, the implications these opinions have on the classroom, as well as standardized testing, should not be ignored. I believe in grit.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I polled my PLN to find specific tech areas students needed help with in preparing for the Assessments. Pay attention to these and your students will be much more prepared for this Spring’s Common Core assessments: Keyboarding. Students should understand how to maneuver through a website without distraction.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

They choose the deep concentration and trial-and-error of gameplay over many other activities because figuring out how to win is exciting. Surprisingly, all you need is one simple mindshift to do this: Create a classroom environment where thinking isn’t considered work. How to Critically Think. ” — Voltaire.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 10, 2015

An Every Classroom Matters Episode with Garnet Hillman. How do we know our students have really mastered the standards we are supposed to teach? Assessment coach Garnett Hillman helps us understand how our assessments need to change. (We We learn the tools and tips to help us with assessments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2018

Founded in 2002 by graduates of the Yale School of Management, Veritas Prep offers live classroom prep courses, interactive online courses, on-demand classes, and private SAT tutoring sessions. More on assessments: 12 Fresh Ways to Assess Student Learning. How NOT to Assess Student Writing.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 31, 2015

According to Education World , a Curriculum Map is… … a process for collecting and recording curriculum-related data that identifies core skills and content taught, processes employed, and assessments used for each subject area and grade level. – Education World: Virtual Workshop: Curriculum Mapping. assessments.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 3, 2012

The students should be stakeholders in their education and have accountability, responsibility, and be actively engaged in and out of the classroom. Despite criticism, a traditional well-written multiple choice assessment can be a valid assessment tool ( I''m bracing for rebuttals ). What is being assessed? see a pattern?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Kate showed James this otherworldly site, and James tested how the AI was answering questions with intriguing bias depending on the type of question (“What’s the best way to stop terrorists?” vs. “How to bring peace to the Middle East”). Instead, I hope that you will feel more prepared with how to address AI in your classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

They choose the deep concentration and trial-and-error of gameplay over many other activities because figuring out how to win is exciting. Surprisingly, all you need is one simple mindshift to do this: Create a classroom environment where thinking isn’t considered work. How to Critically Think. ” — Voltaire.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

In last year’s statewide Common Core-related PARCC test, just 24 percent of the students at Esteves’ school met grade-level expectations in reading and writing, a category called English language arts and literacy. In general, I think the common core approach is the right one,” wrote Shanahan in a blog.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2015

In the past few years, the Common Core has significantly altered the landscape in terms of mathematics education. The Common Core has also required more coherence in our curriculum. It also allows us to take a blended learning approach to our Common Core math instruction.

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 19, 2014

BoomWriter’s interactive collaborative writing platform lets teachers deliver a fun and engaging personalized learning experience, while elementary, middle, and high school age students work online to develop their reading, writing, and peer assessment skills. It is a valuable asset to my classroom.” I am delighted with BoomWriter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. But to expect that the Common Core – or any standards – alone will move the needle is overreaching, he said. April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. Reframing expectations.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While it traditionally is an assessment tool for college-bound seniors, more and more high schools are choosing it as an exit exam for graduating seniors (such as these changes in Ohio and the State of Washington ). This repetitive practice is best delivered in partnership with classroom teachers. Mindsnacks SAT Vocabulary.

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

There are many options, but what do your students really need to learn and how can you integrate it into your classroom? These lessons are free and show students how to build a circuit, then how the code for that circuit works. Then, they’re prompted with challenges like “how would you blink the light twice as fast?”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 29, 2022

Banzai is a personal finance curriculum that teaches high school and middle school students how to prioritize spending decisions through real-life scenarios and choose-your-own adventure (kind of) role playing. Students finish the program with an assessment of knowledge and certificates. Some are narrative; others games.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

The schools were recently in the news for their relatively strong performance on what’s known as the Nation’s Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Also, it’s not enough to just teach kids how to read in a skills-based way. military installations are adopting Common Core — but don’t call it that.

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Educator Innovator

AUGUST 26, 2014

This was originally posted at Common Sense Graphite. As the new school year begins, articles and resources dedicated to helping teachers develop curriculum and assessments aligned to the Common Core literacy standards are popping up everywhere. Make the standards work for you—don’t work for them.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

He feels like he’s given increasingly less leeway in how to implement the curricula he receives from his district, even when students are not fully understanding key concepts. and competing ideas about why so many kids struggle with this core subject. But that research may not be filtering into classrooms. isn’t working.

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Education with Technology

JUNE 25, 2014

In my ISTE Sunday 8-10 am poster session, I demonstrate many diverse mobile activities to help students achieve the English Language Arts Common Core Anchor Statements through mobile devices. The mobile activities focus on free common tool apps that are available on both the Android and the iPad.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Here are five tools you can start Day One and use throughout the year: 25 Digital Tools in the Classroom. The 56-page 25 Digital Tools in the Classroom is a thorough discussion on which are the most useful tools in any K-8 classroom, classified by appropriate grade level. 65 Posters for Your Classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 16, 2018

These five tools (included) help you start Day One and can be used throughout the year: 25 Digital Tools in the Classroom. The 56-page 25 Digital Tools in the Classroom is a thorough discussion on which are the most useful tools in any K-8 classroom, classified by appropriate grade level. 65 Posters for Your Classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2022

Discuss not just your years of experience, but the student groups you’ve taught, the philosophies you’ve followed (such as IB or Common Core), parent needs met, pedagogy you’ve rolled out, teacher groups you’ve led, and more. How to contact you. When that’s done, honestly assess your resume.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Standing at the front of the classroom stopped working so I researched (and tried in some cases) Whole Brain Teaching (WBT), Socratic Method , Understanding by Design , Mindfulness , and a lot more options that colleagues mentioned as helpful with their differentiated student groups. Assessment is about my impact. I am a change agent.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The results from those new Common Core tests – designed explicitly to look for the skills kids need in college, namely critical thinking, problem solving and analytical writing skills – have been held up as proof of the persistence of deep-seated disparities in the education provided to poor students and children of color.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Felicia Durden shares methods behind having a powerful morning meeting in special education classrooms. From routine to celebrations, we talk about how to start the day well in special education classrooms. 5 Ways to Add Morning Meetings to Special Ed Classrooms. Enhanced Transcript. Friday, October 13, 2017. Felicia: Hi!

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Saving Socrates

AUGUST 28, 2013

What Parents Need to Know About the Common Core and How They Can Help Their Children The Common Core is an attempt to nationalize the curriculum creating common core standards in grades K-12. Explain how history is recorded and how people view the same experiences differently.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

But measuring how well schools are reaching English-learners is not easy, at least not from looking at the state’s accountability data. Strong language skills are key as part of the state’s Common Core standards. For one, the way English learners are tracked creates somewhat of a Catch-22 situation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Flip the classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2016

Rubrics are a well-accepted, even transformative tool for assessing student knowledge over a breadth of criteria. The pre-online versions weren’t dynamic or flexible, couldn’t be re-used, and few teachers had the time or energy to build these summative, purpose-built assessments. Common Core Rubric Creator.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Assessment For Learning. We walk you through the process of distinguishing between various assessment types, building goals, identifying best practices around your assessments and analyzing your data to make lasting instructional decisions throughout the year. How Teachers Can Help Students Cope with Test Anxiety.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

But with so much happening in our individual classrooms, we teachers often don’t take our own good advice. Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. Although we’d love to have one huge classroom, we just don’t have the space.

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MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

For states adopting Common Core, the standards apply to kindergarten, laying out what students should be able to do by the end of the grade.* There are many experiences in the classroom that are beneficial for building the foundation for learning to read that will come later.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

Each learning module is designed to connect classrooms to real-world science and engineering. After testing it, I found this middle school science unit to be full of interactive video, online experiences, classroom activities, and challenges. How to Get Started With Fire Forensics. This Guide includes: Rubrics. Cost: FREE.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Teacher-prep programs, she added, bear a large part of the responsibility here: Many teachers-in-training receive just one course in how to teach reading — a teaching task which experts agree is extremely complex — before heading into the classroom. Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill.

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We had a great discussion on how today literacy is more than just reading, that it’s this complex set of skills that all of us need to find the best information, decode it, determine its validity and usefulness along with understanding where that information comes from and how to apply that information to a new task or skill.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

I could Marie Kondo my classroom until it looked like something that Instagrammers would call “GOALS!” And I could finally gain control of workflow in the classroom. But giving feedback is only half of what our learners need to know how to do. weigh it against the standards they’re using to assess it. or “INSPO!”

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