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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Common Core Elementary Assessment Academic Standards 40

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. Let your students teach you about their interests—don’t make assumptions.

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Common Core Poll Everywhere Survey Facebook 53

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. 10 Tips for Testing Success.

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Edmentum Common Core Assessment Study 136

eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

Edtech is being used in classrooms more than ever before. Keep reading to discover the meaning of some of the most common trends in Edtech. Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom! MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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Trends MOOC Differentiated Instruction Gamification 52

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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Meeting Classroom Company Common Core 169

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

After a summer of relaxation and self-directed professional development (which is the most important type of PD ), I’m ready to return to my classroom to help students discover and refine new skills. My uneasiness is a culmination of years of reflection on my classroom mission.

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Assessment Classroom Common Core Data 60

Hapara

MAY 19, 2022

When learning objectives are clear, and students are allowed to engage in organized and meaningful activities to help them become proficient at a targeted skill, it will lead to a productive classroom where learners are focused on achieving academic goals. Design assessments to measure understanding .

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Hapara Examples Assessment Common Core 144

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 27, 2017

However, it can take so much time for teachers to find appropriate articles, reading levels, and content related to what is happening in the classroom. Inside Kids Discover Online, you can create a simple classroom (even without email) where students can be assigned reading, take quizzes, and more. Kids Discover is simple.

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Learning Assessment Elementary Company 239

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. Supplies and summaries of labs, including outcomes and assessment tips. Cost: FREE.

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STEM Common Core Analysis Chromebook 193

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Mathletics is a captivating online learning space that provides students with all the tools needed to be successful math learners both in the classroom and beyond. Students can track correct responses allowing it to be used as an assessment if desired. Interactivate. BarGraph Sorter. Caesar Cipher. The MathFacts.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Comparison Report 254

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 24, 2015

For the last two years, I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the traditional approach to assessing students and reporting grades. This year I decided to overhaul my gradebook and assess students based on their mastery of particular skills, also referred to as standards-based grading. Redesigning My Gradebook. 2 = basic.

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Assessment Common Core Analysis Examples 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

Well, at least in the classroom. A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Learning 152

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

Welcome to post number five in a series devoted to formative learning (assessment). In this post I showcase some websites that can assist in providing interactive tools and resources essential in the classroom focused on student centered formative learning. Interactive Tools for Formative Assessment. Formative Learning.

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Assessment Tools Learning STEM 60

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

The Mountain View-based nonprofit announced it will be partnering with five of the largest county offices of education in Southern California, plus one school district, to begin implementing its first tool that is fully directed at teachers and classrooms. Teachers will be able to use the Khan Academy classroom tool without Google, too.)

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Khan Academy Tools Common Core Exercises 156

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 26, 2017

Using the Internet in classrooms has morphed from optional to organic. Blended learning occurs when an education program combines Internet-based media with traditional classroom methods. Students start with an assessment to determine where they are in their math learning and move forward from there. But that has changed.

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Blended Learning Khan Academy Learning Blackboard 176

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2016

The Tech-infused Classroom. We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. The Differentiated Teacher.

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Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network Twitter Gamification 150

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Bank of rich and culturally relevant tasks: Any mathematics content management system should give teachers access to or allow them to create and import problems that represent the diverse needs of their classroom. Students should be able to clearly find and refer to rubrics as they review teacher feedback. series of books.

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Instructional Materials Professional Learning Pearson Common Core 76

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. What Should Assessments “Do”? In short (depending on the assessment form, purpose, context, type, etc.),

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Assessment Data Learning Common Core 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 18, 2017

First: Don’t roll out blogging in your classroom without educating students on digital citizenship — privacy, profiles, footprints, safety, fair use/copyrights. Another good resource is Common Sense Media. If you’re going to assess posts, consider these criteria: How responsive to the topic is it?

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Social Media Assessment 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2023

For students in school, ‘speed of thought’ refers to how fast they develop ideas that will be recorded. 6.6 ) By 3rd grade, Common Core discusses the use of keyboarding to produce work, i.e., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 Some schools require assessments of student learning in technology. 45 wpm is good.

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Common Core Classroom Digital Citizenship Examples 356

eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2016

Gale Interactive: Science makes it easy for instructors to integrate 3D, digital content into the classroom that’s contextualized and mapped to the national science curriculum. It can be used for test prep, research or homework assignments (with flipped classrooms), or for in-class demonstrations.

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Common Core Flipped Classroom Learning Future Ready 40

Graphite Blog

JANUARY 20, 2016

The second kind is normally assessed: formal (or formulaic) and undervalued by students as anything more than a grade. This type of assessment will give a more authentic picture of your students' mastery. The first kind happens when students are working through an issue. Reflecting on learning can only deepen it.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Comparison Classroom 40

Saving Socrates

APRIL 22, 2013

In his post on his blog [link] , Aaron Ross suggests that their are two polar opposite approaches to the neccessity of a common core, those who want to protect and perhaps even popularize it and those who want to totally abandon it. Is a common core necessary for elementary school? He knows it best. I adore E.D.

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Common Core Assessment Learning Guidelines 49

techlearning

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Educators can sign up for a free account starting today to collaborate on classroom projects with their students. The platform empowers teachers and students to easily map out and reference what they have been working on,” said Miriam Bogler, the founder and CEO of Project Pals. (CHATSWORTH, CA) February 28, 2018 — Project Pals, Inc.

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Common Core Learning Software Libraries 40

Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The post 35 Awesome Apps that Integrate with Google Classroom appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Google Classroom Apps! Did you know that Google Classroom plays well with others? Google is known for making their applications open to working with third-party applications, and Google Classroom is no exception.

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Google Classroom eBook Common Core 28

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 25, 2015

The school uses various assessment practices to analyze student performance, target instruction, and provide students with feedback in order to increase student achievement and academic progress over time.

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Common Core Survey Data Meeting 40

Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

For a quick reference -- and for those of you #NotAtISTE who want to share in the learning -- here's a quick summary of our lightning sessions with links to the tools and resources each session covered. ELA AND ELL A+ Tools for K-5 Common Core Reading Comprehension. MATH Awesome Digital Tools for K-8 Common Core Math.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Blendspace 40

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

A student''s smartphone or tablet does not have to just be used for a special occasion in the classroom. On paper, students would complete the chart and cite page numbers to reference statements. The final project can be completed on paper, using word processing skills and completed using a student''s BYOD device.

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BYOD Edmodo Common Core Digital Citizenship 97

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2014

CCSS Connection: Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the same whole, including cases of unlike denominators, e.g., by using visual fraction models or equations to represent the problem. Little Bird Tales is a Web-based program that includes classroom enrollment options.

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Android Common Core Video Tools 73

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

During their first few days in the classroom, they are bombarded with a variety of situations they had not anticipated, and are often caught off guard by the realities of teaching. When new teachers aren’t supported to rapidly develop skills and address the realities of the classroom, it’s their students who pay the price.

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Common Core Professional Learning Meeting Report 75

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

When I was adding books to my classroom library last year I thought it would be a great idea to include some of her books so my third graders could fall in love with her storytelling the way I did. Even better, assess students’ interest by giving them time to browse the stories. When I was a kid I loved Beverly Cleary’s books.

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Libraries Common Core Strategy Meeting 85

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. Sitting quietly at the back of the room is no longer an option in classrooms that prize student engagement. But the classroom visit persuaded Picard. Instead of just saying, ‘Mr.

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Common Core Advocacy System Personalized Learning 91

Philly Teacher

MARCH 17, 2014

As a frequent attendee of the annual ISTE conference, and a Technology teacher, I found the conference in Philadelphia lacking many sessions dedicated to technology in the classroom. Another bright spot was the increased number of sessions referring to project or problem-based learning. Student-Centered, Project Based Learning.

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Conference Edcamps Social Media Common Core 68

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The current arguments over the Common Core State Standards underscore our confusion. The impulse of the Common Core writers, surely shared by even those who disagree with specifics, is a noble one: To find an antidote to the narrow test-based accountability and laundry list of outcomes spawned by NCLB. Minimize Testing .

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Common Core Guidelines Handbook Outcomes 40

Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

There are many different types of portfolios, and many different ways to use this strategy in the K-12 classroom and beyond. I’ve using portfolios in the classroom for the last five years. The portfolio process in my classroom has evolved, and I’d like to share some of my process and student creations. by Mike Mohammed.

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ePortfolio Google How To Secondary 77

Philly Teacher

MARCH 17, 2014

As a frequent attendee of the annual ISTE conference, and a Technology teacher, I found the conference in Philadelphia lacking many sessions dedicated to technology in the classroom. Another bright spot was the increased number of sessions referring to project or problem-based learning. Student-Centered, Project Based Learning.

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Conference Social Media Common Core Edcamps 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

For this reason I will refer to it as finding the technology in the standard. Resources: “Finding the Nouns or Facts” How might your identification of the curriculum standard nouns along with OER fit into a classroom ? Content is mapped to a variety of levels and standards including common core.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112