Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2021

He arrived early to a meeting to discover a senior faculty member lying in ambush, armed with a crude joke and disparaging words for a researcher—a woman—who’d applied for a job in their department. Universities striving for greater equity may offer implicit bias tests, DEI seminars or curriculum reviews. Or, they might put on a play.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2019

CPD opportunities for teachers might include: : Workshops, seminars and conferences. To maintain this balance, there are some tips you can employ to ensure both your classroom work and study to thrive. These can give you the ability to study outside of work hours and complete assessments in your own time. Online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

There are many ways to design a coaching program, but the general idea is that a veteran educator observes a teacher in the classroom and then gives constructive feedback on issues ranging from managing student misbehavior to framing open-ended questions that push students to think harder. A third problem is scheduling. What should be done?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I have a SMART Board in my classroom. Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No, it sure isn’t.”. We need assessments that can facilitate that growth. .

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Translate this thought into the classroom. The learning experience is not personalized and thus will not meet the needs of all students. Tier II support is the first layer of additional support when assessments indicate students need remediation of skills to become proficient, independent learners.) The problem? In the U.S.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I have a SMART Board in my classroom. Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No, it sure isn’t.”. We need assessments that can facilitate that growth. .

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2017

And so I think really often about one of my colleagues who I caught with just starting out and he was a history teacher exactly like I was and he was one of those history teaches who could absolutely us stand in front of the classroom, talk about history and make it come alive. He was incredible at direct instruction and at lecturing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

From then until the coronavirus hit, when she was a 16-year-old precalculus student, Hernandez shined in the classroom. The standards for online learning during her junior year weren’t just lower than they had been in the classroom, she said, “the standards weren’t even there at all.”. “It This story also appeared in USA Today.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Here are 8 ways you can stay ahead in lesson planning that still allow you to meet student needs every step of the way. It lowers anxiety for students because they know what’s typically happening and can adjust to the flow of your classroom. Assessments on Fridays: I used to do a quiz in math every other Friday.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Over the course of my last 4+ years focusing on redesigning professional development, I have worked to meet teachers where they are, while giving them the most up-to-date PD offerings that they can choose from an array of workshops, discussions, and more. Include quick assessments after any content knowledge. Think Shmoop ! .

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2019

Personalized—Because the courses focus on more specific skills than a long-term seminar, educators are able to choose courses that meet their precise needs. Finally, there are criteria for how the user can demonstrate mastery of the skill and how to submit the evidence, as well as a rubric for assessment. About the Presenter.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The First Year In the first year of our virtual co-planning, we first wrote common assessments, then later common lesson plans and projects, before beginning video conferences to reflect on and edit our work. Students in one classroom are paired with partner “e-pals” in another class to score and provide weekly reflection on others’ work.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2018

Rather, meet Ted Dintersmith, who has spent nearly 20 years as a partner at Charles River Ventures, an early-stage investment firm. These days, he’s no longer spending time in company boardrooms, but rather in schools and classrooms. We’re not talking about Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. Ted, sorry to break it to you.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I have a SMART Board in my classroom. Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No, it sure isn’t.”. We need assessments that can facilitate that growth.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Here are 8 ways you can stay ahead in lesson planning that still allow you to meet student needs every step of the way. It lowers anxiety for students because they know what’s typically happening and can adjust to the flow of your classroom. Assessments on Fridays: I used to do a quiz in math every other Friday.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Here are 8 ways you can stay ahead in lesson planning that still allow you to meet student needs every step of the way. It lowers anxiety for students because they know what’s typically happening and can adjust to the flow of your classroom. Assessments on Fridays: I used to do a quiz in math every other Friday.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 4, 2016

Edcamps are a great way for educators to meet with peers in their area and share great ideas. Everyone was grateful for a Squirrels lanyard with a 20% off coupon for Reflector 2, an app to project mobile devices to a classroom screen. Topics for the day included the following ( and then some ): Google Classroom. Makerspaces.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Title for Kaylsta: 3 assessment tools that support student individuality and assets (not deficits). Original title: assessment-tools-that-support-student-individuality. There is another approach to assessment that supports students’ individuality and provides teachers with effective information about their learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. Such coordination facilitates support classes that meet every other day during the school day, with one teacher for every six or seven students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. Simmons: Part of my school’s curriculum is a required first year seminar to make sure you're not just drowning in 400-person lectures.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Waters agrees, saying that most schools don’t really move past the assessment. There, Meghan McFadyen asks kids in her mixed fourth- and fifth-grade classroom who have “Presence” among their top strengths to help peers, because in theory no performance anxiety will block them from taking leadership positions. Weekly Update.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. 5 Reasons to Try a Whole Novel Approach in Your Classroom. Enhanced Transcript. We go back into the text.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

It has become increasingly possible to personalize learning–adapt resources and assessments to student skills and needs and differentiate lessons that are pushed out to individual students or small groups ( read: Shifting my Teacher Mindset with Micro-credentials ). Constructive Conversations – Assessing Student Conversations.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 4, 2018

They have done a tremendous amount of work in experimenting with various productivity strategies in their classrooms and creating systems and routines that work well for them and their students. The topic for our first productivity roundtable is streamlining the grading and assessment process.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. Remember the days of longing for the hands on the classroom clock to move faster? Mindsets in the Classroom: Building a Culture of Success and Student Achievement in Schools – Mary Cay Ricci. Why is that? Willingham.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 4, 2023

Students get more practice, and the unit assessment ends up being a day later than it would have been — not a big problem. If I realize my students need more time on this concept, I can look at the big picture and make choices to meet this need without throwing off the rest of the year. But what if I take a similar approach often?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2011

The ASSISTments Platform ASSISTS students in learning while it gives teachers assessMENT of their students'' progress. Science and literacy instruction in the elementary grades is the focus of a new series of web seminars for the 2010-2011 school year. link] MISSION US ( Classroom 2.0 [link] ASSISTMENTS ( Math 2.0

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

Verso is a platform for virtually managing discourse in your classroom. Once student responses come in from a Check-In, it's easy to see what category the students have self-assessed themselves so you can plan your next lesson accordingly. I quickly jumped on board and used it to set up a Socratic Seminar with my English II course.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In math teacher Danielle Bosse’s classroom, three students take assessments (foreground) while their classmates learn and practice different math skills. These students, and a couple dozen others circulating through the classroom for three periods each day, make up Jaguar Academy (named for the district’s feline mascot).

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

This differs from traditional classrooms where the pacing is driven by the teacher and a new lesson is taught whether or not the student truly grasped the concept. Scalzetti’s classroom is typical of what happens throughout the school. Students take an entrance assessment and grade it together as a class. social justice.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

An idea floated about using social media as part of a classroom activity. By the lunch break, a seminar-style discussion about SDG 6 — clean water and sanitation — was well underway. Creating Accountability Will creativity in the classroom and flexibility in how students demonstrate their learning be enough to transform Coolidge?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

adding subscriptions , Sinha says, the number of users completing specializations has doubled—as learners rush to finish courses to save money, they also appear to meet their goals more often. (He led the effort to let users create multiple profiles on their Netflix accounts). I didn’t even know their names—though the TAs might have.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

He and his then-wife would meet on the subway platform to hand off their daughter as they both went to and from class. Jesus Benitez meets his son, Mason, after school at a pizzeria in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. Adrian Huerta, an assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California, has a similar assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

One student, 8-year-old Yarely, had trouble signing on to the remote classroom. The DOE also has offered professional development seminars for school staff on how to support students coping with grief and loss, a spokesperson said. Others had social workers but struggled to meet the needs of non-English speaking families.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

. — Using small yellow and orange squares of paper and lengths of yarn stretched between tables and chairs, sixth-grade math students made number lines — including everything from fractions to negative decimals — in a classroom at Walsh Middle School. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It sounds at first like an ambitious book club—except for the fact that many of these seminars are organized and led by college professors, some so eager to participate that they do it for free. Although some of their seminars are intended as what Hitz calls a “friendly supplement” to college curricula, others are more openly antagonistic.

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