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Why experts say now is the time to assess your district’s edtech use

eSchool News

We’re doing a lot of work around helping teachers to understand the different processes and what they need to do if they want to bring something into their classroom. Core curriculum products can be quantitatively assessed by looking at whether they are helping meet district goals around student learning.

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Personalizing history for more impactful student learning

eSchool News

The culture and climate of the social studies classroom has changed, and the way teachers teach social studies has to change with it. The modern social studies classroom should now be a classroom full of student inquiry and choice. Changing the classroom to support these personalized pathways takes some new teaching strategies.

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What is classroom culture? How do I create classroom culture?

The CoolCatTeacher

Classroom culture defines your classroom. You can feel a classroom culture, but what is a classroom culture? How do you build a positive classroom culture? In this show, Andrew Sharos, author of Finding Lifelifes: A Practical Tale about Teacher and Mentors , shares how to create a thriving classroom culture.

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Panel Presentations: Connect Students with a Real Audience

Catlin Tucker

In addition to connecting students to an online audience, I also invite community members, parents, and other students into our classroom regularly. I find it interesting that most teachers at the secondary level do not ask parents to come into the classroom to help out. I also ask about their availability.

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Smartphones in the classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

Luckily, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Andrew Carroll, former High School teacher, has a great analysis of the problem and discussion of solutions below: How to control smartphone usage in classroom? In a classroom, on average, children check on their phones 11 times a day. Shoulders slouched and eyes down—you guessed it right!

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Rethinking Grading and Assessment Practices – Part 1 – Why Change?

The Principal of Change

There has been a multitude of conversations regarding assessment and grading practices, focusing on shifting practice that makes more sense not only for the current time we live in but also moving forward. She had said, “How we assess drives our teaching, not the other way around.” ” I would agree.

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Education Transformation: Assessing the Downfalls and Crafting Solutions for US Education

Evelyn Learning

ASSESSING THE DOWNFALLS Declining Academic Performance: While the U.S. Factors such as low salaries, insufficient professional development opportunities, and ballooning classroom sizes contribute to declining job satisfaction and high turnover rates among teachers. education system. NOTE: Interpret data on city teachers with caution.