The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Teacher Mike Roberts give five strategies that can help us with formative assessment AND classroom management. 5 Formative Assessment Strategies to Help with Classroom Management. Now, Mike, you have five ideas for us today, to do formative assessments. What’s the first example? Mike: First example. And its free!

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Before you know it, parent-teacher conferences are right around the corner. It’s easy to let the conference season catch us by surprise, but did you know that parent-teacher conferences are one of the best ways to boost parent engagement? Encouraging Parental Involvement Before Conference Season.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Even during the pandemic’s early days, some professors decided to toss out their grade books , figuring that high-stress assessments weren’t appropriate given the uncertain circumstances, which saw students sent away from campuses, sometimes without tech tools or internet access. That's a kind of assessment. What do they want to do?

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EdTechTeacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

While next-generation assessments and instructional data can help educators gain a deeper understanding of students, the sheer amount of information available can prove challenging. As I discussed in a prior post , educational technologies can amplify the impact of proven formative assessment strategies.

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Neo LMS

JULY 30, 2020

A comprehensive teaching model helps educators identify strategies that motivate learners to discover new things, to explore a new field of knowledge (or continue exploring previous ones, but with more effective approaches), and at the same time, it provides a useful assessment system. Read more: Teacher tricks: Grading & assessment.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2020

When teachers are working with students online, their role as facilitator encompasses their interactions with students in conferences, the feedback they give students on their work, and their ability to assist students in making meaning in online discussions, both synchronous and asynchronous. Learning online is new for many students.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 9, 2018

” She was referring to our screener results, the computerized assessments we have our students take in fall, winter, and spring. Unfortunately, educators too often end up in service to the assessment. When we limit ourselves to only one way of assessing student learning, we become dependent on the tools we use.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So, how do teachers create the time and space to connect and conference with individual students? For example, an elementary teacher may want to focus on a specific season or weather pattern while a secondary teacher might focus on cell division or energy sustainability. Choose Your Own Adventure Choice Board.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 3, 2023

Our second Library 2.023 mini-conference: " Banned Books and Censorship: Current Intellectual Freedom Issues in the Library ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, June 8th, 2023, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Time. She has presented her research at numerous academic and professional conferences and published widely.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 15, 2019

For many teachers, edtech conferences are a major highlight of the school year and a great opportunity to connect with fellow educators. From lesson creation to assessment and gamification, there is something for K-12 schools, universities, vocational schools, and so on depending on the purpose of the conference.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

From empowering educators with well-being skills to fostering safe and positive learning environments, enhancing positive relationships, providing direct instruction on well-being competencies, and implementing assessment for continuous improvement, Dr. Smith's formula is both comprehensive and compelling. Your example really tees it up.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2019

Proper technology evaluation is a crucial element to digital innovation , said Baule, speaking at Consortium for School Networking’s 2019 annual conference. Assessments can be used to make programs more cost-effective, improve implementation, enable replication elsewhere in the district and justify more funding to administrators. .

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2024

The fervor around AI was on full display at the SXSW EDU conference held in Austin, Texas, during the first week of March. At least 20 sessions had the term “AI” in their title. This, she noted, is important in early learning because many educators serve families that speak multiple languages.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 22, 2023

Our second Library 2.023 mini-conference: " Banned Books and Censorship: Current Intellectual Freedom Issues in the Library ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, June 8th, 2023, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Time. She has presented her research at numerous academic and professional conferences and published widely.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

I get frustrated when I see conference presentations about 50 educational technologies in 50 minutes. It can help you learn by giving you examples and thoughts. Humans tend to write with greater burstiness, for example, with some longer or complex sentences alongside shorter ones. Wikipedia is one of those examples.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2023

The group plans to produce reports and guidelines for using AI in education; make policy recommendations for incorporating AI in school curriculum standards, courses, tools, assessments, and professional learning; and establish a global framework for computer-science curriculum that includes AI. That’s a tall order.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

They’re abbreviations for major conferences for companies in the education industry. What sets them apart from purely teacher-focused conferences is that industry players aren’t viewed mainly as vendors who pony up for a sponsorship or exhibit booth. Instead, in nearly every case, they’re primary conference attendees.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Like all districts in Texas, we live and die through accountability ratings based on how our students perform on the state’s STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) tests. To this end, we began using Renaissance Star Assessments districtwide in the 2015–2016 school year. Where did the kids go right?

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The Electric Educator

MARCH 16, 2018

Here are 25 different ways you can use Google Forms in your Classroom - with an example for each! This example is based on Fahrenheit 451 in a high school English classroom and is configured to release the quiz score immediately after submitting the quiz. The FormMule add-on automatically sends an email with conference information.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

Teaching Writing in Small Groups A Teacher's Guide to Reading Conferences. 2023), TEACHING WRITING IN SMALL GROUPS (March 2021), A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO READING CONFERENCES (2019), and UNDERSTANDING TEXTS AND READERS (2018). So the lesson examples throughout the book. Her newest books are THE READING STRATEGIES BOOK 2.0

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Neo LMS

MARCH 9, 2021

Sometimes, this trial and error approach takes a lot of time, and assessing its effectiveness takes even longer. For example, students don’t learn better when they’re stressed , as stress “may hamper the updating of memories in the light of new information.” That’s why educators can find valuable lessons from research.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Consider less of a focus on lesson plans and more on assessment. Collect and review assessments two weeks into the future. Suggestions for improvement should always contain clear, practical examples and strategies that a teacher can begin to implement immediately. This is leading by example at it’s best.

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Hapara

JULY 3, 2023

Examples of online behavior expectations include: We will use school-issued devices for classwork rather than personal entertainment. For example, when sharing your screen with the class and navigating websites, you can talk through how to make appropriate decisions online. Examples might include: This website is trustworthy because.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As we learned at the American Evaluation Association ‘s 2019 conference, these partnerships often lead to unearthing innovative data collection strategies, stronger, co-designed research questions, and more meaningful evaluation outputs. Three approaches to engage in equitable evaluation.

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Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2021

With the basics covered, assessing your technology readiness and soliciting feedback on your students’ experiences can be an informative next step: How did you select the technologies and digital learning resources? How did you use technology to support curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment?

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

It wasn’t until a presentation at a major conference where I got the kick in the butt that I desperately needed but wasn’t aware of until then. For example, I really appreciate Michael Ford pushing me in this direction when he asked me to create a choice board as part of a professional learning date with his staff.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2018

Teachers see my examples which show four separate groups and assume that all station rotations must have four groups. For example, I worked with a school in Southern California that dedicated Mondays to whole group instruction then Tuesday through Friday were rotations. That is not the case. The Station Rotation Model is flexible.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2021

This time allows me to provide one-on-one instruction and support, conference with learners about their progress, provide feedback on their work, or conduct side-by-side assessments. Example questions: –What does “alike” mean? Here is an example of what this mini-unit may look like in an LMS.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Many hybrid learning models have either an entire day (typically Wednesday or Friday) for teachers to plan, grade, provide interventions, and conference with students. For a learner, it might be giving him or her multiple chances on an assessment or to complete a project. Some set aside a half-day.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

My online learning activities typically involve the use of short videos, online discussions, student research, podcasts, and various formative assessments. I get to breakdown complicated processes, facilitate discussions, conduct student conferences, or meet with individual students who need additional support.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Model a process, provide real-time feedback, conference with students, lead a small group discussion, and create time for Q & A sessions related to your work. For example, my “Next Steps” list always reminds them to return to any work at a previous station that they did not get a chance to complete. 10) Mix it up!

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

Go to conferences. Attending conferences, while expensive, can help you stay on the cutting edge of edtech. The International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE), for example, has a fantastic conference every summer that highlights the newest edtech products from around the globe.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For example, there is a much larger global conversation going on about recycling and reducing our use of certain materials. Discussions can be synchronous (via video conference) or asynchronous (via an online forum). Teachers have to assess the resources and capacities of both schools before starting a project.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

They aren’t waiting for a conference or for instructions from their state or nation’s leaders. They’ve strengthened their resolve as leaders and set the example for other decision-makers in their communities. In parallel fashion we should begin by self-assessing the environments and communities in which we work.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2021

All in all, these are all great examples of progress in difficult times. Embrace a learning management system (LMS), settle on a video conference solution that has breakout rooms and integrate one digital tool that aligns with effective instructional strategies.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Karen was the 2015 Tennessee State Teacher of the Year and I interviewed her at the NNSTOY Conference in DC this summer. And I’m at the in NNSTOY Conference , that’s N-N-S-T-O-Y.org. 01:01 Vicki : So give me an example of how it’s used in your classroom. So for example, one of the types of thinking is perspective taking.

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SpeechTechie

JUNE 26, 2014

This past weekend, I was thrilled to be part of the Social Thinking® Providers'' Conference in San Francisco, CA. Similar example, if a friend gets a good grade on a test an expected response can be: "You suck!" Nancy Clements) Finally, I was very happy to be presenting at this conference myself. Denial of Feelings) • “Mrs.

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