Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This is the second part of a two-parter where I am going into detail about how the grading system in my current course, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, is set up. The first part, where I described the big picture of the course, its learning objectives, and what a "C" and "A" semester grade should mean, is here.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2024

Benefits of digital tools in social studies education Enhanced Accessibility : One of the primary advantages of digital tools is their ability to provide students with access to a vast array of historical documents, primary sources, and multimedia resources.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

That doesn’t happen in online courses. State requirements are starting to address this by requiring online virtual meetings between teacher and student. That approach, of course, sapped the advantages of being online. ” Ignore Innocent Mistakes. Pay Attention to Human Contact. Think about it: Why does it matter?

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Neo LMS

JUNE 7, 2022

Quizzes are the quickest way to assess student knowledge. Of course, you can also add freeform questions where students need to provide more input and you have to check each answer individually. . Moreover, students can also add attachments to essay assignments such as PowerPoint presentations or Word documents.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter My students are writing a collaborative writing document following the principles I share in my book Reinventing Writing. To document my own thinking process as I evaluate this. So, I decided to test it on my demo text from the document.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 21, 2019

What if such a machine would assess the learning progress of students and then be able to decide what one student or another should learn next? I’m talking, of course, about how natural an action is for us to use an ATM to get our money nowadays. did that with 97% accuracy, becoming the most efficient TA for that course.

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Hapara

JUNE 24, 2022

Educators assess and report on outcomes. It is what must be taught, assessed and reported on. Read more about concepts as part of this free, asynchronous course on conceptual understanding. . This aspect of the craft includes planning, instruction and assessment. Educators find joy and satisfaction in their craft.

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Lightspeed Systems

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

And, of course, some students struggle with a multitude of factors. The Foundational Components of MTSS MTSS takes a proactive approach to identify struggling students in need, striving for an early assessment and subsequent intervention that will enable struggling students to “catch up” with their peer group.

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My Island View

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Over the many years that #Edchat has been engaging educators, one topic that always generates a huge amount of interest, based on comments, is the faculty meeting. Teachers are required to attend the faculty meetings that administrators are required to hold and very few are happy with the results.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MAY 16, 2024

This compact and elegant portable gadget possesses the ability to house an extensive collection of books, magazines, newspapers, and documents despite its lightweight design. Support your Learning Goals eReaders offers a range of educational content, such as online courses, podcasts, blogs, forums, and other resources.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 27, 2022

One of the best ways to build daytime workshop sessions with the understanding that the sessions will help administrators meet their yearly goals. Some of the best ways of knowing what sessions to offer are by creating self-assessments and by simply sending staff members short-form interest surveys.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 27, 2022

One of the best ways to build daytime workshop sessions with the understanding that the sessions will help administrators meet their yearly goals. Some of the best ways of knowing what sessions to offer are by creating self-assessments and by simply sending staff members short-form interest surveys. Pre-Workshop Documents and Surveys.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 4, 2018

Just like with teaching, integration specialists need to differentiate instruction and support to meet the needs of the teachers. Additionally, visiting a classroom just to watch a teacher interact with students before the first meeting will show you value him or her. Have a Planning Meeting to Discuss IT Integration.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2020

For over a decade, teachers have considered it “good enough” to meet those first levels — like rote drills to replace worksheets. Students can quickly access classmate thinking on a subject and teachers can add comments and/or assess understanding. Virtual meeting app. Not anymore. Hard to believe this works?

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Start today by signing up for alerts , safe-guarding important documents, and taking other low cost and no cost preparedness actions to lessen the impact of disasters and emergencies for you and your family. FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) Emergency Management Insitute The FEMA EMI offers free, online courses for anyone to take.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 24, 2022

I’ve seen teams that seem to multiply the members’ time by sharing the work, and teams that suck up the members’ time with never-ending meetings. Our meetings were often debates about the value of assessing students on different examples of imperialism or Cold War policies. What is going well and what are the team’s successes?

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2013

Of course not, but the change that was initiated is much more aligned with the learning needs of our students. Multiple forms of formal assessment : Marking period grades have to be comprised of multiple forms of assessment. Evidence of a face-to-face meeting with the parents/guardians and guidance counselor.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Yet the change isn’t happening fast enough for many parents and researchers who say the tests remain deeply ingrained in the work of school psychologists, in particular, and that they are still regularly misused to gauge young children’s potential and assess whether they are “worthy” of extra help or investment.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

So, as schools around the country are increasingly inclined to do amid heightened concern over school violence and threats, administrators sent the child to meet with a psychiatrist. When assessments are deployed well, she explained, they can be essential to preventing violence in schools and mobilizing resources for a struggling student.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 20, 2017

According to Tomlinson and McTighe , standards-based grading (SBG) “measures student proficiency on well-defined course objectives.” Here are details you’ll like: All relevant teacher information is included on the teacher dashboard with links to dig deeper into standards, students, assessments, assignments, and more.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

With the internet, students can access primary source documents, research just about anything, and support their own understanding with explanations accompanied by video, animations, or other helpful visualizations. Increase Feedback and Assessment. Access Resources. Use Professional Tools. Extend the Learning Day.

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Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

Formative assessments like this NGSS-aligned weather formative assessment. Pre-assessments like this clouds pre-assessment. You know your learners best, and adopted curriculum and textbooks may not meet every student’s needs. Here are some tools you can find online to create documents, multimedia and more.

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Doug Levin

OCTOBER 21, 2016

State departments of education lawyers and staff (and savvy school district leaders) will use this guidance to move forward with their plans for implementing the SSAEG program to meet state and local needs in concert with other education policy priorities and funding plans. And, I’ve commented on a proposal by the U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Instructional leadership was a routine part of the job along with the budget, master schedule, curriculum development, meetings, email, phone calls, and many other duties. Consider less of a focus on lesson plans and more on assessment. Collect and review assessments two weeks into the future. There is no perfect lesson.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

My district has taken on new initiatives the past few years (as all districts do) to solve the well-documented, disconnected nature between high school graduates and workplace preparedness. The reconfiguring and implementation of these two areas—curriculum and assessment—undoubtedly costs money and time.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

And he teaches those courses online and asynchronously, meaning students go through the material at their own pace rather than ever meet at the same time and place. Getting students to write something has always been such a solid form of assessment — probably one of the bigger tools we have in our toolkit,” he says. “We

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

Digital leadership focuses on transforming learning environments through online course offerings (synchronous and asynchronous), independent studies, and use of OpenCourseWare to provide students with continuous options to learn anytime, anywhere, and about anything. OCW courses are available under open licenses, such as Creative Commons.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

College students with learning disabilities experienced a sudden rupture of the status quo this spring when most of their courses moved online. But in other instances, institutions seized the unusual opportunity to encourage professors to redesign courses to be more accessible to people with varied needs.

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More Verbs

MARCH 1, 2016

Our destination should be more than just the work we do: taking attendance, direct instruction, providing practice, reviewing and assessing work, providing feedback, etc. I like it because it is quick and dirty: it can be accomplished in one or two afternoon or evening meetings (within 3 hours total). Destination Matters.

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N2Y

MARCH 6, 2020

Developed to help teachers provide unique learners with meaningful access to their state’s academic content standards, extended standards are adapted with reduced levels of complexity to ensure students receive multiple opportunities to learn and demonstrate knowledge while meeting the expectations of the general education standards.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

All you need is a device and software, like Google Hangouts Meet, Zoom, Join.me, GoToMeeting, or other tools that facilitate studying. Learning Solutions Magazine Of course, specialized online periodicals had to land on the list. Technology allows you to teach and learn from any part of the world with Internet access and electricity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Each concluded that students who learned science and social studies through a detailed project-based curriculum over the course of a year posted higher achievement scores than those who learned those subjects the way teachers in their schools usually taught them. The positive spillover effects for other subjects are noteworthy.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

And, of course, as digital tools have become essential for teaching and learning, teachers everywhere have discovered new tools they hadn't used before the shift to remote learning. Using shared documents during live practice or instruction is a strategy I've also used as an English teacher. featured_content_1%%.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2022

I took Calculus I, II, and III in high school at the local college, and when I enrolled at the University of Virginia, my courses included honors chemistry and physics for physics majors—although I did not major in physics. Busyness, meetings, and relationships alone are not going to be the best determinants in supporting students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

Yet inflexibility is a hallmark of our current education system, apparent in our failure to meet the diverse learning needs of all our children. For example, we introduced nonverbal cognitive assessments to measure intellectual aptitude among all second graders.

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Kathy Schrock

JUNE 13, 2022

I just spent the day exploring Lucidspark , a collaborative whiteboard educators and students can use for many educational activities and assessments! And, of course, you can edit the templates and start from scratch if you want! You can see from the video below there are a ton!

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Student engagement in answering questions or testing their knowledge with challenges helps teachers assess the student’s student progress. The Math Get-Ready Courses introduce students to third to eighth grades algebra, geometry, and pre-calculus. Lessons also help prepare students for SAT, LSAT, and Praxis Core.

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