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3 Reasons Teachers Should Use the Playlist Model

Catlin Tucker

I’ve trained many teachers who use choice boards and ask, “What’s the difference between a choice board and a playlist?” Research Projects: When students engage in research projects, they need time to gather information, synthesize their findings, and put together presentations or reports to share their findings.

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Using Data-Driven Instruction and SEL to Make the Most of Assessments

EdNews Daily

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.

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Evidence-Based Phonemic Awareness Program for Young Learners Unveiled by 95 Percent Group

eSchool News

Aligned with the latest research on phonemic awareness and part of the One95 Literacy Ecosystem , the new suite includes core and intervention lessons, intervention tools, assessments and teacher professional learning. Digital assessments are delivered over the new One95 Literacy Platform.

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How More Teachers are Being Trained in the Science of Reading

MindShift

Hughes, a first-year teacher, said she learned how to teach this important decoding skill to help struggling readers in her pre-service training. And a new report suggests that her students’ future reading success might rely, in part, to that training. . Training teachers before they head into classrooms.

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Student teachers fail test about how kids learn, nonprofit finds

The Hechinger Report

However, experts say schools of education — the institutions that train teachers — often don’t do that. Leave this field empty if you're human: The results were “sobering,” according to a March 2020 report, “ Learning by Scientific Design; Early insights from a network informing teacher preparation.”

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Increasing Student Participation During Zoom Synchronous Teaching Meetings

User Generated Education

teacher education Zoom meetings although they can be adapted for any age group and age level (3rd grade and up), and in training professionals. In this case, I inform the Breakout Groups to decide on a spokesperson or two to report to the whole group. Below are some the activities I have used during my. Breakout Groups.

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How Remote PD is Helping This District Get Back to School

Edsurge

We had to balance providing teachers time to prepare for 100 percent online instruction with the need to provide PD pertaining to specific areas like SEL, differentiated instruction and technology integration. Moore is the Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment for the East Pennsboro Area School District.