Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In the last two blogs, I have focused on strategies teachers can use to 1) assess prior knowledge before a lesson and 2) check for understanding during a lesson. I’ve suggested that teachers build mechanisms into their lessons to collect formative assessment data. The third piece to this puzzle is a post-lesson reflection.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. At its core, the routine starts with the fundamental act of “seeing.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

The discussion was based on the research of primary and secondary documents and was quite creative. I assigned students to develop a running conversation between historical personalities such as Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton for a quick formative assessment for one lesson.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

This goes for secondary students too! If students are completing work online, I create a Google document with step-by-step directions, links, and screenshots to help them navigate that online work. If I grade something, it is an assessment. Click here for more on grouping strategies and organizing groups. 10) Mix it up!

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Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2019

The results of large-scale tests may be used by schools or policy-makers to make important decisions such as grouping students by ability or assessing how well schools are doing. Across Canada, researchers and educators have documented the need to transform how the provinces assess literacy and consider more innovative designs.

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Assessment Social Media Secondary Analysis 265

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Within six months of high school graduation, only 51 percent of the class of 2022 enrolled in post-secondary education, down from 56 percent from the class of 2019. Policy Center predicted that only eight students out of every 100 ninth graders in the district would earn a post-secondary credential within six years of high school graduation.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Secondary trends, found in only a few of the reviewed resources, included: blended learning, dashboards and learning analytics, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. But content is not top on your list.”

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Lightspeed Systems

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As primary and secondary schooling takes up a large portion of a child’s life, it’s at school where struggling children are frequently identified. The Three Tiers of Support in MTSS Based on student assessment data, MTSS uses three tiers of support to serve every student at their assessed level.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Download the Thank You Project – Word Document. She was nominated by a colleague for the Teachers that Rock – Class of 2018, and by her principal and supervisor for the 2017 New Jersey Exemplary Secondary Educator award. ” PowerSchool is my only recommended SIS and LMS. Download: The Thank You Project (Word File).

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2022

The benefits of esports are well documented. Thus far, conversations around esports have centered on collegiate and secondary levels, however, a recent change in the winds has shifted the conversation to elementary esports. I could design a camp without worrying about standards alignment, summative assessments, or grades.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

2020 and 2021 saw $190 billion in federal relief funds go to schools through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). Many districts still have not fully assessed where learning gaps exist and what students need to catch up academically, emotionally, and socially. States are slow to get the money to districts.

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Hapara

MAY 19, 2022

History class: By the end of class, students will be able to explain how technological advancements during WWI affected soldiers, as evidenced by creating a main claim and supporting that claim with primary and secondary source documents. Design assessments to measure understanding . para Dashboard.

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techieMusings

APRIL 27, 2021

This year has undoubtedly forced us to reexamine assignments and assessments, reimagine what collaboration and projects look like, and create new avenues for students to actively participate in all aspects of class, whether at home or in the classroom. STEP 1: RESEARCH USING SECONDARY AND PRIMARY SOURCES. STEP 2: WRITE A SCRIPT.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I hope you are enjoying this series on formative assessment, and I am sure you will find these tools most valuable. Part 4: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities. Back Channel for Formative Assessment. as you continue to amplify formative learning with digital technology. Collaboration.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

The Independent OpenCourseWare Study (IOCS) that I co-created with Julie Meehan when I was principal at New Milford High School represents an uncommon learning experience for secondary students that allows them to fully utilize OCW to pursue learning that focuses on their passions, interests, and career aspirations.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 13, 2019

Primary and secondary schools are swiftly responding to the evidence in support of active learning. ” Short written responses are a great way to review materials and assess student understanding. The benefits of active learning compared to traditional lectures are well documented. To date, more than 200 U.S. Peer review.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

I remember when I went one-to-one with devices in my secondary English classrooms. When iPads are added to the pedagogical equation, the recipe for curriculum, instruction, and assessment changes. Often times when schools go one-to-one with iPads, teachers continue to do what they’ve always done. Microsoft OneNote. Chatterpix.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Laurence’s College in Brisbane had just 50 minutes to write up a formative assessment on the representation of robots and artificial intelligence in the movies. Gunn estimates that by avoiding those hassles and little things like having to send emails of annotated documents, she saves 10 minutes out of every 50-minute lesson.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study.

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2016

Its roots can be traced back to the 1990s when Congress reauthorized Johnson’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The Improving America’s Schools Act (IASA) required the development or adoption of state assessments and tied them to Title I funds. Teachers intentionally and frequently use formative assessment.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

These standards have been traditionally published only as human-readable documents, such as PDFs, that can’t be used directly by education technology tools. In other words, statements within PDF documents cannot be reliably referenced in information systems and digital content. K-12 learners.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The benefits of esports are well documented. Thus far, conversations around esports have centered on collegiate and secondary levels, however, a recent change in the winds has shifted the conversation to elementary esports. I could design a camp without worrying about standards alignment, summative assessments, or grades.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

In this case, we might offer, “If we look at document C, this supports what _ is saying because…” or “I agree with ’s thinking about… because in Document B the author writes…” Following this framing, the discussion begins. To maximize participation and use of the strategy, we provide discussion stems for the habit.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

“In the new year, when we receive our mid-year i-Ready results, I want to celebrate our students’ growth, paying particular attention to those who were below grade level on their fall assessment and have worked hard to make meaningful progress since then.”. Scott Hayhurst, teacher, Okanagan Mission Secondary School, Canada. “I

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 12, 2021

The student data covered by FERPA includes any files, documents, or records in other formats that contain information directly related to a student. There is also likely to be an assessment system that includes tests, rubrics, and analytics.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What does assessment look like in 21st Century education? So a summative test like the PARCC is a good tool but not the only way that we should be assessing our students throughout the school year. Assessment should not only be summative but also formative, ongoing, and project-based. Image Credit: Kyle Pearce.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Higher education has found itself under increasing pressure to change that, just as has happened in elementary and secondary schools, where a battery of standardized tests constantly check in on what students know. The push is coming from policymakers and consumers who want to know the return on their investments in college.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

That's an interesting dynamic where so much of this is at this intersection of not just higher ed or post-secondary education world, but it's also what's happening in terms of employer training. We've been doing that for the last 40 years—with Prior Learning Assessment and with ACE credit recommendations.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 7, 2021

This could be used before a lesson as a kind of front-loading or after a lesson as an informal assessment or reinforcement and review. For assessment, you could have students Pair & Share, then leave takeaways on an exit slip.). Affinity Groups. Remote Teaching and eLearning Friendly? Somewhat. Podcasting.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Abolishing the routine of announced observations, having teachers provide artifacts of evidence to show the bigger picture since you can never see all that is done in a single observation, and prioritizing the collection assessments over lesson plans can also be effective. We then share collective insight while processing the feedback.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. It is worth noting that at the younger ages, there was also significant growth in their reading achievement as measures by interim assessments (running records).

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. It is worth noting that at the younger ages, there was also significant growth in their reading achievement as measures by interim assessments (running records).

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iLearn Technology

APRIL 23, 2018

In the science classroom, students can: share each step of an experiment through the scientific method with each step being a new video, document dissection, reflect on failures, show the process of building or designing, make predictions, document process, demonstrate, post wonderings, or class challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Yet if we gave them documents on solid fuel propulsion, nuclear medicine and astrophysics, they would become struggling readers. It was difficult to set discrete objectives and difficult to teach and assess. An elementary, secondary and post-secondary school teacher, Patrick D. s and excellent reading skills.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

See this document for links to example year long calendars by day (more detailed) or by week (general unit names only). Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. Assessments on Fridays: I used to do a quiz in math every other Friday. Consider a weekly or biweekly pattern.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Google Docs : Google Docs is a free, web-based word processing tool that allows you to create and edit documents online and collaborate in real-time. Jamboard : is a web-based service that allows End Users to create, edit, share, collaborate, draw, export, and embed content within a document.

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