The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In this 2015 photo, fifth graders collaborated on a Rube Goldberg machine in a Pennsylvania elementary school. For example, the United States ranked 39th in math on the 2015 PISA test. For example, between two boys with the same math scores, the boy who didn’t play video games tended to score higher on the collaboration test.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Whether it’s a group of retirees who cluster in the back of your corner coffee shop or the so-called Ponzi schemes of MFA programs like the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, assessment comes in the form of peer feedback—marginalia and discussion. As the educators I spoke with lamented, “the product is so hard to assess.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The teachers were first assessed on how they how they approached teaching potentially hot-button topics like climate change and evolution (for example, in some cases teachers might avoid conflict, try to take a middle ground and let kids come to their own conclusions, or avoid a controversial topic altogether).

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

For example, it can figure out what each student needs help with and give them special lessons just for them. It can assist in practicing vocabulary, sentence construction, grammar rules, or even engage in conversational exercises. Give four real world examples for each. In education, AI can be helpful.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. A first grader works on a math exercise during a summer program aimed at improving math and reading outcomes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

To illustrate to educators that they’re already taking these first core steps, a collaborative team from Michigan State University and New York City’s Hunter College School of Education ran a professional development workshop in July 2019 with NYC elementary school teachers based on a tour guide activity grounded in the New York subway system.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Many educators, especially early childhood and elementary teachers, do not have a STEM background so the task of integrating those subjects into daily classroom lessons can feel overwhelming. The typical elementary teacher does not have a STEM background, which can create a level of anxiety. They call it their Monday Morning Circle.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

The series will explore the challenges schools face in helping kids make progress in math, a pre-pandemic problem that has snowballed into an education crisis, and highlight examples of success. On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This back-to-school-season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Professors blame the pandemic In the most recent Program for International Student Assessment tests in math, or PISA, U.S.

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Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

2] Children who experience toxic stress, for example, are more likely to develop the following mental and physical illnesses later on:[3]. 4] For example, children with toxic stress are more likely to fit the parameters for chronic absenteeism , or excessive school absences.[6] Cardiovascular disease. Certain cancers. Depression.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

This is a fun exercise for students who are already active on Twitter, and also a good counting lesson for younger students. Assessing an audience and figuring out how to simplify a complex topic requires higher-level thinking and demands a true understanding of a topic, Novak says. Putting Email to Good Use.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Moreover, he points to the product’s assessment strategies focused on student outcomes, employing a combination of automated evaluations and teacher-led assessments to ensure comprehensive learning assessment. So kind of give us the the assessment? 00:00:33 Speaker 1 So what lands up happening is we take.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Across town, but in the same school district, teacher Alicia Simba leads 13 students, all 4-year-olds, in a breathing exercise in her classroom. billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. She wants to go home. The plan is that the $2.7

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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. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 14, 2022

Parents can use similar exercises for independent practice at home. For example, the word bat has three sound segments /b//a//t/ and the word swing has four sound segments /s//w//ee//ng/. Male Pupil In Elementary School Classroom Reading Book To Class With Teacher. For example, “nnnnoooo” for no. Stop Sounds.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 23, 2023

Many educators use tools like flashcards and repetitive reading exercises to help students memorize sight words. For example, trace letters in sand or with play-dough while saying the word out loud. Graphophonemic awareness: Development in elementary students. How Do Children Learn to Read Words by Sight? C., & Soffer, A.

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MindShift

MARCH 19, 2020

As an example of the first, you might be worried that you’re running out of bread. An example of the second might be worry over unemployment or wondering where the next pay check will come from. The second is finding positive distractions: talking to friends, watching funny movies, exercising, eating chocolate. Create routines.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

One way that we can exercise that is through our one-to-one initiative. And at the end of that year, we did some assessment, and we realized that we needed some more time to build this vision. What can it look like in an elementary classroom? An example. All of our learners have a device.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

She showed the students a video to review the math, then sent them scattering to different tables to practice the exercises they’d found challenging. “We But she said the district would find ways to measure student performance and assess kids’ views on the changes along the way. Still, the research is not unequivocal.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

This year, it was 47 percent — a 68 percent increase that disproportionately impacted Black and Hispanic students, according to a report by Amplify , a national K-8 curriculum and assessment company that analyzed data from 400,000 students across 1,400 schools over the last two years.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

I said, ‘OK, I’ll try it, but it’s not going to work,’ ” recalled Lopes, who teaches at the William D’Abate Elementary School. In 2017, for example, University of Missouri researchers compared students’ behavior problems and their math and reading scores with their teachers’ self-reported stress levels and coping abilities.

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Whether from formative and summative assessments or online instructional programs, data is both a powerful indicator of teaching and a driver for personalizing professional development. With this simple exercise, you have identified an area of need—as well as a valuable SME who is already overcoming the challenge.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students. They need the power to exercise their skill sets.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

Take your smartphone, for example, every month there’s a new update. You can create exercises where students are allowed to perform experiments on their device screens. For example, they can view the resulting solution after mixing four different chemicals together. Making mistakes is a part of learning process.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Although oral reading is important for pronunciation, it can also be viewed as a “word calling” exercise that doesn’t give students as much of an opportunity to test their word attack skills as silent reading does. This is key in allowing students to continually test their ability to deduce the meaning of words based on context.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 20, 2019

In order to familiarize students with STEM concepts, it must be introduced at an early age, preferably from the elementary level. Many schools have implemented STEM programs from the elementary level. For example, include a project where students have to build a functional prototype of a boat.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

I will give you recommendations about the classroom uses of each type of game and show you examples. For example, in the Flags of Countries ABC game, you see a flag for a country that letter of the alphabet, and you have to spell it and type it correctly. Educaplay currently has sixteen types of games and activities you can create.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As misleading news reports, misinformation and false data spread throughout the world, students of all ages need better instruction on how to assess media and data. The middle school exercise was almost not included in the study because researchers thought it was too easy, said Sam Wineburg, Stanford professor and lead author of the report.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. Rob Brown, Elementary School Principal Southside Christian School, South Carolina In brief, I realized this important fact: A teacher’s smile is a teacher’s game face.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For example, Heather’s team at Buffalo Trail Public Schools used robotics and coding to teach the learning outcomes. Educators could add digital resources and assessment pieces, and learners could submit assignments. When technology is used in this way, educators become guides as students explore and dive deep into the curriculum.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

But Steve had a special place in his heart particularly for elementary schools. And that assessment should not be something where you take the kids out of a learning environment, throw them into a lab and test them separately. In fact, the best example right now is probably Essa Academy in the UK. So I wrote a paper.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

both positive and negative) – Organizational self-assessment – Getting set up with our new Google+ community. traditional classroom ‘projects’ (how is PBL different from what we normally do in our classes?) – Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No, it sure isn’t.”. As assessment tools, these tests, and the learning plans they generate, fail to meet the needs of teachers and learners. .

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 108

The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No, it sure isn’t.”. As assessment tools, these tests, and the learning plans they generate, fail to meet the needs of teachers and learners. .

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 100

MindShift

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Indeed, many students in the public education system aren’t “catching” what they need to know about writing — the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress writing test found almost 75 percent of eighth- and 12th-graders in the U.S. wrote below grade level and only 3 percent of U.S. HOW PROGRESSIVE MASTERY WORKS.

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