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7 Things to Consider As We Return to Learn This Fall

The CoolCatTeacher

I hold a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education, earned at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. During my years of working in elementary education, I spent time as a classroom teacher as well as a school leader, all with the Sioux City Community School District in Sioux City, Iowa.

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Preparing Students for Online Assessments with Digital Literacy Skills

edWeb.net

Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma. How to Connect to Students and Understand Their Emotions (SEL).

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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. UDL is an excellent framework that can be used in any classroom.

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Digital Natives Still Need Help Navigating Online Assessments

Edsurge

You can find ways to bring in tools and assessments that mirror the functionality of the tests. Or, assuming you have enough computers in your classroom, try online writing exercises. Want to help your students prep for the functionality of online assessments? Practice makes perfect. Make it fun.

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Reimagining Student Supports in a Year of Distance Instruction

Digital Promise

Through a large-scale, multi-year, federal project focusing on early literacy, we were able to gather feedback from educators on how instruction has been going this school year. Even though kids had iPads, parents were not sure [how to use them for class]. For many adults, assessment was for your grade [when they were in school].

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PROOF POINTS: Three reports on student achievement during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

That’s because low-income students were less likely to attend in-person school, where diagnostic assessments were given, or take an online assessment at home. Those learning loss estimates are based on how students performed on i-Ready assessments administered in school in spring 2021.

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