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Choosing Not to Grade Student Work

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I am a seminar facilitator for student teachers, and I teach gifted education at three Title 1 elementary schools. Although Jesse Stommel does ungrading in higher education – see How to Ungrade ). Across education, we’ve normalized absurd levels of grading, test-taking, and standardized assessment.

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8 ways to stay ahead in lesson planning (without sacrificing student needs)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

If you teach elementary, you’ll likely have different structures for different content areas as well. Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. See this document for example lesson plans for primary, upper elementary, and secondary using the following templates/structures.

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Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

The Hechinger Report

Audrianna Lesieur, age 11, smiles after demonstrating the strength of “Confidence” with encouragement from classmate William Maestas as her teacher Val Seamons moves on to assist Billy Sabo at Lake Canyon Elementary School. Karen Schauer, superintendent, Galt Joint Union Elementary School District. GALT, Calif. Weekly Update.

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8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions

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This framework can be used not only as a planning or assessment tool, but to promote students in self-directed learning and self-created questioning and examination. The Teaching Channel video above models the Socratic Discussion/Socratic Seminar process. Paideia Seminar. The upside? Socratic Discussion. From the (a?)

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8 ways to stay ahead in lesson planning (without sacrificing student needs)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

If you teach elementary, you’ll likely have different structures for different content areas as well. Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. See this document for example lesson plans for primary, upper elementary, and secondary using the following templates/structures.

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8 ways to stay ahead in lesson planning (without sacrificing student needs)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

If you teach elementary, you’ll likely have different structures for different content areas as well. Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. See this document for example lesson plans for primary, upper elementary, and secondary using the following templates/structures.

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Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class

The Hechinger Report

and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. But when it came to how they’d really work, the attitude was, ‘Let’s let the teachers worry about it.’ ”. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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