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Professor John Dunlosky is trying to bridge these two worlds , intentionally studying the effectiveness of strategies that lab studies indicate are promising, but that don’t require special technology or extra resources. MORE
Marisa Vickery, facilitator of learning and innovation at Walnut Elementary School in the Dripping Springs ISD, ran an after-school drone club that evolved into a full-fledged program after Dennis Baldwin, a software engineer and school parent who created an app called DroneBlocks. MORE
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.” He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. MORE
Event covers Devereux Student Strengths Assessment. 2. Jacquie Duginske, Coordinator of RtI & PBIS, Elementary at Community Unit School District 300. MORE
We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. At the younger ages, our assessment system is built so that students are seeing steady progress with benchmark books. MORE
Elementary school teachers often lack confidence in teaching math and are math anxious themselves. Research-based strategies designed to reduce the pressure around assessments can help those students who often show increased anxiety on tests, where they underperform. MORE
While almost any lesson plan can be adapted for outdoor learning, science courses are an excellent place to start, particularly for elementary students. Knowing ahead of time how you plan to assess students on a given topic can be an incredibly valuable tool in lesson planning. MORE
They have done a tremendous amount of work in experimenting with various productivity strategies in their classrooms and creating systems and routines that work well for them and their students. The topic for our first productivity roundtable is streamlining the grading and assessment process. MORE
In our third and final blog in our series on the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) we’ll explore successes in the elementary school context. Read our previous blog posts on Assessments and Personalization for the bigger picture. Next Generation Learning: Elementary School. MORE
The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels. We don't talk about that [grades] anymore,” says Amy Allen, principal at Parker Varney Elementary, a NG2 school. MORE
She regularly contributes literacy insights at Dr. Kimberly’s Literacy Blog and has collaborated in writing classroom curriculum and language arts sections as well as chairing the Elementary Reading National Evaluation Preparation Committee for Pearson Education. MORE
Today Alan November @globalearner shares an assessment idea that is gaining steam. In today’s ThoughtLeader Thursday, start thinking about this new idea in assessment. Alternative ways to try out the strategy. Want to hear another episode on assessment? MORE
From 1992 until 2007, the state’s average score for fourth-graders remained below the “basic” level of achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. MORE
Homework, assessments, projects. Wilson based her strategies on Professor John Hattie’s theories on Visible Learning and Teaching. Some of the best collaboration can be teachers working together on their professional development to explore and improve their teaching strategies. MORE
Less Is More: 4 Strategies To Streamline Your Curriculum. Here, we’ll focus on three major strategies; integrating, combining, and cutting. Less Is More: 4 Strategies For A More Efficient Curriculum. Combine Assessment Prep Into Daily Learning. MORE
We need more strategies than fist to five or thumbs up thumbs down. Teacher Mike Roberts give five strategies that can help us with formative assessment AND classroom management. MORE
When you enter Parker-Varney Elementary School, you are immediately struck by the relaxed atmosphere. Our second grade students in our 2/3 Band went from 29% proficient in September 2016 to 77% proficient in June 2017 on i-Ready reading assessments. Across Parker-Varney Elementary, teachers focus on what can work rather than on what is not working. Education Technology School Models Learning Strategies MORE
Policastro, McTague, and Mazeski bring the collective expertise of university professors and veteran teachers to bear in this thoroughly researched and well-documented book to assist educators as they develop formative assessment practices, says Nancy Chodoroff. MORE
” Both studies claim that students in lecture-style courses perform worse on assessments when allowed to use devices for note taking. And yet, content could also be tagged with study strategies, overarching themes or essential questions debated in class. By Beth Holland. MORE
Over the past three years, a group of elementary school students from Southeast Washington, D.C., Over time, the greater school community noticed how the institute’s work was impacting the kings and wanted to spread best practices around wellness from TBI across Stanton Elementary. MORE
The key strategy to get to this level of understanding involves a tried-and-true instructional practice: formative assessments and feedback. So what are some main characteristics of these assessment practices? Assessment Strategies and EdTech Resources in Action. MORE
Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments. As personalized learning becomes a more mainstream pedagogy in K–12 classrooms, teachers have started to adapt assessment processes to get a deeper look at student growth. . MORE
Looking (and assessing risk) before leaping. Six Classroom Strategies that Help Introverts Thrive. When Kasevich works with schools and educators, she shares several strategies for creating temperament-inclusive classrooms, including the following. MORE
And you know as well as I do that when kids get hold of a misconception, if we wait until there’s an assessment and then we catch it, it’s already so deeply rooted that it takes that much more time to undo it. MORE
Guides students with evidence-based learning strategies. How Student Goal Setting and Reflection Can Be Game-Changing in the Classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. MORE
Formative assessment is key. Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools is a helpful article that I wrote for Edutopia. Also see Better Teaching and Learning with Formative Assessment from Advancement Courses. Classroom management can be a challenge. MORE
I’ve kind of modeled off of Stephanie Harvey’s Strategies That Work , so there are different sections. Assessment Chromebooks Classroom Management Edtech Tool Tuesday Education ELA/ ELL Teachers Elementary Grades 1-5 (Ages 6-10) Gsuite and Google Apps How to Guides. MORE
With a solid track record of high performance on state assessments, the Byram Hills Central School District in Armonk, New York, has reason to be proud. In one of the elementary schools, two classrooms were combined to create a learning hub with a partial shared wall. MORE
When a competency-based approach to assessment is in place, students must show what they know as well as what they can do. And as interest in this approach to teaching and learning increases, so does the need for assessments to support it. Below are five ways to approach competency-based learning assessment. Formative Assessments—Happening in Real Time CBE takes students on a journey to demonstrate their knowledge, helping them prepare for the world and jobs that await them. MORE
Sites like Common Sense Education and edshelf make it easy to find the right alignment to the right instructional strategy. However, if a well-designed assessment is in place, then the natural course of action is to allow learners to select the best tool for the task. MORE
” In other words, this is meant as a learning technique, not for assessment. It has been used with elementary, middle, high school, and college students, but results were mixed for all groups. MORE
Eric Sheninger I remember back in 2012 when we began to implement blended learning strategies at my former high school. As technology has evolved so have many of the opportunities inherent in this strategy. blended learning edtech pedagogy Wells Elementary School MORE
Sponsor : PowerSchool has fantastic a fantastic K12 Academic Leaders Webinar Series at coolcatteacher.com/PowerSchoolWebinar including my “Digital Dozen: 12 Tips for Building Your Digital Classroom” and an upcoming webinar on “Best Practices for a Balanced Assessment System.” MORE
We need more strategies than fist to five or thumbs up thumbs down. Teacher Mike Roberts give five strategies that can help us with formative assessment AND classroom management. 5 Formative Assessment Strategies to Help with Classroom Management. MORE
Out of the many intervention strategies she provided, Cindy concluded with four important takeaways to keep in mind. Teach strategies and skills that can be widely applied, like phonics expectations, syllable types, roots, and affixes. MORE
Learn about the newest innovations in testing and assessment. Try these simple strategies from Todd Finley. See Fresh Grade’s Free Assessment Tools. 2 Power Assessment Tips: Learn about how Todd combines social-emotional learning with formative assessment. MORE
8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions. ” 8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions. 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. MORE
Active reading strategies are just as critical with digital reading as with their paper-based counterpart. Beyond having students use DocHub for active reading, it could also be useful for assessments. Come Learn More Strategies This Month in Boston! MORE
elementary and middle school classrooms, learning and understanding the language of mathematics can be a challenge. Kelly and Michele discussed key instructional strategies that can support ELL students in achieving higher in math. For many of the 4.5 MORE
We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. At the younger ages, our assessment system is built so that students are seeing steady progress with benchmark books. MORE
Assessing student learning used to be as simple as giving a test that consisted of multiple choice, True/False, short answer, and/or essay. The uniting characteristics are that all assess: what’s been learned. Self-assessment. MORE
The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
We need more strategies than fist to five or thumbs up thumbs down. Teacher Mike Roberts give five strategies that can help us with formative assessment AND classroom management. 5 Formative Assessment Strategies to Help with Classroom Management.
The CoolCatTeacher
JUNE 11, 2018
We need more strategies than fist to five or thumbs up thumbs down. Teacher Mike Roberts give five strategies that can help us with formative assessment AND classroom management.
Neo LMS
MARCH 6, 2018
In our third and final blog in our series on the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) we’ll explore successes in the elementary school context. Read our previous blog posts on Assessments and Personalization for the bigger picture. Next Generation Learning: Elementary School.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Assessing student learning used to be as simple as giving a test that consisted of multiple choice, True/False, short answer, and/or essay. The uniting characteristics are that all assess: what’s been learned. Self-assessment.
The CoolCatTeacher
JUNE 1, 2017
Today Alan November @globalearner shares an assessment idea that is gaining steam. In today’s ThoughtLeader Thursday, start thinking about this new idea in assessment. Alternative ways to try out the strategy. Want to hear another episode on assessment?
The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 5, 2016
Learn about the newest innovations in testing and assessment. Try these simple strategies from Todd Finley. See Fresh Grade’s Free Assessment Tools. 2 Power Assessment Tips: Learn about how Todd combines social-emotional learning with formative assessment.
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Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 6, 2015
” In other words, this is meant as a learning technique, not for assessment. It has been used with elementary, middle, high school, and college students, but results were mixed for all groups.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 16, 2018
Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments. As personalized learning becomes a more mainstream pedagogy in K–12 classrooms, teachers have started to adapt assessment processes to get a deeper look at student growth. .
Edsurge
JUNE 19, 2017
When you enter Parker-Varney Elementary School, you are immediately struck by the relaxed atmosphere. Our second grade students in our 2/3 Band went from 29% proficient in September 2016 to 77% proficient in June 2017 on i-Ready reading assessments. Across Parker-Varney Elementary, teachers focus on what can work rather than on what is not working. Education Technology School Models Learning Strategies
edWeb.net
MARCH 4, 2019
Homework, assessments, projects. Wilson based her strategies on Professor John Hattie’s theories on Visible Learning and Teaching. Some of the best collaboration can be teachers working together on their professional development to explore and improve their teaching strategies.
EdTechTeacher
JANUARY 9, 2019
The key strategy to get to this level of understanding involves a tried-and-true instructional practice: formative assessments and feedback. So what are some main characteristics of these assessment practices? Assessment Strategies and EdTech Resources in Action.
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edWeb.net
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Out of the many intervention strategies she provided, Cindy concluded with four important takeaways to keep in mind. Teach strategies and skills that can be widely applied, like phonics expectations, syllable types, roots, and affixes.
A Principal's Reflections
MARCH 17, 2019
Eric Sheninger I remember back in 2012 when we began to implement blended learning strategies at my former high school. As technology has evolved so have many of the opportunities inherent in this strategy. blended learning edtech pedagogy Wells Elementary School
The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 13, 2019
Formative assessment is key. Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools is a helpful article that I wrote for Edutopia. Also see Better Teaching and Learning with Formative Assessment from Advancement Courses. Classroom management can be a challenge.
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2017
The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels. We don't talk about that [grades] anymore,” says Amy Allen, principal at Parker Varney Elementary, a NG2 school.
MiddleWeb
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
Policastro, McTague, and Mazeski bring the collective expertise of university professors and veteran teachers to bear in this thoroughly researched and well-documented book to assist educators as they develop formative assessment practices, says Nancy Chodoroff.
The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 22, 2018
I’ve kind of modeled off of Stephanie Harvey’s Strategies That Work , so there are different sections. Assessment Chromebooks Classroom Management Edtech Tool Tuesday Education ELA/ ELL Teachers Elementary Grades 1-5 (Ages 6-10) Gsuite and Google Apps How to Guides.
Edsurge
AUGUST 24, 2018
Over the past three years, a group of elementary school students from Southeast Washington, D.C., Over time, the greater school community noticed how the institute’s work was impacting the kings and wanted to spread best practices around wellness from TBI across Stanton Elementary.
The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 15, 2018
Guides students with evidence-based learning strategies. How Student Goal Setting and Reflection Can Be Game-Changing in the Classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.
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. At the younger ages, our assessment system is built so that students are seeing steady progress with benchmark books.
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. At the younger ages, our assessment system is built so that students are seeing steady progress with benchmark books.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
From 1992 until 2007, the state’s average score for fourth-graders remained below the “basic” level of achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
The CoolCatTeacher
DECEMBER 14, 2017
And you know as well as I do that when kids get hold of a misconception, if we wait until there’s an assessment and then we catch it, it’s already so deeply rooted that it takes that much more time to undo it.
The CoolCatTeacher
JUNE 9, 2017
She regularly contributes literacy insights at Dr. Kimberly’s Literacy Blog and has collaborated in writing classroom curriculum and language arts sections as well as chairing the Elementary Reading National Evaluation Preparation Committee for Pearson Education.
edWeb.net
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
elementary and middle school classrooms, learning and understanding the language of mathematics can be a challenge. Kelly and Michele discussed key instructional strategies that can support ELL students in achieving higher in math. For many of the 4.5
The CoolCatTeacher
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Sponsor : PowerSchool has fantastic a fantastic K12 Academic Leaders Webinar Series at coolcatteacher.com/PowerSchoolWebinar including my “Digital Dozen: 12 Tips for Building Your Digital Classroom” and an upcoming webinar on “Best Practices for a Balanced Assessment System.”
Edsurge
MAY 22, 2017
When a competency-based approach to assessment is in place, students must show what they know as well as what they can do. And as interest in this approach to teaching and learning increases, so does the need for assessments to support it. Below are five ways to approach competency-based learning assessment. Formative Assessments—Happening in Real Time CBE takes students on a journey to demonstrate their knowledge, helping them prepare for the world and jobs that await them.
Nureva
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
With a solid track record of high performance on state assessments, the Byram Hills Central School District in Armonk, New York, has reason to be proud. In one of the elementary schools, two classrooms were combined to create a learning hub with a partial shared wall.
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.” He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories.
MindShift
MAY 21, 2017
Professor John Dunlosky is trying to bridge these two worlds , intentionally studying the effectiveness of strategies that lab studies indicate are promising, but that don’t require special technology or extra resources.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MARCH 9, 2015
Less Is More: 4 Strategies To Streamline Your Curriculum. Here, we’ll focus on three major strategies; integrating, combining, and cutting. Less Is More: 4 Strategies For A More Efficient Curriculum. Combine Assessment Prep Into Daily Learning.
MindShift
AUGUST 17, 2017
” Both studies claim that students in lecture-style courses perform worse on assessments when allowed to use devices for note taking. And yet, content could also be tagged with study strategies, overarching themes or essential questions debated in class. By Beth Holland.
TeachThought - Learn better.
APRIL 14, 2015
8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions. ” 8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions. 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.
eSchool News
JUNE 18, 2015
Event covers Devereux Student Strengths Assessment. 2. Jacquie Duginske, Coordinator of RtI & PBIS, Elementary at Community Unit School District 300.
The Cornerstone Blog
MARCH 4, 2018
They have done a tremendous amount of work in experimenting with various productivity strategies in their classrooms and creating systems and routines that work well for them and their students. The topic for our first productivity roundtable is streamlining the grading and assessment process.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Marisa Vickery, facilitator of learning and innovation at Walnut Elementary School in the Dripping Springs ISD, ran an after-school drone club that evolved into a full-fledged program after Dennis Baldwin, a software engineer and school parent who created an app called DroneBlocks.
MindShift
AUGUST 12, 2018
Looking (and assessing risk) before leaping. Six Classroom Strategies that Help Introverts Thrive. When Kasevich works with schools and educators, she shares several strategies for creating temperament-inclusive classrooms, including the following.
EdTechTeacher
JULY 6, 2015
Active reading strategies are just as critical with digital reading as with their paper-based counterpart. Beyond having students use DocHub for active reading, it could also be useful for assessments. Come Learn More Strategies This Month in Boston!
A Principal's Reflections
JULY 8, 2018
Sites like Common Sense Education and edshelf make it easy to find the right alignment to the right instructional strategy. However, if a well-designed assessment is in place, then the natural course of action is to allow learners to select the best tool for the task.
Wisewire
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
While almost any lesson plan can be adapted for outdoor learning, science courses are an excellent place to start, particularly for elementary students. Knowing ahead of time how you plan to assess students on a given topic can be an incredibly valuable tool in lesson planning.
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