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Relevant Thinking and Learner Success

A Principal's Reflections

This might involve practical exercises, experiments, or real-life scenarios that require students to use their knowledge practically. For instance, math concepts can be reinforced through budgeting exercises or measuring ingredients in a cooking project. Assessment is integral to the Relevant Thinking Framework.

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Does the Word ‘Teacher’ Still Describe What Educators Do in the Classroom?

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She says the teaching practice has changed and the expectations put on teachers are vast, noting that they are expected to pre-assess to gauge where students are beginning from, learn multiple technology tools, differentiate their instruction, finding out students’ interests and habits, personalize their instruction and ensure continued growth.

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Four Ways You Can Use Data to Create a Personalized, Teacher-Driven PD Playbook

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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. Build a PD playbook.

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How to Build Lifelong Learners

Ask a Tech Teacher

Teachers get tangled in a web of standards, mission statements, and assessments, and spend too much time on what their institution considers essential. Make it an extension of what is learned not an assessment, a repeat, or dreaded rote drills. A thinking brain can’t be corralled. Assign homework.

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Apple’s Longtime Education VP Shares Frustrations With Slow Pace of Change

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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. I said if we're not careful, our institutions will take Steve's vision of a mental bicycle and turn it into an exercise cycle—something that's boring and doesn't go anywhere. This was 1978.

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Is It Time To Go Back To Basics With Writing Instruction?

MindShift

I think what’s most counter-cultural, and not really in the knowledge base, is how to develop students at the level of the sentence and all the ramifications that has in terms of thinking and content,” Scharff Panero said. And, McHugh has found that the writing exercises help her see where students have gaps in their knowledge.

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Education Needs to Push the Hard-Reset Button

EdNews Daily

This will ensure highest and best practices for an ever-evolving knowledge base. These modules/learning packets accumulate to a complete body of knowledge. Health and human function, including diet and exercise knowledge. Begin each student with a common play-based curriculum. . The 30,000 Foot View.

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