ProfHacker

MARCH 9, 2015

The process of getting to that outcome may be even more valuable then anything actually produced, but that process is difficult to assess or reward. In undergraduate education, then, it’s easy for creative thinking to be an afterthought to more measurable outcomes. This method was on display at the EURECA “Creatopia” day.

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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 52

Mistakengoal.com

AUGUST 10, 2016

Part of that program requires (nearly) all undergraduate students to take a First-Year Seminar (FYS) course and one of the resolutions updated some of the specific outcomes of that course. Last spring, the faculty senate of my university passed a series of resolutions aimed at updating the university’s general education program.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Title for Kaylsta: 3 assessment tools that support student individuality and assets (not deficits). Original title: assessment-tools-that-support-student-individuality. There is another approach to assessment that supports students’ individuality and provides teachers with effective information about their learning.

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Ten years ago two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K-12 landscape where few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. And still, within a mastery-based flipped learning classroom, there would be time to spare for projects, genius hours and Socratic seminars galore.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Standing in front of large groups of undergraduates to give a lecture, or running a seminar for a small group of students looks fun, and usually it is. The inevitable round of time consuming interviews, public relations exercises, open days and other associated duties follows - in fact it is scheduled for the entire year for many departments.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Students need to exercise this new habit every day. This method is still sound 1600 years after Socrates and 15-ish years after the Socratic Seminars were first established. However, Marzano and Toth (2014) warn us that we must ask our students to live in a world of complexity. So How Do We Ask “Why?” Who authored?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 9, 2015

I don’t typically announce when telling the joke that my aim is to make you laugh or that I wrote that short story as an exercise in irony. However, when you moved to the small-group exercise using the ‘mystery text’, I saw such off-task behavior in only 1 student.” These are goal-related factual statements, not judgments. References.

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Learning Assessment Sony Exercises 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

Yet he thinks that philanthropy leaders are exercising more humility lately, including about education. An adult suggested that rather than trying to make a school exercise feel “fun,” they instead aim to make it “engaging” and “interactive.” But that’s not always easy to assess. Teachers and administrators chimed in, too.

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Policies Data Examples Exercises 166

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

The DOE also has offered professional development seminars for school staff on how to support students coping with grief and loss, a spokesperson said. Yarely remembers learning breathing exercises during counseling sessions and being encouraged to do something that she loved as a way to feel better.

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Training Report Analysis Elementary 91

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It sounds at first like an ambitious book club—except for the fact that many of these seminars are organized and led by college professors, some so eager to participate that they do it for free. Although some of their seminars are intended as what Hitz calls a “friendly supplement” to college curricula, others are more openly antagonistic.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 16, 2022

Education today has become large and focused on many things beyond the needs of learners, such as tests, curriculum and assessment. He is the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice and lead author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems.

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