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How Using Slack Can Improve Socratic Seminars

Edsurge

Our interest in academic discourse, and by extension Socratic seminars, stems from our work as Hollyhock fellows at Stanford’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. The fellowship is a two-year program of professional development designed to combat the teacher retention problem, primarily in low-income schools.

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CAE Presents Case For Authentic Assessment To Improve Student Outcomes At Beyond Multiple Choice Seminar

eSchool News

Experts in performance-based assessment share research on student engagement and effort. According to Beyond Multiple Choice, assessments have come increasingly under fire over the past decade, with critics claiming they are overused, inequitably applied, and not aligned with optimal outcomes for training and education.

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Balance the Delivery

Ask a Tech Teacher

I found that students were happy using the technology, but some would rather complete work pen to paper or do an assessment/project without the technology. . Departments may also use this approach at the secondary level and at grade levels for the elementary level. Online discussions can move to face to face.

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22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation

TeachThought - Learn better.

Paideia Seminar. You can read more about the Paideia Seminar here. Socratic Seminar. You can read more here in What Is A Socratic Seminar? This could be used before a lesson as a kind of front-loading or after a lesson as an informal assessment or reinforcement and review. See more on that at number 11 below.).

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How not to write about HyFlex or online learning

Bryan Alexander

A second problem comes in the article’s view of who’s involved in post-secondary teaching. The problem is that the piece cites a liberal arts campus as an example of post-secondary education as a whole. Over the past two years I’ve taught a series of HyFlex seminars at Georgetown. That’s about 2.5%

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3 apps that lead to improved executive functioning skills

eSchool News

Executive functioning skills are the foundation of academic success in college, but similar to ‘soft skills’ in the workplace, are often not explicitly taught in secondary education. It may be helpful to first do an executive functioning skill assessment with students to determine their current level of EF strengths and weaknesses.

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How One Student Email Could Have Been Life-Changing

Gaggle Speaks

We were fortunate this year to sponsor the California School Public Relations Association (CalSPRA) Annual Seminar. It’s at events like these where our team can have important conversations about student online safety. We detail what unfolded in an incredible new case study with a great ending to this story.