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Get Common Core Ready: Achieve Dynamic Student-led Discussions

Catlin Tucker

Online icebreakers give students an opportunity get to know one another and build a community online. Note: For educators interested in incorporating online discussions into their curriculum, my first book Blended Learning in Grades 4-12 provides resources and strategies to support this shift. Learning'

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Flip Your Back-to-School Night

Catlin Tucker

I explain why I believe it’s important to place students at the center of learning in the classroom and how I use blended learning strategies and technology to create a student-centered learning experience. Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology Available NOW ! .

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The FREE Lesson Plans and Resources You Aren’t Using! (but should be) – SULS0148

Shake Up Learning

With the emergence of Common Core and very few resources available to align with these new standards, teachers began utilizing OER once again. There was an influx of districts assigning teachers or instructional coaches to compile OER options that reflected the needs of common core. para help? . para website. .

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Three simple steps for creating lesson plans

Hapara

Lesson plans serve as a teacher guideline for what students will learn, why they are learning a skill and how they will learn it and demonstrate their proficiency. Then, identify the main learning objectives to focus on to develop that skill. How do I sequence tasks to build understanding and skills?

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Four Ways to Redefine Parent Teacher Conferences—With a Little Help from Ironman

Edsurge

Create conditions for students to self-advocate I set a minimum expectation for myself to keeping my grade book up-to-date on a daily basis. In my first year teaching math, I built and maintained a complex grade book using Google Sheets. Three student-centered strategies. Edtech requires student buy-in too.

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Literacy in the Digital Age: 9 Great Speaking & Listening Tools

Educator Innovator

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) stress the importance of communication, and challenge students to engage in conversation by using evidence to support an argument, while evaluating and listening to others’ perspectives. is a platform that allows students to take notes synchronized with video. VideoNot.es

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