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How to Blend DoK into Lesson Plans without a Comprehensive Rewrite

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Norman Webb’s Depth of Knowledge philosophy — an integral concept to her school’s mission. It got me thinking about lesson plans in general — how far we’ve come from lecture-test-move on. Rather, it itemizes ways students interact with knowledge. DoK is not a taxonomy (like Bloom’s).

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5 Favorite Activities to End the School Year

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How to search. It includes certificates of achievement, badges at the completion of units, and a classroom tracking poster to show how students are progressing. Here’s how to use it in your classroom: Cover one unit per week as a class, which will take about forty-five minutes. Cyber-bullying. Plagiarism.

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

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If teachers cannot meet in person, or if it’s not feasible to invite teachers into each others’ classrooms for observation, leverage things like podcasts, teacher blogs, and short videos to demonstrate how to teach specific skills. Let technology inform your approach to professional development. Driving student growth in California.

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What does it mean to be a teacher in higher education for the next decade

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Blended learning and online education are also gaining popularity which is why having digital literacy for teachers is crucial. Research mentality and continuous learning to stay updated. In the hands of a great teacher, technology can transcend the boundaries between knowledge and learning. How do we learn.

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How Can School Leaders Personalize Learning? New Book Offers a Guide.

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First of all, there were aspects of core instruction that we needed to figure out how to fit into that model. Let's zoom up to the present, zoom up to the book and talk about how you walk us through this balance question. How do we balance? So, we realized two things. We weren't able to replace them.

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Teaching Vocabulary in the Service of Knowledge

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How to Teach Critical Vocabulary Strategically. This approach helps students acquire a richer bank of words while developing knowledge. If the knowledge-based approach to reading instruction is new to you, fret not. Are there some words that matter more in English than other words? Where to Start?

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Becoming an Anti-Racist Childhood Educator and Social Warrior

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Teachers committed to true anti-racist instruction and learning must ask themselves: What are the knowledge bases of early childhood education that reproduce racial inequalities? Are certain voices, experiences, and identities excluded from how we conceptualize early childhood education? Tonia Durden, Ph.D.,

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