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6 Tech Activities for Your Summer School Program

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is an exercise as much for presenters as audience, and is graded on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. How can students make sure what they find is reliable and trustworthy? How can students behave correctly as they seek information? how to use email to stay in touch with family. analytical thinking.

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

Hapara

Learners will read about and discuss rules, decision-making and how to socialize in the classroom. “Interactive Middle School Math 7” This middle school math online textbook aligns to the Common Core State Standards. It offers a range of writing exercises specifically written for high school. Find out how H?para

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How to Prepare for the SAT Essay

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If students haven’t yet taken the PSAT/SAT, KA will put them through a detailed assessment, rank their skills, and then provide videos and exercise to drill the weakest subjects. What better tool than the one Khan Academy uses to score their writing exercises: Turnitin’s Revision Assistant. Mindsnacks SAT Vocabulary.

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Since Kentucky became the first state to adopt the Common Core in 2010, the achievement gap between students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers has widened slightly – despite sweeping expectations the more rigorous standards would help eliminate disparities in academic performance. Reframing expectations.

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6 Tech Activities for Your Summer School Program

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is an exercise as much for presenters as audience, and is graded on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. How can students make sure what they find is reliable and trustworthy? How can students behave correctly as they seek information? how to use email to stay in touch with family. analytical thinking.

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7+ Websites to Teach Financial Literacy

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Banzai is a personal finance curriculum that teaches high school and middle school students how to prioritize spending decisions through real-life scenarios and choose-your-own adventure (kind of) role playing. It also includes a teacher’s guide, a series of lesson plans, and the Common Core standards addressed.

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169 Tech Tip #127: 12 Tips on Hard-to-teach Classes

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In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Category: Differentiation.