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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. The first step to planning an effective lesson is to decide what skill you will teach using the Common Core or state standards specific to your content area and grade level.

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Prodigy: Virtual world of math

iLearn Technology

Prodigy is a game-like fantasy world where students engage in math along their adventures. Prodigy is a virtual world where students can play together with classmates. In the virtual world, students are wizards who learn magic and spells to defeat over 100 monsters. Curious about how we use technology at Anastasis?

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Going Schoolwide with Reading Engagement: How We Got to Now

Reading By Example

This is a follow up to a previous post about our school’s collective efforts to increase student engagement in reading, especially in their dispositions around talking about and sharing their reading lives. Specifically, they felt that students needed more structure. The Common Core State Standards were a primary focus.

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What should new teachers know before they set foot in a classroom?

The Hechinger Report

. — Elly Eckhoff listened intently as a group of veteran teachers listed what they think rookie teachers need before entering the classroom: more time student teaching and more training in how to communicate with colleagues, parents and students themselves. And then she spoke. Related: Ready for Day One? .”

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How to Integrate Multimedia and Writing Instruction With VR, Video and Digital Timelines

Edsurge

My job is to make sure that the tech use is meaningful and purposeful - when used correctly technology can help enhance and transform my lessons, provide real-world activities, and increase student engagement. We all strive to develop students with the skills necessary to be successful after high school graduation.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Assistant Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education) Using Scratch and Picoboards to teach "x", Maths and Science - Martin Levins, Director IT What''s The Connection?

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Teaching social studies in a polarized world

The Hechinger Report

But instead of strengthening social studies or helping more students engage with the subject, the focus in recent years has been on undermining or attacking it, he said. Sessions at the conference also focused on how to strengthen and improve social studies materials and instruction.

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