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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Online Assessment. Assessment must respect learners, provide actionable feedback, and motivate. Sometimes this feels like a Herculean task, but there are best practices to help all of us get better at assessment. When you take time to improve assessment, students can improve their learning. Look at this course.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

In addition, you’ll discover how to make your lessons differentiated and inclusive, to ensure equitable outcomes for students regardless of learning style or access to technology at home.” Digital Assessments How can we effectively assess learning in a digital classroom? Check out the course 17.

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Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments

EdTech Magazine

However, companies are developing adaptive learning and formative assessment tools quickly to keep up with the growing interest. Montero also has access to data collected directly from the online assessments he conducts, which give him further insight into where lessons should be directed. .

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Should Career Counselors Use Digital Personality Tests to Help Students Choose Majors?

Edsurge

Donnelly selected a career-advising platform owned by the Myers-Briggs Company—yes, the makers of that classic personality test. The system offers students a short online assessment of their interests , then matches them with Butte degree programs that may be a good fit for them.

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In the marketplace: Gaming, digital citizenship, PD initiatives, and more

eSchool News

Teq , a Long Island-based educational technology and professional development (PD) company, has received approval from the New York State Department of Education to provide Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE). A new round of funding is enabling the company to make an even bigger difference in the way students learn.

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How Colleges Are Thinking Differently to Serve Adult Students

Edsurge

Colleges and companies are trying to learn how to attract and educate this large population of current and potential adult learners. Audience question]: I'm a representative of an e-assessment platform company [from the Netherlands]. What can we do differently?

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Funding Edtech with the E-Rate Program and Grants

edWeb.net

And with online assessments now being required in many states, reliable broadband access is also essential so that students’ knowledge and skills are accurately represented, and technology is not a barrier to achievement and its documentation. Another important factor is whether the project could be replicated elsewhere.

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