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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. Online Assessment. Assessment must respect learners, provide actionable feedback, and motivate. When you take time to improve assessment, students can improve their learning. Look at this course.

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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. You’ll even want to start with a Wow.

Course 339
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Reimagining Student Supports in a Year of Distance Instruction

Digital Promise

Through a large-scale, multi-year, federal project focusing on early literacy, we were able to gather feedback from educators on how instruction has been going this school year. In many cases, parent involvement understandably extends to supporting students in taking online assessments.

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6 EdTech Resources and Strategies to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Students

EdTechTeacher

Tool: iReady (Adaptive Math/ELA Assessment & Instruction). Used primarily in Elementary schools, with increasing use in Middle Schools, iReady is an adaptive learning software that provides online assessments, instruction and lesson resources for educators. iReady is also used as an instructional tool.

Strategy 110
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The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit - 110 sessions + 80 replays #homelearningsummit #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Elementary Years ? Starting to Homeschool : Webinar #2: The Elementary-School Years Starting to Homeschool : Webinar #3: What Will We Do Now That We’re Learning at Home? Blended Learning ? Brain-based Learning ? Classroom 2.0 ? College Admissions ? Connections ? Creativity ? Defining Success ? Digital Citizenship ? Engagement ?