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3 Reasons Teachers Should Use the Playlist Model

Catlin Tucker

I’ve trained many teachers who use choice boards and ask, “What’s the difference between a choice board and a playlist?” Research Projects: When students engage in research projects, they need time to gather information, synthesize their findings, and put together presentations or reports to share their findings.

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How More Teachers are Being Trained in the Science of Reading

MindShift

Hughes, a first-year teacher, said she learned how to teach this important decoding skill to help struggling readers in her pre-service training. And a new report suggests that her students’ future reading success might rely, in part, to that training. . Training teachers before they head into classrooms.

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More than a passion project, literacy advocacy takes a village

eSchool News

I provide training for teachers in my district in science-based literacy practices,” Irion-Frake said. The National School Board Association reports that population of students performed two to three grade levels below their white peers in reading and math. Literacy is not coloring, worksheets, and workbooks.

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How Remote PD is Helping This District Get Back to School

Edsurge

We had to balance providing teachers time to prepare for 100 percent online instruction with the need to provide PD pertaining to specific areas like SEL, differentiated instruction and technology integration. OTIS really helped our teachers meet our district’s goals in using technology to deliver high quality instruction.

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Student teachers fail test about how kids learn, nonprofit finds

The Hechinger Report

However, experts say schools of education — the institutions that train teachers — often don’t do that. Leave this field empty if you're human: The results were “sobering,” according to a March 2020 report, “ Learning by Scientific Design; Early insights from a network informing teacher preparation.”

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Increasing Student Participation During Zoom Synchronous Teaching Meetings

User Generated Education

teacher education Zoom meetings although they can be adapted for any age group and age level (3rd grade and up), and in training professionals. In this case, I inform the Breakout Groups to decide on a spokesperson or two to report to the whole group. Below are some the activities I have used during my. Breakout Groups.

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Evidence-Based Phonemic Awareness Program for Young Learners Unveiled by 95 Percent Group

eSchool News

The focus of phonemic awareness is on those sounds, but recent research reports that good phonemic awareness instruction makes the critical connection to the grapheme—letters or groups of letters—that represents the sound. The 95 Phonemic Awareness Suite is a prime example of this research brought to life in the classroom.

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