Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2023

In a series of blogs, I’ll be exploring each thinking routine and providing suggestions for how teachers across grade levels can harness the power of these thinking routines with students. Using See, Think, Wonder at the Elementary Level Science Exploration: Use this routine during nature walks or while exploring the schoolyard.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 16, 2018

Q&A: Class Tech Tips Blogger Monica Burns Explains How to Work with Digital Tools. Starting in the fall of 2011, Burns spent two years working in a one-to-one environment with tablets in an elementary school setting. Or is it big picture, such as learning how to collaborate more effectively with others? jena.passut_7651.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 18, 2021

On a typical day when I visit classrooms with principals in my partner districts across the country, both the building and district leaders receive a 1000-to-5000-word document laden with practical feedback. One of the key points I tried to make was how important it is to do the same with teachers. The result was “Feedback Fridays.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2021

I like how each of these courses aligns with national and state standards. If a topic is of interest to you or your school, you can download standards-alignment documents to help find a fit. The unit concludes with a lesson about insurance and how it helps students manage risk. Grade level: elementary grades.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Many studies have documented the benefits of proper typing technique (McKay, 1998; Owston, 1997; Bartholome, 1996; Bieman, 1996; Hoot, 1986). An overview of research says elementary and middle schoolage students are cognitively, emotionally, and physically capable of learning and excelling at keyboarding skills. Zeitz, 2008.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

First, let’s overview what Lumio does and how it works. You can upload anything you already have in your classroom, every pdf, every electronic document, or the materials you’ve purchased and add to Lumio. How to get to the site. Sponsored Blog Post This blog post is sponsored by Lumio. All opinions are my own.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For Educators: How to Run a Parent-Teacher Conference. Here are a few ideas for items that you could include on the document: Strengths and weaknesses. Avoid using educational jargon, which can confuse parents who aren’t as familiar with elementary teaching terms.[7]. National Association of Elementary School Principals.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Using Claim-Evidence-Question at the Elementary Level Literature Analysis: After reading a story or book, students make a claim about a central theme or main character’s motivations, provide evidence from the text, and pose questions about the main idea or character.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Puskar Experts say math research hasn’t gotten as much funding or attention, especially beyond the elementary level. This back-to-school-season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. on Tuesday, Sept.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Neeb, the principal of Williams Elementary School, and Tickle, a digital learning specialist and Google Certified Trainer, presented “The Whole Ball of Wax: A Place for Everything,” on Monday. The old method was a mix of paper and cloud-based documents, but it didn’t work very well, Neeb and Tickle said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This back-to-school-season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Piedmont Elementary School in Piedmont, Alabama. Related: How can schools dig out from a generation worth of lost math progress?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

CHICAGO — In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi,” a fictional preschool teacher who loves reading but struggles in math. The Math Problem Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S.

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Hapara

JULY 19, 2023

Collaborate One of the benefits of Google Docs for learners is that it increases their productivity because they can access their documents from any device. Learners don’t need their own separate documents, nor do they need to sit together in person. FREE GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS Find out how Hāpara helps empower and engage learners.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2024

By 5, most children know how to use the bathroom. But having an accidentat that age isn’t uncommon, and there are plenty of medical and behavioral reasons for these mishaps that have nothing to do with knowing how to use a toilet, Brown said. If they had an accident, they weren’t capable of changing themselves, ” Elegante said. “It

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Using Apple TVs, projectors, document cameras, interactive whiteboards and an array of tablets, desktops, and laptops that would ultimately serve as the technological cornerstone for our entire district. Two of the four elementary schools in our district have a higher percentage of economically disadvantaged students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 29, 2021

They don’t necessarily know how to navigate that process. And probably not as much at the middle school and high school level but at elementary certainly they want to know who their teachers are. I hold a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education, earned at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. VICKI: 13:36.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

How could we transform a traditional, dysfunctional, low-performing system measured by high-stakes assessments into a system with exceptional teaching and learning environments that developed students empowered to change the world? At Summit Elementary, traditional grade levels have been eliminated and replaced with instructional levels.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing to Learn: How Writing Positively Impacts Learning & Academic Success The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) states that writing is “ one of the most important skills that students acquire and develop during K-12 schooling.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

From April until August, Perry marched them through documentation requests, often meeting them in the school parking lot before entering the darkened building to use the copier in the main office. The post How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? In Lindsay’s case, that is certainly true.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The advent of interactive large-format displays further expands the options for achieving the documented benefits delivered by this transformative classroom technology. You’ll find them in elementary classrooms and university lecture halls. The ability to collaborate on text documents, spreadsheets, design projects, etc.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Brandon Taylor I am learning how to teach AI together with students. They articulated how they would and would not use [AI-assisted text generators] at school and built the ethics with their understanding and discussion. I created a shared [document] and asked students to submit their ideas, followed by a class discussion.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

They can jump online and watch a video tutorial to learn how to do something that interests them. One of the first videos she found was titled “10 Science Projects for Elementary School Students,” which demonstrates a simple experiment and explains what is happening. She sought out YouTube videos.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017). Teachers there give students many options for how to use different technologies. The report also emphasizes that students need to be given chances to actively, creatively use ed tech.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 18, 2020

One notable challenge facing educators during Remote Learning is how to teach reading and literacy from a distance. The art of teaching reading involves a creative mindset when addressing the pedagogical “how” to deliver reading instruction from a distance. Florida elementary educator Ms.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2023

Google Bard FAQ Document Again, Google Bard only keeps the prompts but not the answers. How to join the waitlist. Winner: ChatGPT Revisions On thing I particularly liked about Google Bard is how it will show you three drafts of answers for each question. I hope this quiz helps you learn how to use commas correctly.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A new report by the nonprofit educational assessment maker NWEA documents that third graders are currently suffering the largest pandemic-related learning losses in reading , compared to older students in grades four to eight, and not readily recovering. Learning to read well in elementary school matters. That would maybe be easier.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Schools have been able to hold virtual meetings and use digital documents for parents who are at work, which has helped with parent-teacher conferences and meetings about individualized education programs, or IEPs, for students with a disability. Of course, that kind of high-tech surveillance in schools has raised privacy concerns.)

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 19, 2020

And, think about ways to document these benefits. Observe and document which practices are getting good results (or perhaps better results than face to face instruction) for your students. . But let’s stay in this mode of simply observing, documenting, and envisioning. Document what you’re experiencing.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

? Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] While edtech tools are in most classrooms, not every educator understands how to use technology in meaningful ways. Read on to learn how to use technology in the classroom to truly engage students. Her role was to support educators in innovative practices.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 27, 2018

Eric: You could definitely use these with your elementary students without a doubt. You could definitely use this with your lower elementary students. That way they can simply drag the words over and not have to worry about how to spell things. So it definitely scales up for upper elementary and for middle school kids as well.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

When I was in elementary school, we often were paired with a classmate for different activities and it was a great way to develop our social skills as well as develop new perspectives in learning. Our students need to learn how to interact in the same digital space and one of the best ways is to use either Google or Microsoft.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The ideal platforms for tutoring are those that allow for live collaboration and document storage. After making sure that your device has a working camera and microphone, here’s how to set up a video call via Skype or Google Hangout in 3 simple steps: Skype: Download Skype , follow the prompts to create an account, and sign in.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

Because the videos begin with how to set up an Educaplay account, I recommend that you skip to 47 seconds by dragging the slider bar so you can get directly to how to create the specific classroom learning game. For example, this slide show on how to read population pyramids is useful. ABC Games: For Comprehensive Vocabulary.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

The winning nominator and his or her nominee each win a $20,000 package including one 7000 series SMART Board and SMART Document Camera, 30 Chromebooks, and SMART training and implementation. Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. Enter a great teacher today. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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Hapara

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In a nutshell, heutagogy emphasizes relearning how to learn. They help instruct learners how to teach themselves and serve as role models. Students in turn negotiate their learning and determine what they will learn and how. Educators may need to nurture students and remind them how to be active learners.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

Yet despite some efforts to document the experiences and outcomes of multilingual learners in the district, a legal monitor noted last year that Boston’s school leaders had defied requests for records showing how it spent its funds.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

In our policy paper we explore how micro-credentials can transform the way teachers are evaluated and compensated for advanced roles as leaders without leaving the classroom.

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