The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. What we have learned with our kids is we have to be incredibly explicit with everything we do.” Related: What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read. Cat,” a boy in a Lego shirt said.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Educators are incorporating social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies and activities in their classrooms by creating routines, forming positive relationships, and building resilience. Tara Bova is a second grade teacher at Barbara Blanchard Elementary School in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. and Canada.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Self-assessment is a powerful strategy that encourages students to become more invested in their learning journeys. Self-assessment shifts the focus from a grade-centric perspective to a learning-centric one. It promotes ownership of learning, motivating students to be more engaged, active participants in their education.

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Assessment Strategy Exercises Groups 393

The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 6, 2024

Learn how to set boundaries, embrace self-care, and manage your mindset to transform stress into strength. Today, I interviewed Barb Flowers, an elementary school principal and host of the Teacher Burnout Podcast and the Less Stressed Principal Podcast. Today will be a refreshing encouragement for educators everywhere. Oh my goodness.

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Education Elementary Exercises Classroom 311

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Students can also choose from two additional exercise-focused electives — dance and personal fitness — which for some students can mean a 40-minute exercise period every day. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

In the wake of a pandemic, what’s the best way to manage a household, professional work, and children’s learning? With this privilege, we understand our responsibility to offer research and resources to help families, schools, teachers, and students who are navigating a new reality of learning. of the answers.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2017

I absolutely love all of the new robotics toys that have been coming out for elementary age learners. I am an advocate of student-centric learning and giving them choices as to which instructional activities they would like to engage. One of my gifted girls noted, “Where do all of these robots come from?” Dash and Dot.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Platforms like CoderZ offer virtual programming services where children can learn code through games. These games make learning code both fun and engaging for kids. Through the CoderZ Robotics curriculum, kids learn to create, manage, and communicate with cyber robots in a virtual setting by inputting code. Applications.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 4, 2023

Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. Here is the third part of our series:] Here is the third part of our series: Teacher Tip #3: Personalized Learning Why ChatGPT for Personalized Learning?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Many ICDL books are classified as “activities” meaning they are perfect for digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Due to the difficult epidemiological situation, the dominant part of universities, colleges, and schools have switched to distance learning. Learning remotely turned out to be challenging. It became clear that in order to be an excellent student, you can’t do without independent study or self-learning skills.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 1, 2015

My notes from yesterday’s Code.org elementary coding workshop… Ben Schafer , University of Northern Iowa, Facilitator. Code.org’s elementary school courses overview [VIDEO]. Code.org elementary curriculum was created in conjunction with Cal-Berkeley. Short 20-hour courses for elementary school. Ben’s slides (PPT).

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Waterford

MAY 3, 2021

Half are appropriate for in-person and hybrid classrooms depending on local guidelines, and half are great for distance learning classrooms. 25 Field Day Games for Elementary School Students. If you teach in an early elementary classroom, this pretend roller coaster can be a fun field day game for kids. Having a field day soon?

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Waterford

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Students can gain more from the learning process when they’re able to ask questions and discuss concerns. Verbal communication also helps students socialize and build friendships, which in turn helps the learning process.[10]. Some students may face emotional or physical challenges in learning good communication skills.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

Many ICDL books are classified as “activities” meaning they are perfect for digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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ExcelinEd

MAY 15, 2020

To wrap up this unusual National Charter Schools Week , we have been thinking about some of our youngest and most vulnerable learners: students attending elementary grades. Here are three examples of how elementary charters are continuing to provide instructional services to some of their youngest students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some kids appear to learn faster than others. After analyzing the learning rates of 7,000 children and adults using instructional software or playing educational games, the researchers could find no evidence that some students were progressing faster than others. The discovery contradicts our everyday experiences.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO — Kimberley Rose knew that breathing exercises could help kids calm down. Yet she never would have incorporated them into her classroom if she hadn’t experienced the power of these exercises herself. Photo Credit: Tina Nazerian At the same time, Nankin’s current adult students learned she was also a yoga teacher.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 11, 2024

Brian is the creator of the Homework Hacks Course , designed to equip students aged 13 to 20 with research-backed homework hacks and independent learning strategies. We can help our children learn! When people ask me my favorite App-building tool, I always say MAD-Learn. MAD-Learn is an amazing collaborative app building tool.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2023

As the founder of an organization that provides social-emotional learning (SEL) experiences for preK-12 students, educators and families, and a mother of three, I spend a great deal of time considering what this crisis means for schools and communities. Typically, we tend to associate SEL programs with elementary-aged students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting widespread shift to remote learning have brought major changes to phys ed in the United States. Meanwhile, public health experts say kids need exercise more than ever. “PE Related: How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The sudden shift to online or hybrid learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has created plenty of challenges for students, schools, and parents. But how can schools and families follow an IEP when learning moves online? Families whose students have an IEP may need extra support in managing distance learning and special education.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 1, 2019

But in the first multi-state effort to measure textbook efficacy since the implementation of the Common Core, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University saw no difference in the average fourth- and fifth-grade math achievement gains of schools using different elementary math textbooks.

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MIND Research Institute

APRIL 30, 2019

This is an experience where local business leaders and other community members are invited to visit a school, tour classrooms, meet students and teachers, and learn about the great things being done in education. I arrived at Jackson Elementary with a smile on the morning of March 22. We were both a little surprised! What are the odds?

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Elementary Meeting Exercises Classroom 49

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Dewdney uses breathing exercises in the classroom as one way to foster a sense of calm.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 12, 2023

Mobile apps have made it super easy for kids to learn in fun and engaging ways, anywhere anytime. There are tons of learning apps for kids out there and the choices can sometimes be confusing. However, one of the effective ways to select a learning app for your kids is by considering their learning interests and needs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You might be wondering how this is possible—how one might actually minimize their dependence on education technology in an era of remote instruction and screen-dependent learning. But doing so is imperative if we want to re-humanize learning experiences for our students. School leaders asked: Which apps should we download?

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

As a blended learning coach, I often see students at the elementary level rotate through a station rotation lesson like the one pictured below. Although I appreciate the value of adaptive software, it is important to pair online practice with a metacognitive exercise.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 19, 2020

Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning or The 30 Goals Challenge or take a fully accredited online course for graduate credit ( Online Learning Best Practices , Connected Educators or TESOL Methodologies )! This gives teachers the flexibility to engage all learning styles in the classroom. For example, Ms.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

“There is nothing black-and-white about how to best support our students and families,” said Dr. Barbara Adams, principal at Findley Elementary School in Des Moines, IA. The gray area is large when one-third of our students are learning English and all students receive free breakfast and lunch.”. Distance Learning is tough.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 4, 2020

This gives teachers the flexibility to engage all learning styles in the classroom. Bersani , a STEAM teacher at Blue Academy Elementary School, used the Codelicious computer science curriculum to teach her fourth-grade students how to write their initials in binary code using beads and bracelets. For example, Ms.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

From increased engagement to more inclusive environments, the correct application of EdTech improves a wide range of learning outcomes. Now, take that same young learner or teen and plug them into a tablet or other device and watch the involvement in the learning process take flight. Benefit #2: Accommodates Multiple Learning Styles.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The traditional classroom setup, with rows of desks and a board up front, has become, in many cases, too rigid to accommodate the next generation of K–12 learning. A flexible seating arrangement is a key part of this new, modern learning environment. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out the basics of a modern learning environment.

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Classroom EdTech Elementary Exercises 355

Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

2] Read on to learn how we got here, why it matters, and how teachers can build media literacy in the classroom. The good news is that information is easier to come by than ever before—many students, even at an elementary age, have access to smartphones, the Internet, and a pervasive, never-ending flow of social media.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

To recap, metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea. Using See, Think, Me, We…at the Elementary Level Analyzing a Picture Book See: The teacher shows an illustration from a picture book and asks the children what they see.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Many ICDL books are classified as “activities” meaning they are perfect for digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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