eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Dozens of states are moving to align their teaching practices with the science of reading, a body of research on how children learn that emphasizes explicit phonics instruction alongside helping students build vocabulary and knowledge about the world. Other advocacy groups have laid out different priorities for reading instruction.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

At the same time, the teacher can pull small groups for targeted instruction or support. Recently, I was asked by some Kindergarten teachers at Howell Elementary School in Tennessee during one-on-one coaching sessions about ELA-specific stations that would be great for young learners.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 7, 2014

We not only want students engaged, but also want to see evidence of learning aligned to high standards as well as the development and application of essential skill sets. Image credit: [link] The other day I had the unique challenge and opportunity of working with elementary teachers in the Spotswood School District.

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 20, 2021

So much so that the ultimate frisbee champion and class valedictorian mentioned it while delivering his graduation speech to the students of Amelia Earhart Options for Knowledge Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, last month. Interested in working with an amazing group of colleagues who give back to the community?

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In this classroom-focused episode, join us as we explore seven innovative strategies to breathe new life into worksheets, turning them into powerful vehicles for learning and student engagement. flash card game, group contest, and scavenger hunt can make worksheets more exciting. Group contest 09:41 7. Let's get started.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Even Ancient Romans associated the concept of elementary school ( ludus ) with play ( ludere ). When learning is fun, students are more likely to be interested in what you’re teaching, be more relaxed during the class, and better retain information. Mixing education and entertainment in the classroom. Next-level collaboration.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 23, 2018

Recently, we interviewed three 5th grade teachers who shared more about the transformational role technology plays in student engagement at PWCS. Recently, my students explored how to create different kinds of bridges and there was a website and interactive videos to help me facilitate the lesson.

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2018

Setting Teachers and Students Up for Success My company creates interactive and personalized UX, and our job is to make the experience for the teacher and learner as clear and stress-free as possible. This takes more than gathering people together in a focus group.

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 8, 2020

Additionally, childcare is not as a big of a concern for older children, but what about elementary school students? Set up a private group, using your school's email address. Set up a private group, using your school's email address. Designate group administrators and moderators. Set the group rules.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 25, 2020

This lesson can be an introduction to a poetry unit for elementary students. It allows the teacher to position responsibility for instruction more on the group and each student. In other words: to increase student engagement, we must reduce our instruction. Primary Level.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

The best part is the conversations that I get to have with learners, especially at the elementary level. Then there is the practicality of being able to work with both administrators and teachers at the ground level to improve pedagogy and, in turn, student outcomes. Case in point. Recently I was conducting learning walks in Edward K.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Still, teachers are tirelessly putting in their best effort to make distance learning work for their students. Teachers are changing the nature of the partnerships that schools typically have with students’ families. They can help teachers monitor student needs and plan their small-group lessons with that additional information. “I

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There are many helpful resources for teachers and students to get started. CoderZ is a cloud-based option where students can code 3D robots. Read more: Promoting student well-being through serious games. Kubo coding is a good program for starting with elementary students, specifically grades K through 5.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH: See how blended learning platforms such as Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams can improve student engagement. And don’t overlook the Topics tool , which lets you label and group posts in Classwork. . Organize Student and Faculty Resources. Here are four ways to put Google Classroom to work for you.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2023

Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. They compared them with 8,000 students at 21 other schools that had to wait and didn’t get the extra arts for at least a couple years.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

These words, after all, are important to students’ ultimate reading success. The nuances of teaching high frequency words in early elementary would only arise around how these words should be taught. There are a number of digital flashcard apps teachers can use to help students memorize high frequency words.

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MindSpark

JUNE 7, 2022

But before finding out how Wiesel makes sense of death, asking what death means to the students and comparing their viewpoint with the author’s allows for cognitive comparison, synthesis and an evolution of thought.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

As schools identify necessary actions within the network schools’ Theory of Action plans, educators who have learning needs in those areas (such as student engagement, assessment literacy, collaborative coaching, etc.) Personalized PD strengthens both individual and group skills. Learn more about our work.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 24, 2015

Research Seeks Scale For Measuring Student Engagement. Educators believe that student engagement in the classroom is crucial to learning and that it can increase achievement and enrollment in challenging courses while decreasing dropout rates. Wang found that engagement varied among different groups of students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

Teaching Writing in Small Groups A Teacher's Guide to Reading Conferences. 2023), TEACHING WRITING IN SMALL GROUPS (March 2021), A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO READING CONFERENCES (2019), and UNDERSTANDING TEXTS AND READERS (2018). Kids move in and out of groups, and they change goals. Her newest books are THE READING STRATEGIES BOOK 2.0

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Once you see students engaged and learning through play, it clicks and the question goes from how to how do we add more?” Track your play: Get your student(s) involved to see how much progress you’re making with a Color-By-Number template and “Learning in Progress” poster. ©2023 The LEGO Group. for LEGO Education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

Back in high school, he first organized his fellow students to petition for a permanent student board seat on San Diego’s school board, and was then elected to the position in 2019, in a wave of student activism that around the same time pushed the district to pass an ambitious climate action plan. We have a responsibility.”

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

In most classrooms today, students are seen working together in small groups, perhaps in learning stations in the classroom, and taking a more active role in learning. After researching student engagement and motivation, mostly because I was having some challenges in my classroom two years ago, I decided to try new ideas.

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Waterford

JANUARY 19, 2021

Your students may have some common questions about Black History Month, especially in light of recent social justice movements. In 1926, the group “Study of African American Life and History” sponsored a week in February (chosen because Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays were that week) for a celebration. Ruby Bridges.

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Neo LMS

JULY 19, 2022

But technology can be an incredibly useful educational tool for students of all ages, even young elementary-level learners. Students shouldn’t spend their entire day interacting with technology. Read more: 7 Digital tools for student engagement across all grade levels. Tips for parents with at-home learners.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 11, 2024

He served on the Working Group for President Obama's Advisory Council on Financial Capability. Takeaways: You will learn about the importance of active learning over passive studying methods, and how helping students engage directly with the material can significantly improve retention and understanding.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

With interactive whiteboards, students and teachers manipulate content directly on the surface of the screen. Student engagement increased and classroom collaboration was set to skyrocket. You’ll find them in elementary classrooms and university lecture halls. “I just stand back, and the kids are engaged.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

This is especially evident in the elementary grades, which on average only teach social studies 30 minutes a week. This number decreases further in schools whose students struggle to meet educational benchmarks, with teachers believing their time is better spent focusing on math, science and reading—in other words, the “testable” subjects.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Nick Baskwill works with hundreds of elementary, middle, and high schools across Nova Scotia to drive technology integration and the adoption of innovative tools for tech and computer science education. This may include group onboardings, webinars, PD sessions, lesson plans, and prebuilt examples. Nominee : Nick Baskwill.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Let’s teach our students to steer through the online ocean of data to be both effective researchers and responsible digital citizens. These positive learning outcomes make esports popular in secondary grades, with both students and educators advocating for the addition and growth of scholastic esports in their middle and high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Salas, who attends Roosevelt Elementary School in San Leandro, California, is not alone in feeling the effects of heat on her schoolyard. Across the country, climbing temperatures have led schools to cancel classes and outdoor activities to protect students from the harmful effects of the heat. “We We can learn from a textbook.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Monica loves getting students connected on a global scale and loves to use digital tools like Lumio to create interactive lessons to engage her students. Currently, Monica serves four elementary schools in her district. Boost your student engagement on any devices wherever learning needs to happen.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Students in four groups roll dice to “capture” chemical elements to form stars. Fath says she and her team did upward of 10 prototypes of Outbreak and every version was tested with groups of 20 students in after-school play sessions. We changed the game so that each group could be run by an expert player.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Wheeler: One reason we chose MidSchoolMath is that the middle grades represent the critical time in a student’s academic career. We thought about elementary, middle and high school. This time, we chose something different for the middle grades because middle school students are kind of a different band of learners.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2019

These features are intended as scaffolds, bolstering strengths and mitigating challenges that students may face based on the key learner factors underlying reading success. I use these (product) features to differentiate learning for students. My class is a diverse group with a reading level range of Grade 3 to 8.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2022

They analyzed 53 elementary school teachers who had been randomly assigned to classrooms in their schools located in four different districts along the East Coast. Focusing on math instruction, the researchers compared students’ math scores with surveys that the fourth and fifth-grade students had filled out as part of an experiment.

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