A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Image credit: [link] The other day I had the unique challenge and opportunity of working with elementary teachers in the Spotswood School District. The goal was simple, to introduce and train them on some age appropriate technology tools while identifying natural pedagogical fits.

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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. Group breakouts.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

This story also appeared in The 19th Yuli Paez-Naranjo, a Working on Womanhood counselor, sported a purple WOW T-shirt as she led the group in a discussion about how values can inform decisions. “Do Some 38 percent of girls in this group showed signs of PTSD, double the rate of service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

I’ve used them successfully in my teaching training classes but never with elementary learners. I introduced the Socratic Seminar to my two groups gifted elementary learners, ages 7 to 12, through the following slidedeck and by using Dr. Seuss’s Sneetches. Sneetches: A Socratic Seminar.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Matthews, a former tutoring aide who had just come to Rehobeth Elementary School, was used to working with students who needed some extra help with reading. Third-grade teacher Scotty Matthews works with a student at Rehobeth Elementary in Houston County, Alabama, on Monday, Oct. This story also appeared in AL.com.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. The reasons were varied (teacher training, infrastructure, and professional support to name a few), but one of the most prominent was money. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them.

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Digital Promise

MAY 9, 2023

Last year, I worked with my team at The Learning Accelerator and colleagues at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop an Edtech Systems Guide that outlines best practices for equity-driven edtech selection, implementation, and evaluation. hands-on basic training, on-demand how-to videos, etc.)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

Experts say teachers need weeks — if not months — of training to develop and implement an online class. The rest of the day was devoted to reviewing the academy’s virtual learning plan and training teachers for the move from classroom to screen. Families who needed devices for their kids also picked up Chromebooks. We made it work.”.

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MARCH 27, 2024

One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University. During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

Maggie is a fifth grader at Roosevelt Elementary School in Park Ridge, Illinois and in Fall 2017, she was trained to become a “TechXpert” at her school so she could coach fellow students daily during the tech lab at the LRC. We planned a one day summer training for them and the TechXpert program officially launched.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Eric has been in education for 30 years, and currently serves as a Technology Integration Specialist for SPARCC in Canton, Ohio where he oversees G Suite for Education implementation, training, and support, as well as other technology integration initiatives. He is a co-leader of the Ohio Google Educator Group at [link].

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics. Pay raises for all teachers, or subsidies to train future teachers, may be good ideas. Fixing the problem is not easy because those shortages aren’t universal.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Some of the courses available are broken into age groups and include options such as CoderZ Adventure for ages 6 through 10, Robotics 101 which is a self-paced program for students ages 11 through 14, and Python gym for students ages 15 and older. Tynker is a coding platform that offers activities for different age groups. Kubo coding.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2023

Research indicates that aspiring educators who get to practice teaching earlier in their training and more often are more likely to be effective, Sakimura says. Later, they may do one-on-one or small group tutoring. It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

For example, students could discuss the implications of gender bias in a natural language processing system, such as Gmail Smart Compose, or of higher error rates for marginalized groups in the facial and speech recognition programs in home assistants and smart speakers. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 3, 2024

Alternatively, you could provide some examples of keep, start, stop at various levels of quality, kindness, or specificity and ask students to work in small groups to analyze and rank them in order of effectiveness. You can either present a model, thinking out loud as you provide feedback to someone in your life (e.g.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It is particularly popular in elementary schools, often filled with fun and educational activities centered around the number 100. Divide the class into groups so the project can be completed in one class period. The 100th day of school is a special milestone celebrated in many educational institutions around the world.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

But it was impossible to tell whether the Core Knowledge curriculum itself made the difference or if the boost to reading scores could be attributed to other things that these charter schools were doing, such as hiring great teachers and training them well. It cost about $400 per student in instructional materials and teacher training.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Hannah Hughes is playing a game with a group of second graders at Johnson Elementary School in Kingsport, Tennessee, who are still working on their reading skills. Hughes shows the group the word “bright,” but then takes a card and covers up the letter “b.” . Training teachers before they head into classrooms.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2018

Over the past three years, a group of elementary school students from Southeast Washington, D.C., One group of students conducted interviews on the National Mall asking people to share their hopes for local youth and filmed a documentary on their findings with guidance from a team of teachers, school leaders and creative professionals.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012. It does now.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Meanwhile, those teachers often felt they lacked adequate tech training. The teachers talked about having to train themselves in the tech,” says Jeanne Carey Ingle, an assistant professor of elementary and early childhood education at Bridgewater State who also worked on the survey research.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. The onsite training is expensive.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. The reasons were varied (teacher training, infrastructure, and professional support to name a few), but one of the most prominent was money. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

As I always do, I am exploring its use in my classes (elementary-level gifted education). General Ideas for Using ChatGPT in Education ChatGPT, according to ChatGPT, is a variant of the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) language model that has been specifically designed for generating human-like text for chatbot applications.

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TeacherCast

MAY 19, 2022

ORIGO Education is a leading provider of elementary math solutions from Pre-K to Grade 6 committed to helping make learning mathematics meaningful, enjoyable, and accessible to all students and their teachers. ORIGO supports school districts by providing a training for teachers in implementing Stepping Stones 2.0. curriculum.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Tabernacle Township School District’s 665 elementary and middle school students are one-to-one with devices. She shares that while most learners were hybrid, one group was fully virtual last year. All this has contributed to the biggest gaps I’ve ever seen between skill groups.”. It was very frustrating.”. However, H?para’s

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district. Teachers trickle in as I set out muffins and candy at each table.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Dreyfus said targeted instruction for small groups of students has years of research and evidence to back it up as an effective way for teachers to teach and students to learn. Piedmont Elementary School in Piedmont, Alabama. We’re able to take those small groups and adjust all our instruction based on the data that we look at.”

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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. They built large 10-sided shapes out of colorful blocks.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

she asked the group. She’s been working with this group and 20 other preschool teachers and directors in the area since the beginning of the school year. Everybody will share the play dough,” she said to a group of students. The Kidango-Ryan Center is located in an elementary school in San Jose. But I can’t.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

The problem begins in elementary school, with mathematical content that does not enable children to see mathematical connections and coherence. Another factor is the dearth of opportunities for elementary school math teachers to deepen their understanding of the content they teach. Take fractions as an example.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Blue dots represent the 75 schools that were eligible for the right-to-read settlement program of training and funds. The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Throughout her educational journey, she has spanned various roles, including teaching elementary math, instructing web communications for career and technical education students and serving as an edtech consultant and speaker. AR sparks curiosity in students so that they are asking, “How does that work?”

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As a result, the district’s 1,900 elementary students will return later this summer to classrooms outfitted with multiple touch screens, motion-tracking cameras, and microphones — part of an uncommon plan to embrace hybrid learning. Out on Capitol Hill, she warned, the feds are “itching to take this money away from us.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

hours of auditory instruction in small group or tutoring sessions, but continued to make progress if visual displays of the letters were combined with the sounds. Teacher training programs in the science of reading emphasized the importance of phonemic awareness. He says severely dyslexic students need more auditory training.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. She’s also a teacher-in-training. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. MORGAN CITY, La. The “apprenticeship degree” model costs students $75 dollars a month.

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