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Preparing Students for Online Assessments with Digital Literacy Skills

edWeb.net

Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma. How to Connect to Students and Understand Their Emotions (SEL).

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Digital Natives Still Need Help Navigating Online Assessments

Edsurge

I also like the TIME for Kids Digital Edition because it allows students to read passages, synthesize information and answer questions like they are expected to on the English language portion of the test. Move it online. Or, assuming you have enough computers in your classroom, try online writing exercises. Make it fun.

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Reimagining Student Supports in a Year of Distance Instruction

Digital Promise

Through a large-scale, multi-year, federal project focusing on early literacy, we were able to gather feedback from educators on how instruction has been going this school year. These strategies hold potential to inform visions of future schooling as the country recovers from the devastation of COVID-19. Reimagining Family Engagement.

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How Co-Teaching Helped Our New Teachers Support Students, In-Person and Online

Edsurge

As the program started, I couldn’t help but think how different her experience as a preservice teacher was from my own. Eighteen years ago, when I was a student-teacher, I started out by silently sitting in the back of an elementary-grade classroom, watching, observing and taking notes. I didn’t get much time to interact with students.

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PROOF POINTS: Three reports on student achievement during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

That’s because low-income students were less likely to attend in-person school, where diagnostic assessments were given, or take an online assessment at home. There’s also no information on the achievement of high school students, who are at risk of dropping out of the education system.

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Fighting Apathy, Neglect and Racism to Give Left-Behind Learners a Chance

Edsurge

We spent a lot of money on devices that we didn’t know how to use. My 16, 17 and 18-year old students were entering my class reading at an elementary level. Using USATestprep, an online assessment tool, I built diagnostics from scratch to shift the focus from what students didn’t know to what they did.

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