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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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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. UDL is an excellent framework that can be used in any classroom.

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Reimagining Student Supports in a Year of Distance Instruction

Digital Promise

From our conversations with kindergarten through third grade teachers, literacy coaches, and principals in 17 elementary schools across the country, we highlight below three ways schools are reimagining student supports during a year of distance instruction. Even though kids had iPads, parents were not sure [how to use them for class].

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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. Having online learners added new challenges.

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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. “But READ THE SERIES. Even before the pandemic, reading achievement was in a slump.

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K-12 Education in the Post-COVID Era

Kitaboo on EdTech

This has several implications: Schools and teachers can no longer rely on a print-only teaching strategy. Related Read : Learning in the Times of COVID-19 – How to Develop Your Online Learning Material. Some classes will get higher priority, such as the lower elementary grade, lab-based subjects. Things to think about.

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FOLLOW THE MONEY: FUNDING INNOVATION

techlearning

The proposed bond projects include $500,000 in improvements to elementary STEM facilities and $17 million for improvements to school technology. In making its transition to online assessment, Delaware used this strategy. More than $28 million of the total improvement costs will likely be covered by state funding.