Implementing High-Quality Instructional Materials
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MARCH 14, 2022
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Digital Promise
JULY 13, 2021
For example, a product that disseminates instructional materials may be considered successful based on usage data, whereas a product focused on learning interventions or direct instruction may require assessment data evidence to determine success.
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Where Are Quality Instructional Materials for English Language Learners?
MindShift
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Usually that means creating PowerPoint presentations full of pictures and “just kind of pulling from here and there,” he said — the Internet, a third grade textbook or a preschool homeschool curriculum from Sam’s Club, for example. But advocates are worried schools might not be able to meet these benchmarks without proper materials.
Teaching Assistants that Actually Assist Instructors with Teaching
Iterating Toward Openness
JULY 13, 2023
” question about the way generative AI might change the ways that learners interact with instructional materials like textbooks. This week I’d like to ask another.
Does Ownership of Instructional Materials Matter?
Doug Levin
JUNE 17, 2015
. – I want to focus instead on one aspect of how we are shifting from print to digital: the procurement decision schools make about whether to license digital instructional materials or purchase them outright, because I think ownership of instructional materials matters.**. Image credits. Image credits.
OPINION: School district leaders must make early education a priority, so children enter school prepared
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 8, 2023
Louisiana, for example, used their dollars to serve an additional 16,000 children from birth to age three. If there is an influx of English language learners, for example, they are prepared to quickly open more classrooms to serve these children and their families. But the time to use those dollars is quickly running out.
Generative Textbooks
Iterating Toward Openness
JULY 5, 2023
For example, my son who is studying cybersecurity recently told me prompted ChatGPT along these lines: ‘You are the hiring manager for a cybersecurity position at a large company. Then do the same with every colorful little box containing an example, case study, etc. Conduct a mock interview with me, asking me ten conceptual questions.
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Active Learning Strategies for Students
eSchool News
APRIL 5, 2024
Flipped Classroom: In a flipped classroom model, students review instructional materials independently outside of class, such as watching videos or reading texts, and then engage in active learning activities, discussions, or projects during class time. What are some examples of active learning strategies?
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A Very Useful Guide to Virtual Classroom Collaboration
The CoolCatTeacher
NOVEMBER 18, 2023
Collaborate with faculty to support them in an instructional design capacity, inspiring and helping them implement engaging curricular units around instructional technology and innovation. Develop training and instructional materials for faculty to enhance their fluency with available technologies and software.
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Learning enters the metaverse with “Mission: Mars” Roblox experience
eSchool News
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Mission: Mars is a great example of putting the core learning objective, building and iterating for specific mechanical tasks and conditions, at the center of fun, rich experience design.”
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Vet What You Buy
A Principal's Reflections
DECEMBER 1, 2019
Below you will see one of many examples that fall into the category of a resource that is not pedagogically sound. There are no such categories in the example above, just the arbitrary awarding of points with no succinct rhyme or reasons. For example, what are the success criteria that justify the score?
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ThinkCERCA Raises $10.1 Million to Build Critical Thinkers, Readers and Writers
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
This framework informs how ThinkCERCA designs its literacy instructional materials and lessons. Teachers can choose a lesson in the program, which guides students through a multi-step process to analyze the reading materials and write a response essay. For example, how do you create a claim and counterclaim?)
Using open educational resources to empower differentiated instruction
Hapara
JUNE 16, 2022
para built itself upon a robust pedagogical foundation that is designed to support differentiated instruction. Differentiation is the adjustment of teaching methodologies, instructional materials, the classroom environment, means of assessment, and content to match the interests and needs of learners to achieve the targeted learning outcomes.
The science of reading, beyond phonics
eSchool News
DECEMBER 28, 2023
Instructional material for student reading is often very didactic. Its purpose is to be used by a teacher to give examples of different elements of writing, and it’s usually highly patterned to make those elements, like a main idea or a conclusion, relatively easy to pick out.
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The power of AI in education: Enhancing instructional coaching for student success
eSchool News
DECEMBER 15, 2023
A prime example was the New York City School System, which had prohibited students and teachers from accessing ChatGPT’s website on school computers. It can also process a wide range of data, including instructional materials, student work, and assessment results, to offer evidence-based insights.
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What are Active Learning Teaching Strategies?
eSchool News
APRIL 5, 2024
Active learning examples in the classroom encompass myriad techniques that promote student engagement, critical thinking, and deeper understanding. Types of active learning methods encompass a variety of engaging instructional approaches designed to promote student participation and deeper understanding.
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Now Is the Time to Redefine Learning — Not Recreate Traditional School Online
Edsurge
DECEMBER 16, 2020
For example, a digital worksheet is still a worksheet in the same way a traditional six-period bell schedule done via Zoom or Google Meets is still a basic substitution of the physical classroom setting for the virtual one. Most of the examples that appear in the section below fall into this category.
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Museum of Science, Boston enters metaverse with “Mission: Mars” Roblox experience
eSchool News
JANUARY 31, 2023
Mission: Mars is a great example of putting the core learning objective, building and iterating for specific mechanical tasks and conditions, at the center of fun, rich experience design.”
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Racism is a subtle, silent enemy of STEM classrooms
eSchool News
JANUARY 19, 2023
Take, for example, the recent California Science Test (CAST) scores released in October 2022 that showed 29.45 For example, known as the Black Escalation, teachers have been shown to severely discipline Black students versus white students. percent of students met or exceeded the Science standards.
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An OER curriculum brings my students’ lives into our classroom
eSchool News
DECEMBER 23, 2022
All of this happened because I stepped back—and because the instructional materials gave my students opportunities to find meaningful connections to their lives. In addition, because the OpenSciEd curriculum is fully editable, I’ve been able to make changes to meet my students where they are.
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Help Build an OpenSciEd Research Agenda
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 2, 2020
As such, OpenSciEd has several unique benefits relative to typical, commercially produced instructional materials. For example, because open materials can be readily modified, research studies can compare adapted lessons to their off-the-shelf counterparts to examine the effectiveness of the adaptations.
Realizing Success in the Adult Basic Education Market
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
When combined with other sources, one estimate places this figure as high as $10 billion annually, with $200 million of that spent on digital instructional materials. Highly fragmented, these organizations often serve small numbers of learners and have very limited budgets for instructional materials.
OER / ZTC Advocates Have an AI Problem
Iterating Toward Openness
MARCH 21, 2023
For example, politicians understand costs much better than they understand learning, which makes policy work and other political advocacy around eliminating textbook costs far easier than advocating for ways that “open” (whatever that word means) might be leveraged to improve student outcomes.
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When Universal Design Promotes Inclusion of All Students
Edsurge
MAY 31, 2023
UDL is based on the principle that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and learning and that instructional materials and methods should be flexible and adaptable to the needs of all students. For example, one common barrier for students at Compass High School is the inability to read grade-level text.
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Teaching Tools and Techniques
eSchool News
APRIL 5, 2024
What are some examples of teaching techniques? Traditional K-12 teaching tools examples encompass a rich array of resources and methodologies that have long been foundational in educational settings. These assessments provide valuable feedback to educators, informing instructional decisions and guiding future lesson planning.
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PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 11, 2024
It cost about $400 per student in instructional materials and teacher training. In this experiment, for example, students learned about animal survival in first grade and dinosaur extinction in second grade. It wasn’t a huge boost to reading achievement, but it was significant and long-lasting.
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In 2024, education will build systems that champion the science of reading
eSchool News
DECEMBER 15, 2023
I predict that in the coming year, partnerships like the one between The Reading League and NCEL will begin to help heal divisiveness and welcome new, diverse voices into the conversation on evidence-aligned literacy instruction. They did it through a comprehensive overhaul of their approach to literacy learning.
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Humans, Generative AI, and Learning from Copyrighted Materials
Iterating Toward Openness
AUGUST 2, 2023
I’ve been thinking about AI training data a lot recently, partly because of the fascinating intersections and overlaps between (1) curating and annotating training data for AI models and (2) designing instructional materials for human learners. I hope not, because I don’t do that.)
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Savvas Announces its enVision® Mathematics Common Core Grades 6-8 © 2021 Earns Highest Rating from EdReports
eSchool News
DECEMBER 9, 2020
EdReports — the highly regarded, independent nonprofit designed to improve education by providing reviews of K-12 instructional materials — applies evidence-based analysis in evaluating math and ELA programs. Teaching with high-quality instructional materials has a direct impact on student learning outcomes.
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Do Chatbot Tutors Work Better When They're Upbeat — and Female?
Edsurge
APRIL 27, 2023
For example, Sarin grew up with parents who spoke a mix of Hindi and English, which AI models largely trained on standard American English may have trouble emulating. But he hopes that such tools are used like textbooks or instructional materials, not as replacements for human instructors. “If
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Teacher PD: Purposeful Tinkering and Application
User Generated Education
FEBRUARY 26, 2017
Instead, more professional learning time should be spent helping teachers plan, develop materials, and practice delivering the strategies with colleague support. ( [link] ). Teachers need to be offered lots of instructional suggestions and resources so they can tailor their PD learning to their own teaching environments.
What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?
Edsurge
MAY 24, 2023
But district leaders, administrators and teachers have incredible demands placed on them, which were exacerbated by the pandemic and while there are high-quality materials available, they’re not compiled. We are looking to lift up positive examples of districts, schools and teachers who are doing a great job,” Pai says.
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Savvas Learning Company Introduces the Newly Updated enVision Mathematics 2024
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Flexible Teacher Support: Embedded teacher support and meaningful professional development are built right into the program, while new, ready-made instructional materials for each lesson make teacher preparation time quick and easy.
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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service
Doug Levin
JULY 7, 2016
Four, we must ensure that all instructional materials – no matter their form or medium – remain available for public inspection and review. While this is an imperfect process and often treated as a necessary evil, there are myriad examples where this public review process has helped to identify and remediate errors of fact and bias.
Council of the Great City Schools Presents Norfolk High School Graduate Ayana Askew with $10,000 Dr. Michael Casserly Legacy Scholarship for Educational Courage and Justice
eSchool News
JUNE 17, 2022
She is extremely deserving of this scholarship and is a prime example of the wonderful graduates our nation’s urban public schools produce. Founded in 1969, Curriculum Associates, LLC designs research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools. See CGCS.org.
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David, Goliath, and the Future of the U.S. K-12 OER Movement
Doug Levin
FEBRUARY 21, 2016
Buoyed by examples of new and significant commitments to OER by companies large and small, governments of all levels, and schools, it is easy to see that the future of instructional materials over the next decade will look very different than it has over the last decade. This is good news and cause for celebration.
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Linguistically Responsive Teachers
Digital Promise
MAY 21, 2018
This involves identifying vocabulary that students have to understand in order to access curriculum content; understanding the semantic and syntactic complexity of the language used in written instructional materials; and knowing the ways in which students are expected to use language to complete each learning task.
Remote Learning Begs the Question: Must Lectures Be So Long?
Edsurge
MAY 25, 2020
For example, a 50-minute period might begin with a “Do Now,” a brief exercise that introduces to students what they will be learning, followed by short segments that include a mix of lecture, group activity, discussion, or individual work. Get creative with the format of your live or recorded lecturing.
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OPINION: Struggling readers need standards and structure based on the science of reading
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Furthermore, states that have adopted legislation around science-aligned approaches to reading instruction have seen significant improvements in reading achievement. Take Mississippi, for example — a state that had been near or at the bottom of most state education rankings for years.
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For two states, the digital transition requires an overhaul of the process
edWeb.net
FEBRUARY 17, 2018
Refocusing classrooms around up-and-coming digital materials requires more than just adding a new tech-based product or two as many processes for reviewing and purchasing instructional materials are still built around print textbooks. Pinellas County, for example, has a blended model working towards 1-to-1.
Racism is a subtle, silent enemy of STEM classrooms
eSchool News
JANUARY 19, 2023
Take, for example, the recent California Science Test (CAST) scores released in October 2022 that showed 29.45 For example, known as the Black Escalation, teachers have been shown to severely discipline Black students versus white students. percent of students met or exceeded the Science standards.
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Picture this! 4 steps to understanding copyright issues
eSchool News
MAY 31, 2018
Teachers include images on instructional materials, we encourage students to use images as part of their work, and administrators publish information for the community that can include images. We all use images in the content we create.
Open Education – Where do I begin?
Tom Murray
JUNE 3, 2016
With support from ED, state leaders, and new platforms for curation and discovery, there has never been a more exciting time to rethink traditional, static instructional materials. As with any instructional materials, quality is key.
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Is 2023 the year of the microschool?
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The concept of microschooling gained traction throughout the 2010s, then saw a huge uptick in both interest and new examples during the pandemic. Some of the better-known examples of microschools include national name brands like the Acton Academy schools, Wildflower Schools , Prenda microschools and the Khan Lab School. Microschools.
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