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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

In addition, you’ll explore strategies for proactively coping with trauma, including creating student-led support groups and peer counseling programs, getting students involved with community outreach programs, and partnering with local and national organizations focused on processing trauma. Online Assessment. Learn More.

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OPINION: How do you measure social and emotional learning?

The Hechinger Report

A recent, nationally representative survey revealed near-unanimous commitment to SEL among school principals. A similar survey of teachers from 2013 showed the same. Despite these potential benefits, SEL assessments should not be used as the only source of information to guide decisions about SEL programs and practices.

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Zap life into your feedback with technology

eSchool News

I use forms all the time to categorize information specific to feedback, a letter to a group of students or parents, etc. Here are some examples of how you might want to collect information, or give feedback: Online assessments (Google Forms now allows teachers to create and grade quizzes ). Surveying students or parents.

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

The Hechinger Report

For the same reasons that many low-income students struggled to learn remotely during the pandemic, it was also hard, if not impossible, for students to take an online assessment of their progress. All the estimates rely on some sort of test, but many low-income students didn’t take any tests in 2021. In 2016, U.S.

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20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom

Shake Up Learning

This is not a robust threaded discussion tool like I wish it was, but it can be handy for formative assessments and to check for understanding. Formative is a free online assessment tool that is very robust. Google forms is a survey and quiz tool that is very easy to use. FREE and integrates with Google Classroom!).

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4 Steps for Designing an Online Assessment for Flipped Classroom

Fractus Learning

Are you thinking about designing an online assessment for a Flipped classroom? First, consider whether the tool you are thinking about is the right tool for what you want to assess. Second, does this online assessment align with the rest of the course curriculum. Make a plan for evaluating the online assessment.

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Q&A: How Data Can Make You A Better Teacher

TeachThought - Learn better.

BI: One of the challenges that faculty and academic researchers have when studying “interventions” is in getting control versus experimental groups with limited outside variable interference. I survey my students and do short assessments about all applications.

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