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Battling pandemic reading woes through teacher support, training

The Hechinger Report

But Rehobeth says trained and experienced aides are key to recent success. And they’re expanding that expertise in developing a team of trained reading educators as they work on afterschool tutoring and community support. “If Credit: Alaina Deshazo for AL.com. Rehobeth is working on boosting both those aspects.

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Testimony in Favor of Texas SB 6 Instructional Materials Allotment

EdTechSandyK

Today I gave testimony in favor of the passage of Texas SB 6 , which institutes an Instructional Materials Allotment (IMA) in lieu of the textbook allotment and the former Technology Allotment. Everything I accessed was an instructional material with content relevant to my course of study.

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Teaching Assistants that Actually Assist Instructors with Teaching

Iterating Toward Openness

” question about the way generative AI might change the ways that learners interact with instructional materials like textbooks. The overwhelming majority of faculty have no training whatsoever in teaching and learning. Last week I asked a “What if?” This week I’d like to ask another.

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A Very Useful Guide to Virtual Classroom Collaboration

The CoolCatTeacher

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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Humans, Generative AI, and Learning from Copyrighted Materials

Iterating Toward Openness

The show notes for a recent episode begin, Stop me if you’ve heard this before: “GPT3 was trained on the entire Internet”. So it’s more accurate to say that GPT3 is trained on 0.0000000001% of the Internet. But the topic of AI training data also intersects with another topic that’s near and dear to my heart: copyright.

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Where Are Quality Instructional Materials for English Language Learners?

MindShift

And while the materials he uses match his students’ level of English proficiency, Brock said he sometimes feels like he’s insulting their intelligence. A nationwide survey of ELL educators by McKinsey & Company during the 2012-13 school year revealed 70 percent created their own materials. He isn’t alone.

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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

If you teach phonemic awareness, students will learn phonemic awareness,” which isn’t the goal, said Tiffany Peltier , a learning scientist who consults on literacy training for teachers at NWEA, an assessment company. “If Teacher training programs in the science of reading emphasized the importance of phonemic awareness.

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