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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Online Assessment. Assessment must respect learners, provide actionable feedback, and motivate. Sometimes this feels like a Herculean task, but there are best practices to help all of us get better at assessment. When you take time to improve assessment, students can improve their learning.

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Strengthening Schools’ Writing Instruction Through the Use of Data

edWeb.net

Degner emphasized that data about writing should not just be used to inform teachers’ interactions with students, it should also play an important role in the ongoing professional learning and evaluation of instruction across grades and schools. He also works with edWeb.net to write articles on their professional learning edWebinars.

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