Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

When you build your own, you can differentiate instruction and support every student with the specific learning content they need. Because these resources are open to use, when you share an OER, other educators across the globe can access it and use it in their classrooms. Pre-assessments like this clouds pre-assessment.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 27, 2021

Drill and practice—pejoratively known as “Drill and Kill”—is a common learning method that emphasizes repetitiveness as a way to develop mastery of skills over a focus on deep, conceptual fluency. Beyond ‘Drill And Kill’: How IXL Can Help Students Learn More. contributed by Eric Bates , ixl.com.

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IXL Learning Learning Common Core Examples 104

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

When you start at a new school (or classroom, or teacher), it’s important to understand the part technology will take to improve educational experiences for your child. Here are fourteen question you can expect stakeholders to answer — in depth: Who teaches students to use class digital tools?

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Technology Digital Citizenship Common Core iPad 150

edWeb.net

JUNE 21, 2022

However, when English isn’t a student’s first language, the barrier to adaptation is especially challenging. These learners are more common in classrooms across the United States than many might think. Watch the Recording. Beginning in a new school, grade, or classroom can be a daunting prospect for any student.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

I think every child needs to have some kind of reading intervention. Michael Ballone, director of curriculum for the K-8 Marlboro Township Public Schools in New Jersey, has a clear idea of what most literacy instruction gets wrong: it only serves struggling readers. “I In 2010, New Jersey adopted Common Core standards.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Along the way, there is a heavy focus on writing. Finding time to do that work is even harder.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

With every moment of instructional time being even more precious when students return, teachers are looking for support to help smoothly pivot between remote and classroom teaching and address unfinished learning. This includes lesson plans, instructional tools, and readiness assessments specifically geared for distance learning.

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Learning Assessment Pearson Student Engagement 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A teacher is reading aloud with her audience enraptured and enthralled, waiting to hear what will happen next. Devoted readers are scattered about the room, getting lost in their books as they travel to other worlds, experience life from multiple perspectives and dig into their passions. When I was a kid I loved Beverly Cleary’s books.

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Libraries Common Core Strategy Meeting 84

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Reading comprehension skills are slipping among fourth-graders, according to the Progress in International Reading Skills Literacy Study. American fourth-graders, on average, had worse reading skills than they did five years earlier, in 2011, with scores slipping seven points on a 1,000-point scale. Is the U.S.

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System Education Common Core Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

During their first few days in the classroom, they are bombarded with a variety of situations they had not anticipated, and are often caught off guard by the realities of teaching. When new teachers aren’t supported to rapidly develop skills and address the realities of the classroom, it’s their students who pay the price. Ellen Moir.

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Common Core Professional Learning Meeting Report 75

eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

Teaching preschool is especially fascinating as it’s full of misconceptions—even more so than the teaching profession itself. Many people incorrectly assume that preschool students are incapable of learning math, reading, and abstract thinking at such an early age. How can we nurture a love of learning?

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Blended Learning Common Core Groups Policies 52

Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

The best-flipped classroom tools can transform and remodel classroom teaching, allowing in-depth learning and personalized attention that can help learners improve their grades. Student engagement in answering questions or testing their knowledge with challenges helps teachers assess the student’s student progress.

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Flipped Classroom Software Tools Classroom 97

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

Today you will read and think about the passages ‘Rescue the Tin Woodman’ and ‘Arriving at Emerald City’ from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” read a PowerPoint slide projected in the Thompson School gym, where the group had gathered. The MCAS has long been considered one of the nation’s best tests at assessing student performance.

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Common Core Assessment Report Groups 40

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

Personalized learning - Anything from personal development/interests (hobbies, individual pursuits) all the way through to traditional coursework which includes courses offered online when it isn't offered in person at the student's campus. Are we leaving something out when we choose these dimensions? Start with the definition.

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Blended Learning Learning Personalized Learning Assessment 45

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

When They Read But Don’t Understand: The Leap From Decoding To Comprehension. How well are we doing in comprehension of text as a nation? I added the NAEP chart on 12th grade reading since my focus here is on older students, and the trend is so dismal]. by Grant Wiggins , Authentic Education.

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Strategy Trends Report Examples 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

When They Read But Don’t Understand: The Leap From Decoding To Comprehension. How well are we doing in comprehension of text as a nation? I added the NAEP chart on 12th grade reading since my focus here is on older students, and the trend is so dismal]. by Grant Wiggins , Authentic Education.

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Strategy Trends Report Examples 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

Selecting Text For Comprehension. In the previous literacy posts in this series I identified a few guiding questions that stem from the research: Do students understand the real point of academic reading? Am I attending to the fewest, most powerful comprehension strategies for academic literacy?

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Strategy Secondary Analysis Common Core 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

Selecting Text For Comprehension. In the previous literacy posts in this series I identified a few guiding questions that stem from the research: Do students understand the real point of academic reading? Am I attending to the fewest, most powerful comprehension strategies for academic literacy?

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Strategy Secondary Analysis Common Core 40

Saving Socrates

AUGUST 28, 2013

What Parents Need to Know About the Common Core and How They Can Help Their Children The Common Core is an attempt to nationalize the curriculum creating common core standards in grades K-12. What does this practically mean? This test will be conducted online. This learning curve will need to be addressed.

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Common Core Technology Digital Divide Assessment 40

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

The line supports up to 8th Generation Intel Core processors, up to 16GB of DDR4 memory, many storage options, and more. The line supports up to 8th Generation Intel Core processors, up to 16GB of DDR4 memory, many storage options, and more. Please join us in congratulating the following winners. Available with either 15.6-inch

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Robotics Chromebook Edmentum Mobility 41

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Grant always reminded teachers of the value of designing curriculum, assessment, and learning experiences “backwards,” with the end in mind. The idea is to plan backward from worthy goals—the transferable concepts, principles, processes, and questions that enable students to apply their learning in meaningful and authentic ways.

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Assessment Common Core Meeting Classroom 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Related: Closing gap for immigrant students under Common Core in Kentucky is a moving target. Their performance on English math, English reading, or English science tests is not always valid. They are learning (or teaching) a new language, a process that takes around 4 to 7 years based on a variety of factors.

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Policies Data Common Core Comparison 40

eSpark

JANUARY 18, 2016

Preschool teaching is especially fascinating as it’s full of misconceptions—even more so than the teaching profession itself. Many people incorrectly assume that preschool students are incapable of learning math, reading, and abstract thinking at such an early age. How can we nurture a love of learning?

Blended Learning 40

Blended Learning Common Core Groups Policies 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

But after only a few minutes of conversation, it’s abundantly clear that Kyra Donovan and Dr. Julie Miles share a passion for learning and a strong conviction that assessment is essential to creating the best educational outcomes for students of all abilities. Classroom Solutions - Assessment. Connected Teaching and Learning.

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Assessment Education Outcomes Data 199

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

But whether or not the school district gets the cash, it says it is going forward with an ambitious plan to add a requirement that, to get their diplomas, high schoolers must score a 21 on the ACT, complete a year of college or earn a technical certificate. KANSAS CITY, Kan. — They’re kind of nasty,” remarks one student. “I

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Common Core Report Groups Meeting 40

Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

Now all of these are exceptional reads. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead – Brene Brown. When people arrive at the Element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve at their highest levels. They are in no particular order. Inspiration.

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Maker Movement Social Media Handbook Strategy 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2015

‘Close reading’ entered the teacher’s lexicon with this Common Core literacy anchor standard: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

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Tools Common Core Android Adobe 150

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog. Few trends in K-12 ed tech are as hot–or as under-researched–as “Maker” education. Often, such work is guided by the notion that process is more important than results. But that’s changing fast.

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Maker Movement Case Study STEM Handbook 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2015

Reading is defined as “ the action or skill of absorbing written or printed matter silently or aloud.” ” Sounds dry, maybe even boring, but once a child learns to read, they get much more than an understanding of words, sentences, paragraphs, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. how to read a book.

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Common Core Android iPhone eBook 150

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The 14-year-old speeds ahead when asked to use them to complete assignments. The 14-year-old speeds ahead when asked to use them to complete assignments. He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. MESA, Ariz. But he doesn’t like it.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 125

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Yet, in a school district where more than half of 8-year-olds are reading below grade level and a third of high school students don’t graduate , there’s an urgency to demonstrate improved results. Ninth-graders at the Science Leadership Academy work on a group project in science class. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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Learning Assessment Report Groups 102

MindShift

APRIL 19, 2017

Great ideas and extraordinary teaching happen in public school classrooms all over the country, but these pockets of innovation often don’t get the attention they deserve. Changing the traditional approaches to teaching and learning that have been in place for decades within an existing school is extremely difficult work.

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Groups System Policies Classroom 76

MindShift

MAY 14, 2018

Yet, in a school district where more than half of 8-year-olds are reading below grade level and a third of high school students don’t graduate , there’s an urgency to demonstrate improved results. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. In this model, students embark on in-depth investigations relevant to their lives and their communities.

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Assessment Report Groups Analysis 59

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 8, 2015

So today and tomorrow we’re going to share two of his posts on literacy, starting with what it means to “close read.” What is close reading? What Close Reading Actually Means. Thus, what “close reading” really means in practice is disciplined re-reading of inherently complex and worthy texts.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 5, 2015

5 Common Misconceptions About Bloom’s Taxonomy. Admit it–you only read the list of the six levels of the Taxonomy, not the whole book that explains each level and the rationale behind the Taxonomy. 5 Common Misconceptions About Bloom’s Taxonomy. by Grant Wiggins , Authentic Education. This is false.

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Common Core Assessment Training Examples 40

MindShift

OCTOBER 18, 2018

A group of Grade 9 students in Texas who substantially outperformed their district on a statewide standardized test all had one surprising thing in common: they all were members of the school’s Dungeons & Dragons club. A coincidence? Otherwise, how does a fantasy role-playing game produce improved test scores?

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STEM Learning Handbook Examples 53

wwwatanabe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Those of us who are transitioning to Common Core standards know that text complexity will affect the rigor in our classrooms. This means we need to understand what text complexity is and how to address it right now, regardless of what grade/subject we teach. The Internet is a key resource for text complexity.

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