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10 Essential Online Learning Best Practices – Free Webinar

The CoolCatTeacher

I also know that that I too have a lot to learn, even though I’ve been teaching online since 2006 and have collaborated globally for years. So, last week I called one of my major sponsors – a distance learning professional development company – Advancement Courses.

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5 Ways Online Learning Can Open Doors For All Students

EdNews Daily

I had the chance to chat with Dr. Samuel Bennett from SEU to learn more about his experience working with students who are working on their Master’s in Elementary Education through their online program. My police partner saw how I interacted with children and encouraged me to seek an elementary teaching position.

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Much ado about NAEP

Dangerously Irrelevant

If middle and elementary school students are forced to repeat grades because they fall short of a standard anchored to NAEP proficient, vast numbers will repeat grades. Designating NAEP proficient as the achievement benchmark for accountability systems is certainly not cautious use. emphasis added].

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To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides 

The Hechinger Report

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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PROOF POINTS: 114 studies on flipped classrooms show small payoff for big effort

The Hechinger Report

classrooms, from city college campuses to suburban elementary schools. Now there is a significant body of research to answer the question of whether students learn more. Yet other studies have concluded that students were harmed and learned less in a flipped classroom. Over the past decade, flipping has spread across U.S.

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Preparing Teaching Candidates for Blended and Online Environments

Fractus Learning

At Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina, faculty in the School of Education have developed pathways to help teaching candidates gain experience exploring, evaluating, and applying methods for online and blended instruction. These courses include blended methods and technologies for blended learning environments.

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Live Interview Thursday Sept. 29th on "iPads in the Classroom--a Success Story"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

As State Director of Educational Technology and Data Coordination at the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), Bruce Umpstead is responsible for implementing Michigan''s online learning graduation requirement and the State Educational Technology Plan. Her first teaching job was a kindergarten position in Phoenix, Arizona.

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