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Teacher tricks: Grading & assessment

Neo LMS

In my first post in the series we explored how redefining what your data is for and how best to capture it can save many hours of tedium and time wastage. My second post examined a number of useful resources for how to create shortcuts in your lesson planning, without sacrificing quality or outcomes.

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Looking to Ditch Traditional Grades? Here’s How to Get Stakeholders On Board

Edsurge

So how to reap the benefits of competency-based education and make sure parents, teachers and other stakeholders are on board? We’re doing things that are a little radical but still grounded in academic standards. . So how to bridge the chasm? We check in with the schools in the process of figuring that out.

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Since Kentucky became the first state to adopt the Common Core in 2010, the achievement gap between students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers has widened slightly – despite sweeping expectations the more rigorous standards would help eliminate disparities in academic performance. Reframing expectations.

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eSpark–Self-paced Learning for Math and Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

Teachers monitor individual progress, see what each student completed on their last visit as well as when that was and how long it lasted, view students’ self-described moods, assess their pre- and post-quiz scores, and view their summative synthesis videos that provide evidence of their knowledge as they teach others what they just learned.

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Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair?

The Hechinger Report

In last year’s statewide Common Core-related PARCC test, just 24 percent of the students at Esteves’ school met grade-level expectations in reading and writing, a category called English language arts and literacy. In general, I think the common core approach is the right one,” wrote Shanahan in a blog.

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Closing gap for immigrant students under Common Core in Kentucky is a moving target

The Hechinger Report

But measuring how well schools are reaching English-learners is not easy, at least not from looking at the state’s accountability data. Strong language skills are key as part of the state’s Common Core standards. “There’s a front that says this is a good thing because it’s raising standards.

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How play is making a comeback in Kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

More recently, widespread changes in academic standards, like the adoption of the Common Core standards and concern over low reading scores , further increased the rigor of kindergarten to the point that it has been referred to as “ the new first grade.” They have to talk it out and take turns.”.