The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

It will also help you with both formative and summative assessments, and it will enter your grades into any electronic grade book directly from GradeCam. Simple Assessments of All Kinds. First, let’s look at the ways you can use GradeCam for assessments. Setting up assessments is fast and easy. Make assessment simple.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Practices such as BYOD, 1:1, blended learning, personalized learning, classroom and school redesign, branding, makerspaces, professional learning, etc. One of these tools is the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA). Additional data is collected and archived in the PLP during classroom observations.

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Assessment Future Ready Blended Learning Professional Learning 345

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 4, 2024

It also positions the teacher to do the lion’s share of the work and thinking in the classroom. Novak and I highlight the myriad benefits of writing across the curriculum and want to support all teachers in moving writing into the classroom, where it can deepen learning and help students develop as expert learners.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2020

Will you collect formative assessment data to assess prior knowledge or check for understanding? Below is a document that details each building block, the objective of that activity, and the technology tools teachers can use to engage students in that type of learning activity online. OnlineBuildingBlocks. PlanOnlineLesson.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Teachers all over the country are being asked to teach “concurrent classrooms” in which some students attend class in person and others attend virtually. The teacher in a concurrent classroom attempts to meet the needs of the students in class and online simultaneously. Differentiate learning (e.g.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA), often equated with Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM), is any form of assessment that measures progress toward fulfillment of a stated curriculum. Once these are in place, you devise the assessments — formative and summative — that will provide the evidence of achievement.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 24, 2020

This activity can happen in the classroom or online. Teachers can present students with an unfamiliar problem or prompt to pique their interest, ask them to generate questions about a topic, or assess their prior knowledge. Google Forms Kahoot!

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Learning Video Strategy Google 546

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

The ability to think about what we are learning, how we are learning, what we want to learn in the future are important skills that must be explicitly taught in classrooms. Teaching metacognitive skills that encourage students to become more aware of their learning can help them shift from passive to active participants in the classroom.

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Strategy Assessment Classroom Training 420

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This summer I read Starr Stackstein’s book Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School. We shared this “Ongoing Assessment” document with each student via Google Classroom. My students had a real voice in their assessments. Instead, assessment became a conversation.

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Assessment Strategy Google Meeting 420

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2019

The flipped classroom m odel shifts the transfer of information online and moves practice and application into the classroom. The flipped classroom was one of the first blended learning models to become popular. Pair the video in an online discussion using Google Classroom or Schoology. Cornell notes with a summary).

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 24, 2020

What does it look like to integrate computational thinking and computer science in the classroom? Digital Promise has been working with districts and educators from across the United States to integrate computational thinking (CT) and computer science (CS) into K-12 classrooms. What are “Look for” documents?

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Engagement Active involvement in learning that is relevant, valuable, and interesting Representation Access to multiple ways to experience or receive information Action and Expression Set goals, monitor and track progress toward goals, engage in metacognitive skill-building through self-assessment and demonstrate knowledge in a variety of ways.

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Blended Learning UDL Learning Assessment 546

ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The advent of interactive large-format displays further expands the options for achieving the documented benefits delivered by this transformative classroom technology. Classroom display board technology is a powerful thing. Introduced in 1801, the chalkboard transformed the classroom. Interactive Whiteboards: A History.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

Twitter as a classroom resource, you ask? I began using Twitter in my classroom soon after its introduction in 2006. The discussion was based on the research of primary and secondary documents and was quite creative. Classroom Use. The social media platform became a resource when I was running on empty.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams for Education: Find the Blended Learning Tool that Works Best. There are a number of digital classroom offerings available for K–12 teachers to use. However, none are more widely adopted than Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 02/13/2019 - 14:12.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 1, 2019

Nothing can replace this formal assessment, but it’s helpful to teach students to track their words per minute between these reading fluency assessments. In a coaching session with a second-grade teacher, I suggested we try using Voice Typing in Google Documents to help students track how many words they read in a minute.

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Google Assessment Elementary Data 420

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

Teachers are freed from orchestrating a lesson and able to conference with learners about their progress, provide feedback on work in progress, or conduct side-by-side assessments. As students prepare for an assessment, create a board with activities that target key vocabulary, concepts, and skills. Designing Choice Boards.

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Blended Learning Strategy Assessment Examples 546

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2023

which specifically mentions ‘use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills)’ keyboarding is required to take Common Core Standards assessments in the Spring. Some schools require assessments of student learning in technology. The myth is that students will teach themselves when they need it.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 18, 2021

On a typical day when I visit classrooms with principals in my partner districts across the country, both the building and district leaders receive a 1000-to-5000-word document laden with practical feedback. I did not see the sound instruction that I would see in the classrooms if we were not virtual.

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Assessment Outcomes Examples Elementary 545

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

This is a sentiment I’ve repeatedly heard this year as I work with educators who are teaching online, on hybrid schedules, or juggling the demands of the concurrent classroom. Build in Formative Assessment Collecting informal data throughout a playlist provides insight into what students know or can do. Not necessarily.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, Jesse Lubinsky, a former classroom teacher and education evangelist for Adobe, shares 10 awesome free ways that teachers can use Adobe Express in their classrooms. – Vicki, your podcast host and friendly fellow classroom teacher.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Despite my best efforts, I couldn't visit classrooms as frequently as I would have liked, and the feedback I provided in written reports could have done more to enhance teaching and learning both inside and outside the classroom. When a teacher struggles with assessments, provide or co-create an example assessment.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Not only was I not in classrooms enough, but also the level of feedback provided through the lens of a narrative report did very little to improve teaching and learning both in and out of the classroom. Visit Classrooms Routinely This seems so easy yet is a constant struggle. They can also be used to validate good practice.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 3, 2021

Beyond the adjustments related to instruction, it was challenging to get into a workflow and figure out how to best provide for students at home and in the classroom space. As teachers, we need to be able to check in with students to see how they are doing, first and foremost, and to assess their progress in our class.

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How To Assessment Video Social Media 470

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

As teachers transitioned back into classrooms, many abandoned video in favor of live instruction. Even though the flipped classroom encouraged teachers to record lectures and mini-lessons to send home with students for homework, video can be woven into the class period to shift control from teacher to learner.

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Strategy UDL Blended Learning Video 545

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

color-coding, setting reminders, embedding links to planning documents) made it exponentially more effective as a planning and organizational tool. Provides a platform where you can organize calendar events and attach links or documents, so everything you need for your lessons is in one place. Please relax and enjoy your summer.

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Google Video Training Tools 545

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2017

In January I wrote a blog post titled “ New Year’s Resolution: I’m Moving ALL Assessment into the Classroom.” As my students wrote, I jumped into their Google Documents in suggesting mode and made edits. ” I’m here to update everyone. It’s been amazing!

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Blended Learning Assessment Course Google 420

Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2020

TIP: I encourage teachers to include the expectations for behavior and participation in the agenda or planning document that they share with students in advance of the conversation. . Just like in a classroom, students need a moment to process a question and formulate their responses. Ask students to assess their participation online.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2024

You can create professional presentations, posters, multi-page documents, marketing materials, social media graphics, and more using Canva’s more than 1 million photos, icons, and layouts, each with colors and fonts coordinated into attractive schema easily accessed by both beginners and reluctant designers. Click to view slideshow.

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Classroom Microsoft Digital Citizenship eBook 347

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

When I began my career in education, I believed the value I brought to the classroom was my subject area expertise cultivated as an English major at UCLA and my pedagogical expertise honed while working on my teaching credential and Masters in Education. I operated under that misguided assumption for years. During the Conference.

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Strategy Conference Course Blended Learning 531

Neo LMS

MARCH 15, 2022

For this to happen, teachers can opt for a mix of game-based learning tools, conducting a quick assessment or social and emotional learning (SE)L check-in, or asking students to create and share what they have learned in a way that meets their interests. It has been a favorite for five years in my classroom.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

And a growing number of teachers who began the year online are now shifting to the concurrent classroom where they are juggling the demands of teaching students both in class and online simultaneously. ” Then they can hyperlink the images to online resources or digital document with directions.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

? Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] While edtech tools are in most classrooms, not every educator understands how to use technology in meaningful ways. Read on to learn how to use technology in the classroom to truly engage students. Her role was to support educators in innovative practices.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2023

AI-powered quiz builders are revolutionizing modern classrooms, transforming traditional teaching methods into captivating, gamified learning adventures. Imagine a classroom where students are glued to their seats, laser-focused on interactive quiz games displayed on the smartboard.

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Tools Classroom Gamification Adaptive Learning 342

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2018

A major barrier to innovation in the classroom is teacher exhaustion. In a classroom where the student does the work, that same assignment could have a dramatically different outcome. Finally, they have to reflect on their learning and set goals for themselves in their ongoing assessment document or learning log.

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Blended Learning Learning Outcomes Strategy 420

Neo LMS

JUNE 13, 2019

In my previous post I explored the subtle, yet significant, difference between brute force computing and ANN (Artificial Neural Networks), and how that distinction is slowly producing what one would call “true” AI products in the classroom. Read more: 4 Ways AI will be a great teaching assistant.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter I have picked five of my essential classroom tools. For over 30 years, Advancement Courses has been a leader in professional development, providing expertly-crafted, classroom-applicable courses to thousands of teachers across the country.

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iPad Digital Citizenship iPhone Assessment 337