Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

Recent National Assessment of Educational Progress reading scores dipped to the lowest theyve ever been, falling two points on average for fourth and eighth graders. All Radford students have the option to take University 101, a first-year seminar class that prepares them for the transition to college, both academically and socially.

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techieMusings

MAY 24, 2016

Our English Department uses Socratic seminars as an assessment tool. When the Socratic seminar is the culminating assessment, students are expected to prepare for the activity ahead of time as they would for a written test. Students sit in two concentric circles during a Socratic seminar.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. 5 Reasons to Try a Whole Novel Approach in Your Classroom. Enhanced Transcript. What’s next?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As you might know there are some amazing formative assessment tools on the web. Free Digital Formative Assessment Tools… Important Thoughts Before Implementing - Michael Gorman ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com ) . Not only can the formative assessment process be engaging, it can also be owned by students.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I have a SMART Board in my classroom. Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No, it sure isn’t.”. We need assessments that can facilitate that growth. .

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Neo LMS

JULY 22, 2021

Instead of attending face-to-face seminars, they can do this at their own pace and receive reminders to complete them on time. . In this way, they can be more motivated to learn than by sitting in a classroom to attend a lecture. . Offering different types of assessments. Sure, there will be a period of adjustment.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

A few weeks ago, I made a commitment to visit schools that are using social media, smartphones, texting, and other digital technologies, as a vital part of daily classroom instruction. There are plenty of schools that have very expensive artwork on their classroom walls (i.e. Smart Board). Job well done by this mathematics teacher!

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I have a SMART Board in my classroom. Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No, it sure isn’t.”. We need assessments that can facilitate that growth. .

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

Like many fellow founders in this space, I left the classroom to create solutions to the challenges that I faced as a teacher and tech director. The program is designed for our employees to build knowledge of what actually happens in classrooms, as well as an understanding of the deep tensions and issues with our educational system.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

million education-oriented Pre-K through High School lesson plans, curricula, videos, classroom activities, assessments, books, bulletin board ideas, classroom decorations, interactive notebooks, task cards, Common Core resources, and more. Seminar Overview. million teachers buying or selling over 2.7 copyrights.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

It has become increasingly possible to personalize learning–adapt resources and assessments to student skills and needs and differentiate lessons that are pushed out to individual students or small groups ( read: Shifting my Teacher Mindset with Micro-credentials ). Constructive Conversations – Assessing Student Conversations.

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techieMusings

MAY 24, 2016

Our English Department uses Socratic seminars as an assessment tool. When the Socratic seminar is the culminating assessment, students are expected to prepare for the activity ahead of time as they would for a written test. Students sit in two concentric circles during a Socratic seminar.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 15, 2019

Drop by our Booth F302 in the expo hall at any time during the event, where we will provide insights on how to effectively manage online classroom activities, answer all your questions and showcase NEO’s newest features. It is time to blend your classroom? How will this work for my classroom? To offer more personalized learning?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2017

Look at who has adopted UbD: the College Board, to guide the revision of its Advanced Placement (AP) subject matter courses and for the development of its courses AP Seminar and AP Research. Self-assessment. Self-assessment is fundamental to UbD. Use the SAMR Model to Spearhead Technology in Your Classroom.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 7, 2021

The title is self-explanatory enough: Let’s look at some ways for students to learn from one another in physical or digital classroom. This is a strategy I used a lot in my ELA middle and high school classrooms. Paideia Seminar. You can read more about the Paideia Seminar here. Socratic Seminar. Achievable.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 27, 2015

This month on the Global Search for Education by Cathy Rubin, we are reflecting on How do you balance preparation for high stakes assessments with teaching and learning in your classroom. Instead, go into the classroom each day with a single-minded focus on making a difference for kids or igniting a passion for your subject matter.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2017

And so I think really often about one of my colleagues who I caught with just starting out and he was a history teacher exactly like I was and he was one of those history teaches who could absolutely us stand in front of the classroom, talk about history and make it come alive. He was incredible at direct instruction and at lecturing.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new Khan World School pitches itself as a way for self-motivated students to break out of the traditional classroom. And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. There are currently 50 students, all ninth graders.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

I stepped out of the classroom in 2010 to work on education systems change at the state and national level, learning from creative public educators across the country. What if I could do more interdisciplinary work or give credit for learning that happens outside my classroom?

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

We have to rethink the full-length essay as the end-all, be-all for assessing student writing skills,” Miller said. We can assess their understanding of what they read and their ability to write through shorter bursts of writing. It’s intimidating.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms. Online Learning and Non-traditional Students.

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Linways Technologies

MAY 21, 2020

Why does it work so well and how to implement active learning in your classrooms. It makes each student feel valued and recognized in a classroom. Different methods for adopting active learning in the classroom. Flipped Classroom. Flipped Classroom is a widely used method for implementing the active learning process.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Hope Reed, former chair of Blythewood High School math department Math scores for Black 13-year-olds had dropped by 13 points between the 2019-20 school year and the 2022-23 school year, shows the latest data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often referred to as the nation’s report card.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

We try to introduce the idea of critical thinking in all of our classrooms. I use this to facilitate assessing whether my students truly “got it” when it comes to the perspective of peoples of the past. At the same time, we consistently recognize that there is an alternative narrative to Columbus Day. How could we not?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In math teacher Danielle Bosse’s classroom, three students take assessments (foreground) while their classmates learn and practice different math skills. These students, and a couple dozen others circulating through the classroom for three periods each day, make up Jaguar Academy (named for the district’s feline mascot).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

For leaders like Daniel-Hardy, the introduction of generative AI to the teaching-learning process “feels different,” even though they’ve seen multiple waves of disruptive technology circle in and out through classrooms. Educators may find their assignments and assessments become obsolete quickly,” he says.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2016

One method, called the Socratic seminar, challenges to students to formal discussions about a text based on open-ended questions. Arrange your classroom in a format that encourages discourse. Once the seminar begins, discipline yourself not to guide or facilitate the conversation. Reflection/assessment. The set up.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 7, 2024

When your students walk into the classroom, they agree to be active members of a PBL community. When students arrange to work with a community expert and then don’t follow through, they burn bridges, which negatively impacts the entire classroom community. Not all students are there. Provide opportunities for students to take the lead.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 4, 2018

They have done a tremendous amount of work in experimenting with various productivity strategies in their classrooms and creating systems and routines that work well for them and their students. The topic for our first productivity roundtable is streamlining the grading and assessment process.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I have a SMART Board in my classroom. Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No, it sure isn’t.”. We need assessments that can facilitate that growth.

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Educate AI Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Moreover, these concepts manifest differently at the student, teacher/classroom, and district/system levels, requiring a nuanced and multi-faceted approach. Teacher/Classroom Level: Safety means ensuring that AI tools do not reinforce harmful stereotypes or biases in curriculum materials, assessments, or classroom interactions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Over the last 12 years, Pedersen has completely transformed his classroom, making it a model for other educators in the region and winning accolades (including a 2016 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching). In that class, two students choose a peer-reviewed article and lead seminars every Friday.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

To do so, they need to have a proper assessment strategy in place. In the absence of a clear mapping between program outcomes and assessment tools, student achievement of program outcomes is inaccurate and unreliable. Conscious efforts need to be made to bring application skills or higher cognitive skills to the assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

There are many ways to design a coaching program, but the general idea is that a veteran educator observes a teacher in the classroom and then gives constructive feedback on issues ranging from managing student misbehavior to framing open-ended questions that push students to think harder.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

I know you and I have talked about using problem-based learning, thinking about prior learning assessments, not assuming that adults need to be taught everything from square one but that they bring interesting work and life experiences to the table. I think the second thing is, as you mentioned, we talked about prior learning assessment.

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Kathy Schrock

JULY 24, 2017

How can you lead your teachers or colleagues to promote inventiveness in the classroom? Invent Iowa, started in 1987, was created to help teachers promote the invention process in their classrooms as well as allow students to showcase their inventions at state and local conventions. How can I get investors?” “How

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

And can science unlock secrets of the learning process that can help teachers and professors be more effective in their classrooms? I have so many just even from my home university of Rice, because we have some great people doing wonderful things in the classroom. Just how do humans learn? It’s an iterative cycle.

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