Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Today, many educators want to not only evaluate progress at a point in time but optimize that against the ongoing standards their school mission is built on such as Common Core, International Baccalaureate, NGSE, or TEKS. Teachers create assessments aligned with pre-selected standards. That’s changing.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Here are guidelines, culled from top education sites like Edutopia, Google Education, Educational Technology, and EdWeek that are valuable when evaluating any website: free or small fee. aligned with Blooms Taxonomy, Common Core, ISTE, or other state/national/international standards. positive parent reports. Conclusion.

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Educator Innovator

AUGUST 26, 2014

This was originally posted at Common Sense Graphite. As the new school year begins, articles and resources dedicated to helping teachers develop curriculum and assessments aligned to the Common Core literacy standards are popping up everywhere.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We measured our reading achievement using the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment , which uses Common Core standards to measure what students know and how they grow in math and reading. As administrators, educators, parents, and students, we found joy in our bodies.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 14, 2015

What does it mean to be ‘aligned to the Common Core?’ ’ 12 education guidelines from Alfie Kohn. v=NYR47-XJq64#t=01m55s. Related Posts. Adaptive learning. 10+1 reactions to closing Iowa’s achievement gaps. Test makers should not be driving instruction.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

For Common Core schools: How do they prepare students to succeed with online testing? End-of-year assessments of the Common Core grade-level standards are delivered online. How can parents track assessment such as grades, submitted classwork, and class behavior issues? This isn’t an uncommon concern.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

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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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

a vibrant and accessible teaching guide packed with strategies for implementing Common Core standards using UDL. Autonomy is an essential gateway to engagement, according to the UDL guidelines ; when students feel empowered, they become more excited to learn. Five Great Ideas for Choice Assignments.

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Hapara

MAY 19, 2022

Lesson plans serve as a teacher guideline for what students will learn, why they are learning a skill and how they will learn it and demonstrate their proficiency. The first step to planning an effective lesson is to decide what skill you will teach using the Common Core or state standards specific to your content area and grade level.

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Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 7, 2025

Assessment of student mastery of content takes many forms. This list includes support materials for assessments that work with the Common Core State Standards and rubrics for many different assessment products. It also contains some information on the creation of rubrics and assessment in general.

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Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 7, 2025

Assessment of student mastery of content takes many forms. This list includes support materials for assessments that work with the Common Core State Standards and rubrics for many different assessment products. It also contains some information on the creation of rubrics and assessment in general.

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Educator Innovator

AUGUST 26, 2014

This was originally posted at Common Sense Graphite. As the new school year begins, articles and resources dedicated to helping teachers develop curriculum and assessments aligned to the Common Core literacy standards are popping up everywhere.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

The Maine DOE defines proficiency-based education as an academic assessment approach that requires students to demonstrate mastery of certain skills before they progress to the next lesson, get promoted to the next grade level, or receive a diploma.

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Saving Socrates

APRIL 22, 2013

In his post on his blog [link] , Aaron Ross suggests that their are two polar opposite approaches to the neccessity of a common core, those who want to protect and perhaps even popularize it and those who want to totally abandon it. Is a common core necessary for elementary school? He knows it best. I adore E.D.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

New Hampshire is adopting it, too, and developing a statewide assessment method that would replace most standardized tests. He rejects the notion that students have learned something simply because they can pass a series of assessments. Vermont and Maine have passed laws requiring all school districts to phase in the system.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2018

To take advantage of this connection between ELA skills and elections, I put together a lesson plan that challenges students to use their persuasive skills to craft an election platform, analyze audiences, give speeches, and assess each other's campaign messages. Use formative and peer-to-peer assessment techniques.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2018

To take advantage of this connection between ELA skills and elections, I put together a lesson plan that challenges students to use their persuasive skills to craft an election platform, analyze audiences, give speeches, and assess each other's campaign messages. Use formative and peer-to-peer assessment techniques.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

For those of you familiar with tabletop roleplay like Dungeons & Dragons, these guidelines act as their "character sheets."). In this way, students must, as constituents, assess other students and also, as candidates, craft speeches for constituencies.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The current arguments over the Common Core State Standards underscore our confusion. The impulse of the Common Core writers, surely shared by even those who disagree with specifics, is a noble one: To find an antidote to the narrow test-based accountability and laundry list of outcomes spawned by NCLB. Minimize Testing .

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

It is difficult for teachers to really understand what data to act on and how assessment results should change their daily practice. Principles such as there should be data from multiple sources and data is only as good as the instrument or assessment from which it is derived.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Thursday, February 27th at 11am Creating Connected Learners Through Virtual Exchange: Assessing the Impact of Virtual Exchange , Part of a month-long webinar series co-hosted by the Exchange 2.0 Following recent conversations about the assessment capacity of MOOCs, this is a great topic! Click here to register. Learn more here.

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MindShift

APRIL 17, 2018

Additionally, t he Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards specifically focus on oral presentations. GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION. In this section, we give some general guidelines for oral presentations with ELLs. The teacher, or classmates, can then use the rubric to offer feedback to the speaker.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Educators prefer to call the new exams assessments, because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests. It’s very important for arts to be seen as a subject that can be and should be tested,” said Frank Philip, an arts education assessment consultant. It’s a parity thing.”.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

About two years ago Houston Independent School District , with its 283 schools and 215,000 students, went in search of an LMS that would help teachers create and use coursework that was both digital and aligned to Texas state standards (Texas pointedly does not use the Common Core).

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 9, 2017

Despite claiming to have found a way to teach all American public school children to be successful, the Common Core website stipulates “while the standards set grade-specific goals, they do not define how the standards should be taught or which materials should be used to support students”. We had very high standards in the I.B.

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MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 16, 2016

Here’s the relevant Common Core standard, for those of you who, like me, like to decipher standards for a living: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.D.9. The Common Core standard supports the use of rulers in this way, and the measurements could also include fractions for the slightly older students.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Get to know SnapThought – one of our assessment tools – and the new game Sortify, which adds another dimension to playful assessment. Common Core Camp in UAE , The camps will introduce American curriculum schools, leaders and educators in the UAE who are new to the Common Core Standards. Join here !

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Dr. Rachel Clarke, Principal Globalizing the English Common Core Reading Materials - Ashley Gwinn Master Teacher and Curriculum Specialist Gomabseubnida, Seoul: How My Summer in Korea Made Me a Better Teacher. - Barrios, Ed.D.; Associate Professor Harmonizing Global Alliances: A Case Study of Afghanistan - Maria A.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

From the development of its Proficiency Guidelines, to its leadership role in the creation of national standards, ACTFL focuses on issues that are critical to the growth of both the profession and the individual teacher. Curriculum is available online and for iBooks, with interactive activities, videos, and assessments.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” The Whiteboard Advisors’ latest “Education Insider” report ( PDF ) is on assessment trends, higher education, and the presidential campaigns. ” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. ” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Drops Defense of Obama Guidelines on Transgender Students.” Edsurge also “forecasts the future” of ed-tech and is hopeful. Screw equality, I guess – or “Ka-ching,” as Edsurge likes to say. ” More via WaPo and Buzzfeed.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

The Department of Education has released its newly proposed guidelines for school accountability. Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. More via The New York Times. More via Politico.

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

” Republicans are made because the Department of Education issued guidelines about how ESSA should be implemented. Via Education Week : “New Test Pitched As Alternative to Common Core-Focused High School Exams.” ” “Word about the Vector Assessment of Readiness for College, or Vector A.R.C.,

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