eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2015

In the past few years, the Common Core has significantly altered the landscape in terms of mathematics education. The Common Core has also required more coherence in our curriculum. It also allows us to take a blended learning approach to our Common Core math instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

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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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

” 2010 was also the year that the Common Core Standards Initiative was enacted in response to numerous indicators of low student academic performance. “More tech-based monitoring and assessment tools will be incorporated into to the instructional mix.” ” 1:1 + Common Core = $$$$$.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That includes everything from Common Core to the IB philosophy, from Depth of Knowledge to Project-based Learning. Assessment is about my impact. None of these have anything to do with teacher training, background, test scores, rubrics, class size, or pay scales. I confess, I found it frustrating.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 29, 2022

From educational institutions to multinational organizations and training professionals, everyone seems to insist on their importance. Finally, SMART goals will help you continuously optimize and improve your teaching and assessment. . Some LMSs already offer a set of built-in curriculum standards such as US Common Core Standards. .

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The results from those new Common Core tests – designed explicitly to look for the skills kids need in college, namely critical thinking, problem solving and analytical writing skills – have been held up as proof of the persistence of deep-seated disparities in the education provided to poor students and children of color.

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Saving Socrates

AUGUST 28, 2013

What Parents Need to Know About the Common Core and How They Can Help Their Children The Common Core is an attempt to nationalize the curriculum creating common core standards in grades K-12. To this effect, I will be giving them extensive professional development training on the new standards.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I polled my PLN to find specific tech areas students needed help with in preparing for the Assessments. Pay attention to these and your students will be much more prepared for this Spring’s Common Core assessments: Keyboarding. Common Core requires this. Teacher Training. Problem Solving.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 2, 2015

Through their dashboard, teachers can identify which students have mastered specific standards, what learning goals should come next for each student, and which students require in-depth interventions to meet the standard(s) being assessed. This includes onsite training as well as webinars. – See more at: [link].

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MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

For states adopting Common Core, the standards apply to kindergarten, laying out what students should be able to do by the end of the grade.* While Common Core aligned assessments don’t kick in until third grade, many teachers feel pressure to make sure kids are meeting the specified standards before they move on to first grade.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2016

When we imagine the future of assessment it’s easy to envision all sorts of impressive ways to help gauge what students know and what they can do. Fortunately, professional development specialists who understand the value of the full process are providing training and tools for true formative assessment. Can testing keep up?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2017

Zap Zap Math is a free gamified way to teach math skills that’s tied to many national and international standards (like Common Core). Each math topic is divided into four skills: Training, Accuracy, Speed and Mission , with appropriate games to support each goal. – Angles. – Time. – Pre-school Math.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

Supplies and summaries of labs, including outcomes and assessment tips. Common Core State Standards (See more on the Fire Forensics Site ). 1 – Fire Investigators in Training. Students start by becoming “fire investigators in training.” This Guide includes: Rubrics. Fire Lab Safety Instructions. Cost: FREE.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The nine authors, most of whom hail from the University of Virginia, issued a press release trumpeting it as the first long-term study of a knowledge-rich curriculum and the first to show outsized gains on state assessments. They said the gains were large enough to catapult U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A decade ago, Common Core math was introduced to emphasize understanding over rote learning, but the delivery of standards varies across schools, classrooms and teachers, depending both on who is being assessed and who is doing the assessing. They are more likely to be assessed on their merits and performance.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Better results for project-based learning were documented on a variety of tests, from Advanced Placement exams in high school to annual state assessments in math and reading in sixth grade. The structured curriculum in the four trials helped avoid common project-based learning pitfalls.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

This goes well beyond Khan Academy’s online video training, into fantasy worlds of trolls and wizards, the type of activities most parents have tried to keep their kids away from. Content aligns with Common Core, state standards and classroom instruction. Click the link for more detail. – See more at: [link].

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2015

Mindprint Learning provides a cognitive assessment developed for children that can be administered online. “Mindprint’s cognitive assessment was developed in the Brain Behavior Lab at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Computerized method for assessing cognitive domains. ” The science!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 26, 2017

For example, a unit on space is supported by a virtual chat with an astronaut from the space station or his Houston training facility. Here are three that schools face: Teacher training. Students start with an assessment to determine where they are in their math learning and move forward from there. Infrastructure.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2015

Teachers eagerly looked for tech options to traditional ‘fill out this sheet of paper’ approaches to ending class and/or assessing learning. To find out new training as it becomes available, sign up for my publisher’s newsletter and you’ll be the first to hear.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But I wasn’t trained to teach literacy,” you say—and I’m right there with you. This was,” Elizalde explains, “the initial assessment for a framework called the Learning Record. Students created a computer program using free online coding platform Scratch to show their progress on a particular Common Core narrative writing standard.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

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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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2019

He recently authored Transforming Schools: Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment and Common Core Standards. Majority of teachers never received training on PBL when they were earning their teaching credential, nor did they experience PBL when they were in school.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

The product will enable teachers of all subject areas to create and share digital assignments that correlate to Khan Academy videos and other materials, including more than 60,000 Common Core-aligned lessons and interactive exercises. The five county offices of education will be “endorsing” Khan Academy’s new tool for the classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

So it’s a legitimate question: Who teaches students how to use the school’s digital devices and what training do they get to support that responsibility? For Common Core schools: How do they prepare students to succeed with online testing? Is it a one-off PD day or ongoing? This isn’t an uncommon concern.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Best practices examples include correlating assessments and instruction to the Common Core State Standards, educators using i-Ready Diagnostic data to drive student intervention and differentiated learning techniques, blending i-Ready Instruction and Ready Mathematics curricula, and more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available. Digital portfolios—via wikis.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Jon’s core PL skills are focused on 1:1 deployment, Common Core, Project Based Learning, social media skills and Lesson Design. Under Jon’s Leadership, and with his CUE Professional Learning Team, CUE PL has trained over 32,000 teachers in 2015-2017. VICKI: Happy edtech tool Tuesday.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2015

Now the state will begin a 10-month sprint to design new English and math tests and train schools to administer those tests next spring. That’s about one-third as long as Ohio and its schools had to prepare for PARCC (the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers). Next page: Biggest PARCC problems.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 28, 2015

I want to work smarter, not harder, and not be like Alice falling down the rabbit hole learning a new and managing a new-to-me assessment platform. @KtBkr4 I also made these two sheets for students to help them track progress in competencies throughout course: https://t.co/xeYX3gW81x I don't want another platform.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The one change that I didn’t see coming was a shift in my curiosity about assessment. If we say we’re going to assess students on a wide array of competencies such as collaboration, agency and communication skills, we have to also teach them these skills. The result is that assessment now resembles something of a scavenger hunt.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 31, 2017

And then in addition to that, it just gave me a great assessment tool to be able to assess whether they had actually mastered the type of volcano that they each had researched. It’s a research that I got from my training. They recently sent me to a coaching training. And it’s by Kate Kinsella. GREETZEL: It is so hard.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

Educators at Torah Academy teach courses that cover everything from Common Core mathematics to Judaic studies, as well as provide services including speech therapy and vocational training. As a school for students with special needs, Torah Academy does not use letter or number grades to assess student progress.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Teacher-prep programs, she added, bear a large part of the responsibility here: Many teachers-in-training receive just one course in how to teach reading — a teaching task which experts agree is extremely complex — before heading into the classroom. Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair?

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2016

But when Mancos decided to adopt Mastery Connect , an online resource to help track student mastery of Common Core standards and to align curriculum, leaders realized that they needed a more intensive approach to training teachers to use the new digital tool. The district shifted its PD focus to peer coaching a few years ago.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Few corporate brand names in education are as recognizable, and as polarizing, as Pearson, the giant education provider whose reach extends to virtual schools, testing, language training and an array of other areas. Fallon described the scope of the company’s reach in different areas of K-12, higher education, and professional training.

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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. He trained in that area. Is a common core necessary for elementary school?

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