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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

We must collect formative assessment data in each lesson to understand our students’ progress and respond to their needs. Formative assessment is a process of gathering information about students’ understanding and their progress toward firm standards-aligned learning goals. Check for understanding.

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How To Effectively Use Educational Assessment Tools

ViewSonic Education

Quick Take: Overview of educational assessment tools focusing on Summative assessment and Formative assessment. A comparison of summative assessment and formative assessment. The main components of being an educator are preparation, teaching, and assessment. How to explain summative assessment.

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Leveraging SWOT to Navigate the Winds of Change

A Principal's Reflections

Second, knowing where a district or school stands can facilitate comparisons with similar schools or district benchmarks. A SWOT analysis can be a valuable tool for leaders to assess their institution's overall health and identify potential areas for growth. This can reveal gaps in performance or areas where you are excelling.

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Using AI in Service of Strong Pedagogical Practice

Catlin Tucker

The Danger of a Myopic Focus on AI Technology Tools It reminds me of the early days of the edtech boom when I would attend the Computer Using Educators (CUE) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conferences, and the most popular sessions had titles like “50 Tech Tools in 50 Minutes.”

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How to Explain Cybersecurity for Children

Ask a Tech Teacher

Password manager comparison chart can be a helpful tool in choosing the right manager for their needs. Debates and open discussions are perfect for assessing children’s current understanding. For example, in a proxy server vs VPN debate , a teacher can immediately assess a pupil’s knowledge of how these softwares work.

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Measuring Student Engagement with Digital Tools

ViewSonic Education

Aside from asking students to assess their own levels of engagement — a perfectly valid process, albeit one which is influenced by bias — measurement has often relied upon the perception of teachers or outside observers. Of course, these perceptions can also be flawed. Student-Centered Insights .

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11 Ways to Add #Inquiry to Your Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

You had lesson plans to get through, standards to assess, meetings to attend, parents to council, and state-wide tests that students must do well on. Maybe that comparison doesn’t work, but you get my point–your favorite lessons allowed you to think). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.