The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 27, 2022

This is definitely going to help me make google docs more user-friendly for students and teachers. Screencasting is such a vital skill for students and an essential part of a teacher's formative assessment toolkit. Assessment. on Google Docs. Look at Eric's awesome handout and see how he used emojis in his headings.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 4, 2017

It definitely helps that I am a skilled typist. If you have a strategy you use to provide feedback or assess student work, please share it! Since I published “ Stop Taking Grading Home ,” I’ve had a ton of teachers ask me how I am able to give feedback on Google Docs so quickly.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

But after only a few minutes of conversation, it’s abundantly clear that Kyra Donovan and Dr. Julie Miles share a passion for learning and a strong conviction that assessment is essential to creating the best educational outcomes for students of all abilities. Classroom Solutions - Assessment. Connected Teaching and Learning.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

” This definition is grounded in a constructivist perspective that positions the student at the center of learning. That means they need to be able to flex their metacognitive muscles by setting goals, tracking and monitoring their progress, reflecting on their learning, and assessing their own work.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

As you can see in the graphic, you have quick exit tickets, self-assessments, speed up games, and more that you can add to your library to easily insert into your lessons. So, definitely, build your library first so you have resources available. In a larger class, I would definitely have students split into 4 person groups.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While coaching teachers this month, several expressed a desire to include review and practice activities in their station rotation lessons to help students prepare for end-of-the-semester assessments. Helping students review for an exam often takes the form of a study guide or review game. I thought it was a brilliant idea!

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 22, 2019

These programs provide repetition and interleaved practice of word and definition knowledge to help learners be comfortable with new words. However, learning words and their definitions is only the beginning of mastering vocabulary. Although this may be the lowest DOK level, familiarity with definitions provides fluency in thought.

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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 definitely boosted student engagement through the power of choice.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 19, 2024

Such routines include students saying the word aloud, clapping out syllables, looking up and writing down the definition, and finding examples and non-examples of vocabulary terms. In addition to being an engaging activity, this strategy was a great way for me to assess my students’ understanding of the academic vocabulary informally.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Well be seeing some exciting shifts within education that will leverage technology to transform learning and assessment in meaningful ways. This shift isnt just about moving assessments online–its about making tests more efficient and accessible for students.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Here is my definition shared in Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms that makes a distinction between instruction: Blended instruction is what the teacher does with technology. The teacher establishes a block of time for each station, and students visit each one during a class period followed by some sort of forma¬tive assessment.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

It is filled with thoughts on Student Communication Skills including “I can” statement(s), classroom attributes, and assessment rubrics. Communication: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education. Make assessment of Communication an ongoing effort. Self assessment can be powerful).

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Encourage self-assessment. Self-assessment exercises encourage students to develop their metacognitive muscles while providing the teacher with useful information about the factors that are positively or negatively impacting student engagement. Regularly ask students to reflect on their participation and engagement in breakout rooms.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As most school systems have learned by now, assessing learning in a pandemic comes with all sorts of challenges, including but not limited to how (and where) to assess students and whether the data being gathered is even accurate. As assessment and curriculum leaders for two different districts, we’re still discovering the answers.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 22, 2020

Greg Kulowiec provides an excellent working definition: App Smashing is the process of using multiple apps to create projects or complete tasks. App Smashing can provide your students with creative and inspired ways to showcase their learning and allow you to assess their understanding and skills.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 25, 2020

An emphasis on priority standards can significantly reduce teachers' burden while streamlining other pedagogy aspects, such as assessment. Additionally, many teachers are still getting used to tasks and assessments in a hybrid environment. In the end, more manageable conditions are created for teachers.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 2, 2020

It also provides school leaders with a lens to provide valuable feedback to teachers when it comes to addressing priority standards, implementing scaffolding techniques, creating performance tasks, and developing quality assessments. If professional learning was not emphasized, it’s definitely not too late.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2020

Create a scaffolded formative assessment for all students to complete once they are finished (3 questions or more that increase in difficulty). If students or adults finish the required choices and formative assessment, have them choose other activities.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

For example, the column on the left can have words and the column on the right can have definitions. Short-Answer : This is less close-ended than the above common assessment questions types. The Definition of Factual Questions: Questions with unambiguous, more or less universally accepted objective answers based on knowledge.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 17, 2020

It teaches how to organize your topics so that students can find their files, how to take attendance (and connect with students while you do), a discussion about due dates, and how to teach students to find files and respond.

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Hapara

APRIL 8, 2025

This platform is where he and other educators place all of their class resources and assessments. Moyes says, I can see you last opened this assessment last week. Youre not waiting till the end of the year or the term or near the end of the assessment before realizing they havent completed something. Is everything okay at home?

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Neo LMS

MARCH 29, 2022

We will walk you through the definition of these objectives, their advantages, and how to set and track them within a learning management system (LMS ). . The definition of good grades is vague and subjective. Finally, SMART goals will help you continuously optimize and improve your teaching and assessment. . Mastery coverage.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Second, AI excels at managing and tracking detailed assessment criteria across many students over time. This allows for seamless monitoring of assessment data and student progress, creating a comprehensive view of each student’s conceptual knowledge and skills. They would just repeat the definition.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2019

My point though is that there is definitely room for growth in terms of validating all the talk with substance. Artifacts such as assessments, lesson plans, unit plans, projects, and examples of student work can easily be converted to a sharable link using Google Docs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also shining a spotlight on an ever-growing inequality in math performance across the country. When it comes to math, students are struggling.

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Neo LMS

JULY 6, 2021

The 2020-2021 school year has definitely been one full of changes and a time when we’ve had to become more flexible in our instruction to adapt to changing learning environments and conditions. We don’t have to be the experts; we just need to know enough to get our students started exploring and creating with AI.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2021

So, social-emotional learning is definitely on the list. . So self-care or “Educator Wellness” is definitely an area for me. Assessment Strategies for SEL. As I work to help students in these times, I know that understanding their trauma and social-emotional needs is important for me to be a better teacher.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2021

Teaching during this past year has definitely challenged me, Lauren, to view things a little bit differently and has forced me out of my comfort zone in many ways. This was a fantastic lesson that genuinely personalized the experience for all kids where they got what they needed when and where they needed it.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

While it’s definitely easier to treat students the same in the classroom — after all, there is but one teacher to 30 students (more or less) — the best teachers are those who understand that students are not the same. The above definition of differentiated instruction offers enough clues on how to actually do it. Carol Ann Tomlinson.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Let’s see what each of them offers before assessing which one is the best. This process can definitely take a lot of time without optimizing anything. This service offers to detect plagiarism and paraphrased content in more than 100 languages, which is definitely a plus. Everyone has heard of Grammarly.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 19, 2022

Once they’re done with their assessments, they can move on to the next chapter and complete classes faster, making the whole experience more engaging. Improved confidence and self-assessment skills. The progress is gradual and constantly monitored through repetitive assessments. This approach builds confidence over time.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Lear(R)n , the company behind the digital LearnPlatform, has recently released its second annual EdTech Top 40 list , which includes everything from assessment tools to operational platforms. . One of the other trends we've seen is the continued growth of assessments and more formative assessment tools. .

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

The last segment of the class could consist of a formative assessment or a closure activity. I suggest only three rotations to begin, but you can definitely add more if you are working with a more extended block of time. Now let me discuss conceptually what the rotational model could look like in a school.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

We can all agree that the phrase “blended learning” is well and truly a part of the modern-day discourse on education; so much so that academics have begun to curate a universal definition, as well as identify sub-themes and genres of the concept. 4 Models of blended learning. The rotation model. Conclusion.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Since it is quite a new concept, each party involved tends to have its own definition and its own strategy as far as implementation is concerned. A very comprehensive model that addresses teaching, learning, and assessment was designed by the Council of Europe. Digital citizenship: a conceptual model for developing a K-12 curriculum.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Quizizz: Turn assessments into fun competitions Quizizz is my top choice for a gamification platform. I use Quizizz for everything from reviewing Greek and Latin roots to preparing for the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs). Students are grouped into teams and work together to match terms and definitions or answer questions.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

And so I definitely agree that inertia is part of the equation here. Do you think that’s an accurate assessment? So I definitely think we need to invert our policy. And so I'm definitely encouraged there, but maybe more than anything just encouraged that this is happening across the political spectrum. No question.

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