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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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

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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Learning Digital Divide Blended Learning Professional Learning 546

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Web20Classroom

MAY 17, 2017

Swivl Recap Flipgrid Formative Assessment Tech-Savvy Educators understand the need to know where students are in their learning as soon as possible. Through the use of formative assessment we can best understand not only how students know what they know but how our teaching can respond to individual needs. Want to learn more?

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Let’s begin with the definition. Visual knowledge is a set of abilities that allow an individual to find, interpret, assess, use, and create images that facilitate the understanding of a specific context: social, ethical, artistic, technical, scientific. Well, a mix of technology and visual knowledge is a good start.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

An LMS has the advantage of being the gate for all activities: class management, teaching, assessment, extra-curricular events, etc. In this case, less is definitely more. Keeping up with all notifications or keeping track of who does what and where can be exhausting. One place for all stakeholders.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 30, 2020

In addition to using Google search operations to improve their searches, students need to practice assessing website credibility. They have to drag and drop the definitions so that they appear next to the corresponding vocabulary words. They should ask questions like, does this website have an author?

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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. It is widely accepted that the higher the level of student engagement, the better. But what exactly is student engagement?

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 23, 2020

However, if you feel that some things could be communicated online rather than calling a meeting, the LMS is definitely your friend. Are all your staff meetings as effective as they can be? If so, this step isn’t for you. In all seriousness, my dog did chew off my Math textbook back in 6th grade, so these things happen.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In fact, if you think of generative AI as a collaborator in a group project, there’s actually quite a lot of existing practice and literature we can tap into for guidance about using generative AI effectively in the service of learning – both in how students learn and how instructors assess. assessment and ?peer assessment and ?peer

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. List as many definitions of the word “turkey” as you can think of and ask students to check off all those familiar to them. Holiday Poll.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

And this is definitely doable: There are games where I can get so immersed in the fun, that I don’t particularly care what happens at the end. Others ask the players to decide for themselves how well they played at the end of the game. Some try to remove all of the rules and let players run around in a sandbox world.

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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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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In my last post we explored surprising findings that many recent high school graduates (and by definition digital natives) arrive in the workplace or college, without sufficient computer skills. Today we will further examine the whys and hows of this strange aberration. Students are bad at Google search.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

With the technology still in its emergent phase, teachers who are interested in these solutions may also find it difficult to gather definitive best practices. A basic technology infrastructure including a student information system, assessment data, digital instructional resources and bandwidth to schools, is essential.”.

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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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