The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No, it sure isn’t.”. As assessment tools, these tests, and the learning plans they generate, fail to meet the needs of teachers and learners.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 4, 2018

The topic for our first productivity roundtable is streamlining the grading and assessment process. They’ve found more effective ways to monitor and assess student learning, and they’re going to share those strategies here with you today. They’ll also share their best hacks and time-saving tips related to grading and assessment.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Students take an entrance assessment and grade it together as a class. Students are then given the opportunity to attend a teacher-led session around the topics addressed in the assessment. Yet instead of the teacher dictating who needs to be at the seminar, each student decides if he or she needs additional help.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The elementary teachers in the room solved the problem quickly. But early-childhood and elementary teachers have the daunting task of introducing abstraction to their students: What is a number? Hedges oversees all things math for the Milwaukee district’s elementary and middle schools. I went to the store to buy some fruit.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Audrianna Lesieur, age 11, smiles after demonstrating the strength of “Confidence” with encouragement from classmate William Maestas as her teacher Val Seamons moves on to assist Billy Sabo at Lake Canyon Elementary School. Karen Schauer, superintendent, Galt Joint Union Elementary School District. GALT, Calif. Weekly Update.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The presentation includes several other common standbys, but one tool art teachers in her seminar were excited to learn about was VoiceThread. The library within the app includes many children’s books, so elementary teachers will really like this. While it’s possible to use audio and video feedback, VoiceThread also includes images.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Title for Kaylsta: 3 assessment tools that support student individuality and assets (not deficits). Original title: assessment-tools-that-support-student-individuality. There is another approach to assessment that supports students’ individuality and provides teachers with effective information about their learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

If you teach elementary, you’ll likely have different structures for different content areas as well. Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. See this document for example lesson plans for primary, upper elementary, and secondary using the following templates/structures.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Lukas Graf, head of the Swiss Observatory for Vocational Education and Training described the “basic principle” of Germany’s program as providing all-around training: “in the classroom, in the seminar room, and training in the workplace.” In the 1960s, practical and project-based learning was common in Danish schools, Hutters said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Inspired by a University of California, Los Angeles, seminar they attended on data science for high schoolers, Sajor and Sorensen designed the new course and partnered on it with the ed tech vendor Bootstrap World.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 14, 2015

This framework can be used not only as a planning or assessment tool, but to promote students in self-directed learning and self-created questioning and examination. The Teaching Channel video above models the Socratic Discussion/Socratic Seminar process. Paideia Seminar. The upside? Socratic Discussion. From the (a?)

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

Once student responses come in from a Check-In, it's easy to see what category the students have self-assessed themselves so you can plan your next lesson accordingly. I come from a long line of educators--my grandmother was an elementary teacher in Alabama, and my mom was an ECS teacher in North Carolina where I grew up.

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iLearn Technology

APRIL 23, 2018

Students can create and share a book talk or chapter reflection, discuss current events, delve into a topic, engage in an online Socratic seminar around a given topic, collaborate, verbalize their learning process, etc. Flipgrid is also a great way to build a growth mindset and self-assessment.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

If you teach elementary, you’ll likely have different structures for different content areas as well. Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. See this document for example lesson plans for primary, upper elementary, and secondary using the following templates/structures.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

If you teach elementary, you’ll likely have different structures for different content areas as well. Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. See this document for example lesson plans for primary, upper elementary, and secondary using the following templates/structures.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2011

The ASSISTments Platform ASSISTS students in learning while it gives teachers assessMENT of their students'' progress. Science and literacy instruction in the elementary grades is the focus of a new series of web seminars for the 2010-2011 school year. [link] ASSISTMENTS ( Math 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. So, the district started by replacing separate gifted classes in elementary school with individualized, project-based “talent” classes for all students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In April 2020, as the death toll from COVID mounted across New York City, an elementary school teacher at P.S. 343, the Children’s Lab School, in Sunnyside, Queens, organized a virtual dance party to give her second-grade class some levity. Sign up here to get the latest stories from THE CITY delivered to you each morning.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Via DelawareOnline : “The first step to reducing violence among young people is to have police officers assigned to elementary and middle schools, says a coalition of state officials, education administrators and police.” “ Amplify Slims Down and Spins Off Assessment Content Provider, Fluence ,” says Edsurge.

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