The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Assignments Due : Specify any assignments, quizzes, or other assessments that are due for this class session. One Class at a Time In secondary, I have found it is best to generate lesson plans one class at a time. Assignments Due : Specify any assignments, quizzes, or other assessments that are due for this class session.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. Challenge: Encourage them to identify parts of the music that they found unexpected or unfamiliar.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

Welcoming parents to school events and into their child’s education is essential, but parent empowerment goes further to create strong parent-teacher partnerships. 8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9].

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2024

Students also need practice with primary and secondary sources before diving in and analyzing and finding their own. They need access to a rich variety of secondary and primary sources beyond the textbook to set them up with the skills necessary to succeed in their own deep dive.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 27, 2019

The full paid program offers many more supports, including individualized program consultancy and activation events at Google’s campuses to help school leadership teams get the most impact from our program and transform every classroom in their buildings. This is just one element of the Dynamic Learning Project, now available for all schools!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 13, 2018

Polls, forms, and surveys are great options when teachers need to create sign-up sheets, push out formative assessments, auto-grade quizzes, and more. Warmups are 3-5-minute unassisted class starters to assess what students know about a topic or remember from a previous class. Twitter can also be used as a poll or a warmup/exit ticket.

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Meeting Survey Google Twitter 186

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When I volunteer in my children’s elementary classrooms (1st and 3rd grade), I am struck by how frequently the teacher finds time to work directly with small groups of students to offer additional support, review concepts, assess understanding, and practice skills. At the secondary level scenes like this are less frequent.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2024

This article explores the significance of digital tools in social studies instruction, delving into their benefits, implications, and the emerging capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) in both elementary and secondary settings.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge. Bitsize is the BBC’s collection of free short videos and lessons (they’re all bite-sized) on over fifty subjects taught in Primary or Secondary education. When I started teaching, videos were a rarity.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2023

Rafalski highlighted her district's use of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds to invest in a district-wide curriculum while also focusing on analyzing the efficacy of the implemented changes. The event will offer two innovation tracks, focusing on technology and curriculum.

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Technology Digital Learning Outcomes Data 148

EdTechTeacher

JUNE 9, 2023

Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. Examples of ChatGPT used to create education games Below are several examples of ChatGPT used to create educational games for primary and secondary students. Check out our first tip here!

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. She is in Seattle, Washington, and she and I have actually spent some time together when I was out there at an event. Prior to landing her librarian dream job, she was both a secondary and primary classroom teacher.

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edWeb.net

MAY 30, 2019

We, as edtech leaders and classroom teachers, must explore pathways where assessments support teaching and learning in the 21st century. Authentic assessments are always about the connections we make with students, each other, and the broader community as indicated in a Gallup poll. But What About Technology?

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 4, 2023

Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. For example: Watch an animated story and choose the correct sequence of events from a list of options. secondary school students) B. Check out our first tip here!

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Secondary Course Examples Elementary 158

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Connecting emotion and content Jill Weber, a secondary school teacher in Cheney, Kansas, uses an effective ELA and social studies strategy called Note card confessions. I want students to be able to trace the chain of events. Jill’s students start by analyzing letters and diary entries of early Kansas settler Mary Abell. What happened?

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2019

By combining all of this data, teaching SEL skills and doing the SOS assessment, not only are we having serious and meaningful conversations with families, but we are saving lives,” explains Dain. And we share that data with parents so they can see how their child scores during that assessment window. They also can see the trend data.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The two events prevented many children from accessing high-quality, in-person early care and education opportunities before kindergarten. During the pandemic, many early learning programs and preschools — already a scarce resource in the area, Lambert says — shuttered temporarily. Some are not yet able to use the restroom independently.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2023

Being a secondary language arts teacher for six years now, I have noticed an increase in the multiracial and multiethnic student population. I mentioned the time in third grade when an ESOL teacher saw me in the hallway and decided I should take an English proficiency assessment, even though English is my first and only language.

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Meeting Secondary Social Media Exercises 178

eSchool News

AUGUST 13, 2024

Concrete operational stage (7-11 years old) In the concrete operational stage, children begin to think logically about concrete events. In secondary education, challenging students with abstract thinking, encouraging debate and discussion, and assigning independent projects are key strategies for promoting deeper learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

The event was part of our EdSurge Live series. That's an interesting dynamic where so much of this is at this intersection of not just higher ed or post-secondary education world, but it's also what's happening in terms of employer training. Read highlights from the conversation below (which have been edited and condensed for clarity).

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

We’re also making big investments in authentic assessments that know more than whether you’ve got the answer right or wrong, but why, and providing much more granular, personal and adaptive, feedback to students based on the years of data that we have, on the tens of millions of students that we’ve got. If not, what can we learn?”

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Sometimes these connections allow student to use areas of past knowledge to understand and construct new knowledge… many times the role of a PBL Launch or Entry Event. At the same time, we must remember to connect to the content standards while facilitating and assessing 21st century skills. You may need to get parent permission.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The event is free for all educators—sign up here! Initiative 2: Reconsidering Internet Filtering — Filtering policies had originally been set up to protect students, but they often frustrated secondary educators and students alike. Want to learn more about Seattle’s burgeoning edtech scene?

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

Today, Lee is a Post Secondary Programs Coordinator for Valley Center USD 262. During this advisory time, students use the software to research careers, research their majors and even figure out which careers match their personality using Xello’s Matchmaker assessment. Our job as educators is to inspire and inform our students.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The Learning Revolution Project highlights virtual and physical events from Web 2.0 These events bring together educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, and home learning worlds. Don''t forget to mark your calendar for the actual event, February 22nd and 23rd in Australia Eastern Standard Time.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. Finally, we align each assessment item with the outcome it is designed to assess. High student prior knowledge, inherently easy learning outcome, highly effective content, poorly written assessment.

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OER Outcomes Analysis Assessment 122

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own virtual and physical events and those of our more than 200 partners. Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Ten Conversations Submit a Video or Quote Final Notes Updates Learning Revolution Big Events Updates.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Yet to hear the state’s commissioner of elementary and secondary education tell it, there’s still a lot of work to be done. On Standardized Testing In the ’90s the best test in America was in Maryland, the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program. Massachusetts has done very well,” said Commissioner Jeffrey C.

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Education Data Elementary Conference 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Often times writing becomes an event,” West-Smith says. Revision Assistant's Secondary Education Prompt Library —middle and high school writing prompts organized by grade level. These are some of Patti West-Smith's favorite resources about writing instruction and assessment: ReadWriteThink.org. "On Don’t let writing get scary.

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Tools Education Secondary Assessment 134

eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Produced with the insights of an international panel of experts, and with nearly one million downloads per year, this report on emerging technologies for learning is likely the most well-read report identifying key technology trends for primary and secondary education. Next page: The key trends. Wearable Technology.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own virtual and physical events and those of our more than 200 partners. Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Ten Conversations Submit a Video or Quote Kudos Updates School Leadership Summit Dates Expanded!

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edWeb.net

MARCH 17, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast When the Nation’s Report Card for 2022 was released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the declines in student reading and math scores were alarming, but for many, the data was not surprising.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2023

Teachers will also receive regular updates to a curated collection of professional development, lesson plans, engaging activities, discussion prompts, assessment tools, worksheets and more. Members can make their voices heard in regular opinion checks, prompts and surveys. Gale Community For Educators is open for membership.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

Today, Lee is a Post Secondary Programs Coordinator for Valley Center USD 262. During this advisory time, students use the software to research careers, research their majors and even figure out which careers match their personality using Xello’s Matchmaker assessment. Our job as educators is to inspire and inform our students.

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Tools Future Ready Software Program Evaluation 108

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

One of the most impactful activities from my Master’s coursework in secondary English education was a reader biography. Equipped with proven strategies for improving reading and writing skills, I was excited to challenge my young flock with a quick assessment of their reading habits to inform our next steps.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Missed signals: The effect of ACT college-readiness measures on post-secondary decisions. How do we assess student growth / development? Our current assessments aren’t up to the task. News and Events iowa STEM' Iowa’s 25th place math ranking shows we have work to do. What’s missing? What/who/where is the solution?

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