The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 8, 2025

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

But one thing is certain: teachers need to consider the way they assess students in these specific conditions. Assessment is often associated with quizzes, exams, and summative assessments. However, summative assessments offer a limited perspective. How to manage assessments in the blended classroom.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 10, 2025

Keeping your students engaged is crucial to effective learning, but how do you know if theyre truly paying attention? Top-rated student engagement tracking solutions can help. With the rise of education technology, tracking engagement has never been easier. So, how do you keep them actively involved?

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Neo LMS

JUNE 3, 2021

Beyond the adjustments related to instruction, it was challenging to get into a workflow and figure out how to best provide for students at home and in the classroom space. As teachers, we need to be able to check in with students to see how they are doing, first and foremost, and to assess their progress in our class.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 2, 2024

What strategies were used to improve student engagement and academic outcomes at Quest Academy? Learn how Nicki’s leadership reshaped classrooms, improved student engagement, and increased academic performance.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Educators want assessments to be instructionally useful and provide data they can use to help students learn, but not all assessments do that. So what do instructionally useful assessments look like? Designing instructionally useful assessments does not have to be difficult.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

” She: “So my doctor actually knows how to do the surgery. I don't want someone who leaned on AI to operate on me, I want someone who really knows how to do the surgery.” I actually have to KNOW how to do that. I noticed at the time that he and at least one other student were struggling with the basics.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 24, 2020

Interviews with teachers, administrators, and other researchers showed us that “Look for” documents offer teachers and administrators a mutual starting point for collaborative visioning, self-assessment, and collective goal-setting for classroom practice. Explore the CT Pathways Toolkit. Learn more about computational thinking.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The most important factors to consider are the type of software and hardware offered by the provider and how they can benefit your classroom. Keep reading to make sure you have the know-how on how to maximum your provider and don’t forget to check out ViewSonic’s education solution page to learn even more. .

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 1, 2020

Many of the devices even come with excellent software packages that can be used to increase student engagement. No matter how many are purchased, the expense is significant. Just having one student use it during large group while the others watch just doesn’t cut it in my opinion.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 12, 2020

An LMS allows teachers to create and deliver content that can be easily accessed by students. It also allows you to monitor student engagement and participation, assess student knowledge and track their performance, even outside the four walls of a classroom. Lastly, evaluate for success!

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2019

CoSN 2019: How to Design an Effective K–12 Technology Evaluation Program. Assessments can be used to make programs more cost-effective, improve implementation, enable replication elsewhere in the district and justify more funding to administrators. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 04/04/2019 - 11:01. Community Schools.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Understanding how to get the most out of this technology will enable you to refresh your teaching methods and optimize performance in the digital classroom. Or, teachers also have the opportunity to gamify their lessons, using tools like ClassPoint AI or Quizziz to break up the lessons and check students progress. In fact, 91.5%

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

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Neo LMS

APRIL 19, 2022

If they can prove mastery of those competencies, students can move further in their learning instead of being forced to attend classes on that same topic together with their colleagues. A more engaging learning experience. Moreover, students are in charge of managing the content. Improved confidence and self-assessment skills.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. Check out Designing Online Assessments for Students — a course that can help you in this area.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Our decisions need to focus on helping students by designing assessments and ways to show what they have learned while also promoting voice and choice in learning. Consider how the method or tool will enhance learning or provide more benefits for students beyond being a way to practice the content or take an assessment.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Research around the pedagogy of effective blended learning will help you understand how to effectively combine your physical classroom and your online classroom. Learn How 2. Student Anxiety Anxiety is an issue for both students and teachers during the pandemic. The truth is if we don’t care for ourselves, who will?

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 7, 2025

If youre curious where you fall, try the VARK self-assessment its quick and surprisingly revealing. Why Learning Styles Matter in the Classroom Even if the science isnt clear-cut, one thing remains clear: students dont all learn the same wayand thats worth paying attention to. Heres how to make your classroom more active.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2020

Outline of Conversation (Direct Links) 0:31 Introductions 4:24 What teachers are saying during the coronavirus stay-home orders 8:38 Emotional Stress, Kids, and Self-Care 10:32 How children respond to trauma 13:35 The problem with being too rigid 13:55 What makes effective distance learning 18:10 Consistent layout in online learning 18:54 Don’t (..)

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 16, 2023

By understanding how these tools impact teaching and learning, educators can determine which ones to use and how to implement them effectively. Innovative assessments The changing formats and contexts of assignments have necessitated a corresponding evolution in assessment methods. Purposeful use by the learner is vital.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

Recently, I met with two education leaders to discuss how to improve teacher and student engagement through creativity. Assessment is more involved as projects being graded for creativity are more challenging than just checking a worksheet to see what answers the student got right or wrong.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 17, 2019

Keep students engaged. Students come to school to receive the best education possible – therefore it is a school’s responsibility to provide an educational experience that integrates the latest edtech solutions that empower teachers to deliver engaging and interesting lessons. Keep students engaged.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] While edtech tools are in most classrooms, not every educator understands how to use technology in meaningful ways. Student engagement was the main driver to teaching the learning outcomes, and Heather helped educators do this with technology.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 8, 2022

This type of system allows teachers to easily walk students through their classes and evaluate them in a fun way. Thus, learning turns into an interactive and immersive experience and evaluation looks more like a challenging competition than a traditional assessment. How to set up a classroom gamification level system.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is a type of project-based learning distinguished by its insistence that students engage with, investigate , and act on authentic and motivating challenges. Teachers are still grappling with the challenge of finding the right amount of guidance and student choice within CBL activities.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Moore have organized the self-assessment tool into three sections: The context and design of your course. ESCALA expanded the feedback methods to include ones related to inclusive teaching and came up with a video observation tool called the TOPSE (Teaching Observation Protocol for Student Engagement).

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 21, 2021

The conference will also have some how-to sessions on popular features and getting started: Flashcard Factory – Pear Deck vocabulary game that transforms the way students learn vocabulary. Pear Deck 101 – how to get started using formative assessments, polls, and interactives to achieve 100% student engagement.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

Students must share the responsibility for 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. Students will be more interested and engaged because they have more control over their learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

It just helps to have that additional guidance, support and partnering with a student, to help teach them how to manage their time. They may also consider experiments that fellow residential campuses are trying aimed at providing students with more support before they ask for it.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It can be challenging, though, keeping students engaged during remote learning. Why it’s important to keep learners engaged. Research shows that when learners are engaged, they achieve at an academically higher level. emotional engagement. cognitive engagement.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Joseph Valver and his fellow instructional technology facilitators at Hamilton Township School District in New Jersey were providing numerous options for educators in their district to learn how to use education technology, but something was holding educators back. . “As Google Classroom Tools Let Educators Access PD Anywhere.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

AI encourages cheating A common fear is that students will use AI to bypass learning. While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. Preparing students for the future AI isn’t going away. generating connections between concepts).

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

Takeaway : Know what you want an edtech product to accomplish for your district, decide how you’re going to evaluate its effectiveness before you start your pilot, and communicate these needs to vendors. Use proven tools from the Edtech Pilot Framework to assess a product’s performance.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2020

When schools went remote last spring, educators had to get creative to continue instruction without sacrificing student engagement. Research shows that PBL can help students build 21st-century skills such as collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

When schools went remote last spring, educators had to get creative to continue instruction without sacrificing student engagement. Research shows that PBL can help students build 21st-century skills such as collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Understanding Our Students’ Needs When I work with teachers to design learning experiences that strive to meet students where they are in their individual learning journeys, the first item on the agenda is pre-assessments. Before diving into the unit, he administers a pre-assessment to his diverse class of 30 students.

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