The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 15, 2021

How Do We Leverage Pre-Assessment Skills Meaningfully? In this session, we’ll share where we are now, emotional trauma and learning, how effective distance learning compares to face-to-face learning, how to take your class online, accessibility and equity, assessment, and project-based learning. Dawn Stansbury.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 23, 2020

Social-emotional concerns, anxiety, and the impact on learning Engaging students in video content A super video share where teachers share the videos they’ve made for students Assessment tools and tips for online and blended learning For the last 10 minutes we will have a super share of top tools and tips (and I’ll share mine.)

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Brian Aspinall is an educator, best selling author and three times TEDx speaker who is considered one of the brightest STEM innovators in education. His book, Code Breaker – 15+ Ways to Get Started With Coding, continues to top the charts in STEAM Education with a focus on rethinking assessment and evaluation.

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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. Additionally, remember that every eight minutes or so to add a quick formative assessment to know where students are in the lesson. References. Conrad, R.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Affectionately referred to as the “strawberry and lettuce capitals of the country” by Superintendent Galvan, Pajaro Valley School District and Greenfield Union School District are in rural, agricultural working communities, and their students are predominantly of Latin descent. Day 1 of National League of Innovative Schools.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

We need to build in mechanisms into our lessons to collect formative assessment data. In my previous post, I focused on strategies teachers can use before a lesson to assess prior knowledge. Other technology tools can capture and store information for teachers to reference after the lesson. Poll the Class with Mentimeter.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Welcome to another STEM related series of four posts bringing you over 150 amazing resources. I hope you enjoyed my thoughts of STEM being a Verb in the last post. In this series of posts my goal is to provide you with practical resources in each of the STEM areas. Science – STEM Resources. My calendar is filling.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2023

For decades, our country has invested in creating a more diverse STEM workforce by launching efforts that increase the representation of women and people of color in the field. Out-of-school time programs have played a large role, funneling more girls and youth of color into K-12 STEM education programs that introduce them to the field.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

I really like using maker education and STEM/STEAM projects to celebrate holidays and special events. I used the following video as my reference for both materials and procedures: What the students’ molds and candy looked like. Introduction. I showed them Physical and Chemical changes (Brain pop) [link]. Project Description.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These projects are created around Understanding by Design (UbD) principles to emphasize STEM education and have tools to help students customize, evaluate, assess and create portfolios. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 23, 2020

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In fact, Mercy was the first all-girls school in the country to earn a STEM certification. We became STEM certified in 2016 because we wanted independent verification of our program’s quality. Mercy’s curriculum requires at least 75 percent of a course’s assessment points to be for performance tasks addressing real-world problems.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

From stop motion to video controls and cool add-ins for formative assessment and graphics, learn about this Swiss Army Knife of Google tools – Google Slides. Kasey: Pear Deck is a formative assessment tool. Adding those formative assessments in and preparing for those. Let’s look at it. Vicki: Yes.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

These are important skills for students to master, not least because of the growing demand for science and STEM professionals. Here in California, like other states nationwide, the STEM job market is rapidly growing but students are still graduating without the skills and knowledge needed to fill these high-paying jobs.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

How can we design and implement STEM education and design thinking strategies building on our professional priorities (ie., What’s the difference between STEM, STEAM, and STREAM? Participants will design powerful learning experiences for these classrooms as well as formative and summative assessments. STE(A)M Assessment.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2019

This site features actionable summaries and videos on key topics like STEM learning and family engagement, as well as an interactive visualization of education research. Formative Assessment. Formative assessment is a process of using recent data from a group of learners to adapt instruction to improve learning for that group.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Educators who choose to use MagicSchool for their lesson plans can also use MagicSchool’s specialized offering for quiz creation to create multiple-choice assessments that can even be exported to Google Forms. Chatterbot AI is similar to ChatGPT and can be used to create assessments for mathematics, physics, and other analytical subjects.

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Neo LMS

JULY 19, 2022

It doesn’t refer to a student being limited due to parental restrictions but rather to things like ethnicity, socioeconomic status, physical and mental ability. It allows educators to make interactive lessons utilizing active learning, formative assessments, retrieval practices, and more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Sponsor : PowerSchool has fantastic a fantastic K12 Academic Leaders Webinar Series at coolcatteacher.com/PowerSchoolWebinar including my “Digital Dozen: 12 Tips for Building Your Digital Classroom” and an upcoming webinar on “Best Practices for a Balanced Assessment System.” Listen to the Show. Related Shows.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It’s also important to consider technology that can be used across subjects and curriculums; for example, robotics kits that can not only be used to teach core STEM subjects but can also be used in English, geography, and history lessons to help bring subjects to life. . Encourage Collaboration.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 22, 2022

Read more: STEM vs. STEAM: The importance of the Arts. Interdisciplinary teaching does not only refer to activities and projects analyzed from different perspectives related to a few disciplines. The benefits of interdisciplinary teaching. Read more: 3 Opportunities for education during the pandemic.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Schools also tend to rely on spoken communication to teach and written exams to assess learning. Researchers referred to this as multimodal meaning-making, or using several ways of communicating to process and convey information. New methods of teaching may help close this gap, according to a new study from the University of Georgia.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Consequently, on a recent benchmark assessment, students made significant growth within that domain, which is typically seen at the end of the school year after that unit is taught. Grounded in STEM, these exercises help kids develop computational thinking and technical ability, which improves their real-world problem-solving skills.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2018

So this work stems from my dissertation research which was an ethnography. The teachers in this book really refer to games not as games, but as virtual field trips or digital field trips where their students would experience something, and then they would be able to take that context and use it in a learning environment. Vicki: Hmmm.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Upstream Violence Prevention One of the most effective approaches to stemming the school violence crisis is a scalable community approach using upstream violence prevention. This approach refers to preventing violence before it starts by giving members of the school community the tools and accountability to ensure a safe environment for all.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This fantastic addition to your class lets students create audience-facing works for authentic assessment that can also be keepsakes from their year in your classroom. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based tool that lets you customize assessments with multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and more. If they want to, they can, if they want to reference their own personal Twitter account. Thanks to so-and-so, and maybe reference them. Heather teaches us how.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

STEM Idea #1: Teach with Passion. And I think that sometimes as adults, especially when we start talking about STEM or STEAM or whatever buzzword it is that your school uses, we muddy the learning. And I think that’s one thing we’ve got to keep in mind when we’re talking STEAM or STEM or whatever acronym. Aaron: Yes.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 17, 2019

It’s also important to consider technology that can be used across subjects and curriculums; for example, robotics kits that can not only be used to teach core STEM subjects but can also be used in English, geography and history lessons to help bring subjects to life. Encourage collaboration.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 17, 2018

As we begin, I would like to provide some ideas that might just turn up the learning in the area of STEM education. Workshop: The Verbs of PBL, STEM and STEAM: Dewey Meets Technology. Ten Ideas To Take Students Beyond That STEM Activity… And Towards The Standards – Michael Gorman (21centuryedtech.wordpress.com).

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 12, 2018

Glen: I know that sounds crazy, but… I use the books now as a reference tool. The other ones have all been very good about allowing me to have autonomy, as long as I am following through with the scope and sequence that our PLC has developed and making sure that I prepare my students for the common assessments that we create.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 18, 2018

And you know, to be honest, by having them be a part of those provocations — they can bring them in, we can bring them in — and then from there, we can connect to other plans that we have in our curriculum and with regards to our assessment, right? You referred to the hashtag earlier. Vicki: Oh, what a remarkable idea.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Sam, 15, brandished the list of rules for the Cardboard Canoe STEM Lab. STEM is short for science, technology, engineering and math.) Children with his ethnic background are much more likely than their white peers to grow up in poverty , fail standardized assessments of math proficiency and skip college. That’s by design.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 26, 2018

Small, handheld devices like mobile phones are good for viewing static slides, but they’re epic for sending formative assessment data to the teacher and the whole class. Formative assessment is a not-so-secret of my own success, and the interactive display is part of this as I show certain items and hide others.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 16, 2024

It can also be used as a quick and dirty assessment tool, as the conversations generally reflect a level of understanding the teacher can use gauge mastery and plan further instruction. You can also see our sentence stems for critical thinking here for other examples (you don’t have to buy the materials to see the samples).

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based tool that lets you customize assessments with multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and more. It helps give them a frame of reference. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

That’s diving into STEM a little bit – you know Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – so rather than getting kind of… You know, sometimes you see these STEM activities. I’m going off on a little bit of a tangent here, but sometimes when you see those STEM activities, it’s like STEM in a box, right?

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