User Generated Education

MAY 4, 2017

In order to support interest and passion driven learning (all – I mean all – of my students play video games) as well as address cross-curricular content area integration of language arts, science, and technology standards, I had my gifted elementary learners, grades 2 through 6, do a semester long project on video game design.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 12, 2018

In my previous blog on the subject , we explored some of the better online resources for the elementary school teacher hoping to blend their elementary school classroom. Why is digital PBL so rare in foundational and elementary phases? 1st Grade digital PBL: a case study. Why is that, indeed?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

At Dunn Elementary, kids who are struggling get extra time with second-grade teacher Sarah Bowling. The second-graders in Sarah Bowling’s class at Dunn Elementary were on a scavenger hunt to find “arrays.”. Related: Common Core ignores underprivileged students — and testing will lead to more achievement gaps.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Data — in the form of numbers, graphics and videos — can provide the hook that pulls students into lessons with real-world examples and applications. Related: Do we need a ‘Common Core’ for data science education?

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 5, 2014

Using a blog hits many important curriculum areas, such as differentiating instruction as well as meeting many Common Core Standards (see here & here for examples). Many teachers use the blogs for such things as an outlet for student free-writes.

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 14, 2022

Examples include: A story or a book that you used to love listening to when you were younger First books you were able to read by yourself Hobbies- any written works you could share that fit with those hobbies (e.g., Directions for doing this using Canva and examples can be found at: [link]. Common Core State Standards – ELA.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Due to the project’s cross disciplinary nature, standards were addressed from several disciplines: Common Core State Standards – ELA. Because I have students in my gifted program throughout their elementary years, I love seeing their excitement when we begin this project each year. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3

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wwwatanabe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Those of us who are transitioning to Common Core standards know that text complexity will affect the rigor in our classrooms. Teachers and librarians who use Accelerated Reader (AR) in their schools need to take into consideration that the AR levels (ATOS) are changing to adapt to the higher reading levels in Common Core.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2016

These include (rephrased from Common Core Writing Standards): dig deeply into subjects of interest to achieve better understanding and to build knowledge. Elementary-High School. Show students examples of serialized novels from authors they are reading in class. Elementary-High School. Serialized novel.

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Tools Common Core Twitter Laptops 226

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 24, 2017

Started in Australia and now popular in the US, it is available in English and Spanish and aligned with both Common Core State Standards and the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills. Playlists are also collaborative; for example, all teachers in a grade level team can edit and work off the same list.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Many of those same qualities are goals of the Common Core State Standards. The UDL Guidelines provide a deep dive into each of the principles to checkpoints that provide resources, examples, and research. Additional Resources referenced from Jackie’s blog: Introducing Design Thinking to Elementary Learners.

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

As anyone who has worked in education knows, creating custom lesson plans can be time-consuming, especially when teaching multiple grade levels (such as in a high school), subjects (such as in an elementary school), or students with varying academic abilities. Find online lesson plans that provide supplementary materials.

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The Jose Vilson

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Fast forward to now and many of the memes we’ve seen about Common Core math only underscore the disconnect between all these generations and the current one. Having a seat in college presumes that everyone at the college passed elementary school math, if not secondary math. Some of us even went to college.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Over the course of three years, starting in 2009, Kentucky’s state education commissioner, Terry Holliday, added 50,000 miles to his odometer, crisscrossing the state to bring each of the 173 school districts the message: Kentucky was adopting the Common Core. Related: Academic expectations around the country, updated for Common Core.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Flash to Pass –easy-to-use, elegant program designed to facilitate mastering the basic math facts learned in Elementary School. iFormulae –simple library consisting of various formulae, equations with their example. Content is aligned with Common Core Standards. Free GraCalc –A powerful, flexible graphing calculator.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey. Source: Levered.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Early algebra does appear to slightly boost enrollment in advanced math courses in the short term for example, more 10th graders taking Algebra II but the effect fades as students get older, he said. She got As in elementary school math but her grades fell once she hit algebra in eighth grade. And there could be a downside.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey. Students can see examples.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

He has two sets of videos specifically on the Common Core, in which he talks about the kindergarten and the third grade standards. Sylvia Majdoch, 9, pictured here during a remote school day at her home in Florida, is the fourth in her family to take on math using the principles of Common Core.

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eSchool News

MAY 4, 2022

At Scott Elementary School, our approach to education is defined as GAIN (Growth in Academics through Innovation and Neuroeducation), which includes multiple initiatives to ensure each student reaches their maximum potential. Indiana is one of that states that has not adopted Common Core State Standards.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 2, 2017

An example of what a story-based classroom looks like. Give me an example. Could you give us an example – I guess you just named one with printing children’s books, but – an example from the English hat that you wear? That’s really what story is about in my room. Vicki: So your crafting your classroom into a story.

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Classroom Examples Common Core Libraries 232

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 10, 2016

This web-based scalable program is available for elementary through high school students and can last anywhere from four weeks to a year. ” In fact, the C-STEM Studio algebra curriculum is fully aligned with Common Core state standards in mathematics. why bother. Why Bother.

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Robotics STEM Common Core Software 150

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

We’re not preparing teachers well in math, especially at the elementary level, says Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California, whose research focuses on teacher education. For example, cognitively-guided instruction is mentioned in the draft of the California math framework.

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User Generated Education

JULY 5, 2018

For example, if students are learning about circuits, they could wire cardboard model houses with lights and fans. . Example books that offer engineering or maker education challenges include: The Long Walk to Water – [link]. Example Maker Education Lesson Plan.

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Education Common Core STEM Examples 182

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 22, 2016

An example is the way we teach math content in elementary and middle schools. And yet, despite Common Core and other efforts, our procedural emphases still persist in many, many math classrooms. ” The Common Core standards are supposed to be about bigger ideas and fewer of them? Related Posts.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 17, 2016

For example, in South Fayette School District outside Pittsburgh, Pa., Ravenswood City School District is developing new curriculum to integrate making into Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards. And these aren’t isolated examples. In East Palo Alto, Calif.,

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Education with Technology

JUNE 29, 2014

Here are the ten examples I showed at my English + Common Core + Mobile ISTE 2014 Poster Session: Based on CCSS Anchor Statements: L.2 6 Present mobile recorded news to two different groups (HS class and elementary class). English Common Core Mobile Activities. 7 Integrate mobile content.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

. “Interactive Middle School Math 7” This middle school math online textbook aligns to the Common Core State Standards. High school math – “Interactive Geometry” This math digital textbook also aligns to the Common Core State Standards and covers a complete year of geometry.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

Esteves, age 10, is a fourth-grader at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark, N.J., In last year’s statewide Common Core-related PARCC test, just 24 percent of the students at Esteves’ school met grade-level expectations in reading and writing, a category called English language arts and literacy.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. We use our co-teaching situation as an example for our students to see how people must work together in a respectful manner.

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How To Differentiated Instruction Common Core Groups 140

Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2015

By highlighting examples of research-based product development, we aim to help all stakeholders use scientific and user research to improve student outcomes and better understand learners. The mathematical content, pedagogy, and scaffolding to the common core is also research-based, led by Dr. Theodore Chao.”

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SpeechTechie

JUNE 13, 2014

There are many terrific apps that can be used to build semantic networks, categorization and description (take Bag Game , Naming TherAppy and Describe it to Me as a few examples), and though these skills provide the foundation for expanding vocabulary, this is sometimes not what the person was asking for. Do you mean semantics instead?

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Common Core Elementary iPad Examples 91

Education with Technology

JUNE 25, 2014

In my ISTE Sunday 8-10 am poster session, I demonstrate many diverse mobile activities to help students achieve the English Language Arts Common Core Anchor Statements through mobile devices. The mobile activities focus on free common tool apps that are available on both the Android and the iPad.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

More recently, widespread changes in academic standards, like the adoption of the Common Core standards and concern over low reading scores , further increased the rigor of kindergarten to the point that it has been referred to as “ the new first grade.” Kindergarteners now are expected to count to 100 by ones and tens, for example.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 31, 2017

I am a 6th-grade teacher at Crestmore Elementary school in the Colton Joint Unified School District, in Southern California. So for example, our rubric was based off of a number system, so 4 being the highest; so 4, 3, 2 and 1. Here’s the tweet that got us interested in what Greetzel is doing with her sixth graders.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2018

The boom and bust of Common Core standards have left their mark, just as new concerns over media literacy and privacy are doing currently. As a director for Common Sense Education , I’ve enjoyed something of a ringside seat, having edited close to 1,000 edtech reviews written by expert educators. and guided demo approach.

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