Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2024

They already visit web-based edutainment sites as early as preschool, use ‘Instagram’ and multi-player XBox games in elementary school, and have made text messaging and Facebook their communication of choice by Middle School. Those who embrace it find the opportunity to differentiate instruction. Why does it matter?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Performance Suite is built to bridge these gaps and facilitate meaningful and immediately actionable connections between assessment data and curriculum delivery. “At Liberty Elementary School in Tulare, Calif. With ready-to-teach lessons and a real-time planning assistant, Performance Suite facilitates differentiated instruction.

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Hapara

APRIL 11, 2022

They are a cost-effective choice and make differentiating instruction and personalizing learning easier. For example, on OER sites, educators can find different lesson plans for the same learning goal to help them differentiate instruction. Lower elementary math: 2.NBT.B.7 Differentiation or personalization.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

By using data to guide instruction, building community ties and focusing on targeted help for students, some districts are seeing remarkable turnarounds in academic performance. Our faculty and staff have access to data showing where students stand, as well as tools and resources to help turn potential into performance.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2022

It easily identifies struggling readers, monitors progress, and automates differentiated scaffolding for your readers. Harvard researchers have reviewed how students read, teachers receive actionable data, and provide feedback to students to improve reading. So, here comes Readlee. First, let’s give an overview of Readlee.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Key points: Literacy is critical for students–and elementary years are a pivotal time These online tools help students develop essential literacy skills See related article: How efficacy studies improve literacy instruction For more news on literacy, see eSN’s Innovative Teaching page Fall is the best time of year in Montana.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Through school visits and panel discussions with TDSB officials, district leaders explored local policies and systems, the use of data for equity, and professional development and training for teachers and leaders, keeping an eye and ear toward what they could bring back to their own school communities.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

And so when it came to tackling the challenge of data interoperability—the seamless, secure, and controlled exchange of data between applications—UCSD #1 took a wide-angle approach. Showcasing student growth: UCSD #1 advanced data interoperability using the design thinking process and collaborating closely with vendors.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

And so when it came to tackling the challenge of data interoperability—the seamless, secure, and controlled exchange of data between applications—UCSD #1 took a wide-angle approach. Showcasing student growth: UCSD #1 advanced data interoperability using the design thinking process and collaborating closely with vendors.

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iLearn Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2014

One of the things that I really appreciate about MobyMax is the mix of direct instruction and the ability for students to discover learning on their own through discovery-based instruction. As a teacher, the continuous progress monitoring makes formative instruction that much easier. The MobyMax tablet is $69!!

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Kids in the middle, too, may never move out of their comfort zones; a Goldilocks level of math instruction never gives them opportunities to productively struggle and develop their own growth mindsets. At New Mexico’s Farmington Heights Middle School , teachers use game-based learning to personalize instruction.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

How often do you hear your fellow educators talking about data, data, and more data? This will not be another article about how you need to use data to drive your instruction. The additional beauty in formative assessments is that we can use the data without always having to assign a grade to it.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

For instance, in an elementary science class, a teacher designing a unit focused on ecosystems can empower students by allowing them to choose an ecosystem they are genuinely interested in exploring. When students have a voice in their education, they become more engaged and invested in the process.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction. Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Instead of differentiating instruction by giving different practice problems to different students, which is a common approach in U.S. Better teachers might have volunteered to teach them. These teachers had extra training, and were given an extra non-teaching period each day. The school handled mixed abilities in an unusual way.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The study examines the literacy impact of elementary students using Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) in fully remote and hybrid instructional environments during the 2020-21 school year. Core5 is an adaptive learning program that accelerates the foundational and advanced literacy skills for students of all abilities in elementary grades.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

Our efforts seem to be paying off, as all of our elementary and middle schools are rated by the state as either “shows progress” or “excels” in terms of reading and math achievement. Teachers use this information to differentiate instruction in small group settings in order to enrich, remediate, or reinforce grade-level skills.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

BOSTON (June 8, 2021) – Lexia Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, announced today that Florida’s Commissioner of Education has approved Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) as curriculum in elementary intervention courses. Michael Conley Elementary School, Tallahassee.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 9, 2019

Next-generation assessments can also provide data and visualizations that assist teachers in gaining a more accurate and nuanced understanding of each student. You Need Data to Personalize Learning. Tool: iReady (Adaptive Math/ELA Assessment & Instruction). Data from iReady helps differentiate instruction in Math.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

From its powerful PK-2 early literacy curriculum to its math literacy tools to their many professional learning opportunities, Waterford.org offers helps teachers and parents’ partner on supporting the developing literacy and math skills of elementary school students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

LDOE is committed to helping educators find interventions that are data-driven, individualized for students, and systematic. To support local school districts’ decisions on purchasing instructional materials, the LDOE evaluates products on program design, instructional design, usability and support, and other criteria for high quality.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

But for others, the teacher is still central to the picture, using technology as a means to support differentiated instruction. School leaders hope that the support and understandings shared by people they view as experts will help teachers learn how to perfect personalized-learning instruction. explains Ashkenas. “If

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Hapara

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math mystery puzzles An elementary educator in Texas created interactive math activities for learners. In Google Sheets, the classes collect data about the weather where they live. This gives them a global learning experience and a chance to compare and contrast data. How do you learn how to use Google Sheets?

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

And when we walked in and saw that one of the Allendale Six were implemented with fidelity—students doing research on technology, peer collaboration, differentiating instruction to meet students' needs—we celebrated with gift cards donated by local businesses and teacher of the month awards. How did you support your teachers?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Core to the charter network’s vision is a belief that students can be empowered to make choices that direct their learning, with guidance from teachers and access to real-time data. The outside of Truesdell Elementary in Washington D.C. The inside of Truesdell Elementary in Washington D.C. Photo Credit: Jenny Abamu.

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Personalized Learning Differentiated Instruction Elementary Data 132

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Middle school students are still at the elementary level, and upper elementary students are still figuring out the basics of numeracy. For that success to happen, however, ELLs need individualized, differentiated instruction to close the math gap—but challenges abound.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

Teachers have to interpret screening results manually, one student at a time, to differentiate instruction. Teachers have to interpret the results student by student to differentiate instruction. 30 And differentiated instruction can only serve one or just a few students at a time. Evidence Based Practice.

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Educational Technology Guy

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Prodigy takes game-based learning a step further and provides teachers with a powerful set of reporting and assessment tools that allow them to easily identify trouble spots, differentiate instruction, and better manage classroom time. I believe that students have improved their confidence in all areas of the math program.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The use of differentiated instruction to individualize each student’s learning experience is becoming more common in today’s elementary classrooms, but creating meaningful differentiation for a typical class of 25 students or more can still be a challenge. Use is Becoming More Sophisticated. About the Presenters.

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Buncee

MARCH 15, 2021

I know I have seen the benefits of Buncee in the classroom, but I know the true validity is in the actual data. In her text, Differentiated Instruction Made Practical , Harvard’s Dr. Rhonda Bondie teaches about ABC + Motivation which is certainly connected to the power of Buncee. It truly is powerful to watch! Meet the author.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is intervention time at Vitovsky Elementary, where nearly 60 percent of students come from low-income backgrounds and a quarter are learning English. A “sound wall” at Vitovsky Elementary features different speech sounds, breaking up vowels and consonants. “Sap,” Simpson said. Little progress has been made in recent years.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

What is particularly striking is that these schools, public elementary and middle schools across Massachusetts, are truly joyful places; you can see it in the enthusiasm of the students and the smiles of their teachers! The first is differentiated instruction. Use of data comes in sixth.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2023

“This type of highly differentiated support has been totally game-changing for our students who struggle most with reading, allowing them to build their skills and confidence,” said Sam FanFan, Principal at Burncoat Prep Elementary School , one of the Worcester schools that is participating in the program this year. The Ignite!

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2016

The data dashboard has become more sophisticated, but it is still only one lens through which educators should view their students. When Amber Teamann was a teacher in Garland, Texas, seven years ago, her use of data to help guide her instruction was fairly limited. A lot has changed since then.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. Differentiated instruction was conceived in the 1950s. What can that look like?

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iLearn Technology

APRIL 13, 2015

One of the major benefits of using technology in the classroom is the ability to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of every student in every lesson. These students enjoy measuring, calculating, and organizing data. link] Spreadsheet and data collection tools. |Kelly Tenkely|. Originally posted at The Apple.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. AI and Data Literacy With the AI revolution in full swing, teachers’ digital proficiency kit should also include AI and data literacy. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Leijten, P.,

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