Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

Alignment of Data Standards for Describing Learning Objectives When applying the Google Maps metaphor to learner navigation, the points of interest on the map are competencies—the things that a person can learn, such as skills, knowledge, dispositions, and habits of practice. K-12 learners.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2021

One included academic standards for my state. The other was filled with the English language development (ELD) standards. My job was to ensure that my students, all of whom were categorized as English learners (ELs), met these grade-level and proficiency standards by the end of the year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Every morning I neatly placed a worksheet in front of each child’s chair, following the example of my colleagues. Across the country, kindergarteners are pressured to meet academic standards that both teachers and experts say many kids are developmentally not ready for. However, play and academics are not mutually exclusive.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Whatever you call them, a growing body of research suggests these non-academic, social-emotional competencies deserve our attention. Studies have linked social-emotional learning (SEL) programs with improved focus, stronger relationships, lower anxiety and higher test scores. Assessing the assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Prove this by asking students for personal examples of health problems that upended their lives. There are good reasons why worksheets have been the backbone of assessment for decades: Students write or type the information (and get the benefits of note-taking). You can find her resources at Structured Learning. BrainPOP Jr.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The principal's students were in an alternative setting and the main delivery and assessment of content came from an online course platform. The staff fully recognized the need to provide the students with a richer learning environment than simply watching videos that led to multiple choice quizzes and eventual unit tests.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

An increasing number of schools —including charter and traditional public schools—are making a similar move to ditch traditional grades in favor of a more robust approach to assessing students’ skills. Whether they call it competency-, mastery-, or standards-based grading, the movement aims to improve students outcomes sans As, Bs, and Cs.

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Linways Technologies

MAY 14, 2020

Autonomous colleges, on the other hand, are granted freedom and in some or all the academic matters. They can have their own syllabus, right to conduct exams, and set up assessment patterns. The student’s ability to apply the learned concepts or their creative ideas is never given a value in an exam. Why Autonomy?

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Also, be sure to check out our tips video for parents , as well as our detailed review of Seesaw's potential for learning. Seesaw is a digital platform where teachers of all grade levels and content areas can create learning tasks and assignments for students. This allows teachers to assess student progress over time.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

A Project-Based Learning Spectrum: 25 Questions To Guide Your PBL Planning. I’ve been talking with a friend recently about project-based learning, which is leading to a TeachThought Project-Based Learning framework hopefully sometime next week. (Or A Project-Based Learning Spectrum: 25 Questions To Guide Your PBL Planning.

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Gradelink

MAY 13, 2021

In the traditional grading system, letter grades are given for core subjects based on assessments like quizzes, tests, projects, homework, and more. All these assessments are scored and put into the gradebook and are averaged into a student’s letter grade. This method is quite user-friendly and familiar to all of us. Time management.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning. Edtech initiatives that reduce teachers to the role of facilitator often overlook the important role the teacher plays in activating rich learning experiences for students. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

With all of the digital tools available to teachers these days, developing learning experiences should be a cinch, right? In an ideal world,” muses Ralyea, “your state would produce a machine-readable standard translated into an easily consumable format. What’s Out There Now. He wants to be a catalyst for that merger.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

It proved useful in finding teachers to help develop our lesson plans, assessments and professional development. We learned this lesson early on when we had employees with dogs barking in the background, kids running up to them to sit on their laps, and, yes, even a parrot on screen. We covered topics such as number of U.S.

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Education with Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2015

(tuttle, https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/classroom-grades-dont-reflect-student-learning/ ). The final grade in a course or even a ten week grade probably does not reflect the actual academic learning.These grades may not reflect the academic standards (Common Core, standards or proficiencies) for that course.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

There is also the US Department of Education’s Learning Registry, which contains resources created by various parts of the US Government. As one example, there are a tremendous amount of high quality resources produced by various organizations supported by the U.S. Forty-two states and Washington, D.C.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2018

It’s hard to think of another example of two more different higher education cultures placed under the same name. It’s clear that the two institutions remain very different places, even as she named a few examples where the two are beginning to work together. Another example is we now have one one alumni association.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Unruly Studios (Boston) revolutionizes learning by combining coding and STEM education with physical play. They adopted a similar strategy in Maryland, offering schools quizzes that aligned to the state’s high-stakes assessment. Companies that succeed understand the importance of partnerships. If you want to go far, go together.”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 9, 2015

Meeting these standards can be done by doing less, not more. In this post, we’ll look at three effective ways to do this: integrating curriculum, combining test prep into daily learning, and cutting topics. First, let’s look at what the standards mean by more “depth.” Combine Assessment Prep Into Daily Learning.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

And we're serving more and more students who are just learning English. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

While it has been derided by educators for decades as incapable of truly measuring understanding, and while performance on such exams can be noticeably improved simply by learning a few tricks, the multiple choice question may have a larger, less obvious flaw that disrupts the tone of learning itself. The Tone of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. That was the district’s first year taking the PARCC assessment, a college- and career-readiness test mandated by the state of Illinois, and the results were dismal, though not exactly surprising.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 21, 2021

The Definition Of Combination Learning. Combination Learning is a new teaching and learning strategy for the 21st-century. The definition of Combination Learning is learning through the flexible combination of two or more learning components. Remember, these are just examples. by Terry Heick.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. That was the district’s first year taking the PARCC assessment, a college- and career-readiness test mandated by the state of Illinois, and the results were dismal, though not exactly surprising.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

The Common Core standards, a set of English and math guidelines adopted by more than 40 states, challenge many commonly held beliefs — including how best to teach children to read. Some of the benchmarks are just way above the children’s heads; I honestly don’t think their brains are ready for some of the standards.

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MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

There’s a wide age range for learning to read,” said Nancy Carlsson-Paige on KQED’s Forum program. Carlsson-Paige is professor emerita of education at Lesley University and co-author of the study “Reading Instruction in Kindergarten: Little to Gain and Much to Lose,” which criticizes the Common Core standards for kindergarten.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Most charter operators did not come close to hitting their targets, predicting, for example, that they could move students from 50 percent proficiency to 80 or even 100 percent in four or five years. It’s stuff that we learned.”. It’s stuff that we learned.”. But that wasn’t a thing then. But that wasn’t a thing then.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. This is the role that would typically be used for accepted facts like multiplication tables and vocabulary lists that will be used as the building blocks of other learning.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 15, 2022

Grades are not primarily based on "one-and-done" assessments, and early missteps can be corrected and improved without cost to the student's grade. Won't this just allow students to not take assessments seriously? One-and-done assessment is clearly a terrible way to measure student learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

For example, specific policies regarding academic standards, testing requirements, and charter school authorization caps can give rise to specific types of products. Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, etc.). The diagram below uses a hypothetical example to illustrate how such a heat map might look.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 22, 2015

While schools (hopefully) work to update themselves and the way students learn within them, many parents have to work with what’s available to them. Some common examples: Ask them what they did today. Some common examples: Ask them what they did today. How exactly is learning personalized in your classroom?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. The April issue’s theme was “Nontraditional learning.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Instructor Alexis Hollingsworth, 21, uses build-and-learn and colored pattern blocks to teach a 4-year-old class about shapes in Beary Cherry Tree, an early learning center in Metairie, Louisiana. What would it take to make sure more of Louisiana’s youngest children are learning? Photo: Della Hasselle.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Being in a New York City alternative high school serving at-risk kids , my students were academically behind and at risk of getting sucked into the school-to-prison pipeline. I can say with confidence my students didn’t learn anything in advisory in my first two years teaching it. STEAM , the CCLS ELA standards, etc.),

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Thanks to a work-based learning program offered through nearby Harwood Union High School, Woods has been able to earn math and science credit by working 15 hours a week at the garage, instead of sitting in a classroom. “I’m Related: In this New Hampshire high school, internships shape the future of learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. What does a modern library look like? What are the emerging technologies in a library?

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