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STEM, PBL, Common Core, and 21st Century Learning

wwwatanabe

Just a few weeks ago, I was asked by our Governing Board if some students and teachers could share about Project Based Learning at the next Board Meeting, and it was easy to say yes because PBL has found a home at AJUSD. What overlaps do you see between STEM, PBL, Common Core, and 21st century learning?

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Last Chance for this College-credit Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

Resources include videos, pedagogic articles, lesson plans, projects, and virtual face-to-face meetings to share in a collaborative environment. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. 4 virtual meetings. What You Get. 3 college credits. Office).

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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

Educators use a variety of resources to meet the needs and interests of individual students, including videos, images, games, non-fiction text and varying types of assessments. Teachers Know Best: What Educators Want from Digital Instruction Tools. To Meet Students’ Needs! What Do Educators Want? Educational Technology Support!

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MobyMax: Tablet + help differentiating instruction

iLearn Technology

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!! Really happy!

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5 edtech resources that support literacy in elementary school

eSchool News

It is the time of year where we analyze the data from the first two months of school, tweak instruction to meet student needs, and accelerate our efforts to help our students achieve as much growth as possible. It provides sentence starters and lessons are based on Common Core Standards.

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Resource Review: Mentoring Minds

Ask a Tech Teacher

Materials enable differentiated instruction, student practice, and teacher evaluation of progress. Professional development is available for teachers on core concepts like differentiation in the classroom, rolling out Common Core Standards, best practices for instruction, formative assessment strategies, and more.

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Most English lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers and other sites are ‘mediocre’ or ‘not worth using,’ study finds

The Hechinger Report

One of the most popular English lessons in the instructional marketplace Teachers Pay Teachers is a unit on how to teach William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” and claims to explain how to teach the tragedy of the star-crossed lovers in a fun-filled way while hitting almost 50 Common Core standards in five weeks.

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