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7 Things to Consider As We Return to Learn This Fall

The CoolCatTeacher

I hold a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education, earned at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. During my years of working in elementary education, I spent time as a classroom teacher as well as a school leader, all with the Sioux City Community School District in Sioux City, Iowa.

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Preparing Students for Online Assessments with Digital Literacy Skills

edWeb.net

Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ve also included courses from this blog post sponsor, Advancement Courses that meet the criteria for each topic. In her qualitative study, she found that when schools meet this challenge head-on, student achievement increased and behavioral challenges decreased. Online Assessment. Social-Emotional Learning.

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Reimagining Student Supports in a Year of Distance Instruction

Digital Promise

From our conversations with kindergarten through third grade teachers, literacy coaches, and principals in 17 elementary schools across the country, we highlight below three ways schools are reimagining student supports during a year of distance instruction. For many adults, assessment was for your grade [when they were in school].

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Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments

EdTech Magazine

“At the heart of formative assessment is the underlying goal of meeting students where they are in their learning,” notes an anonymous study from Digital Promise. Microsoft Forms is flexible enough to support formative assessments of an entire grade. Formative Assessments and Student Data Are Pathways to Adaptive Learning.

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How Co-Teaching Helped Our New Teachers Support Students, In-Person and Online

Edsurge

Eighteen years ago, when I was a student-teacher, I started out by silently sitting in the back of an elementary-grade classroom, watching, observing and taking notes. There were no iPads, no online assessments and no Zoom. For remote learners, we used an online assessment.) And there was no pandemic.

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6 EdTech Resources and Strategies to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Students

EdTechTeacher

Here are 6 examples demonstrating how emerging educational technologies can help us amplify assessment strategies and gain a deeper understanding of our students. Tool: iReady (Adaptive Math/ELA Assessment & Instruction). Kelly Servant ( @servantk1 ), Kindergarten Teacher at Hugh Cole Elementary School=.

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