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Improving student achievement through choice

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With a renewed focus on the basics of literacy and math, a technology infusion, and a dedication to dialogue over rote memorization, here’s how we helped our students find the success and achievement they deserve. Starting with the standards.

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12 multimedia learning tools for the classroom

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Natural leaders may emerge during group work as part of a team presentation assignment. Multimedia learning tools engage students, and as we all know, students who are engaged in their learning often demonstrate higher academic achievement and take more ownership of their learning.

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10 activities to integrate SEL in your classroom

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Playing games in your classroom encourages students to interact with peers to achieve an objective, either collectively or competitively. Partner and group work. Group/partner projects are important to encourage communication, emotional awareness, teamwork, and accountability.

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In the wake of Chromebooks, education needs to focus on collaboration

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According to SAGE Journals , “Policymakers and researchers see small-group work as a way to improve attitudes toward school, foster achievement, develop thinking skills, and promote interpersonal and intergroup relations.” Laptops alone cannot meet this need, which can have an impact on students’ development.

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Curriculum trend: 4 ways to become more competency-based

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Later the teacher will review the groups work and provide them with feedback directed at the competencies they are working to achieve. If asked, the teacher would explain the goals of the unit and the related competencies the students are working towards: gather, use and interpret evidence from diverse sources.

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PBL isn’t used enough–let’s change that

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Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. Because students control their learning in the PBL approach, differentiation is simple, if needed at all, as students conduct their own learning at their own pace and present their learning in a mode that makes sense to them.

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COVID-19 Hit Schools Unequally, But Data Shows Learning Recovery Is Equally Slow

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Lack of Progress What that data doesn’t show is much success getting students, at the very least, back to pre-pandemic rates of grade-appropriate academic achievement. There were far too many students who were not getting what they needed to achieve dreams that they have,” Socol says.

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