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JANUARY 27, 2025

Chronic absenteeism accounted for 27 percent of the drop in math scores and 45 percent of the decline in reading scores from 2019 to 2022. With lectures recorded and assignments posted online, attending class began to feel optional. During the Covid-19 pandemic, this narrative flipped.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. Through their work with KIBO, the pre-service teachers discovered they already had more STEAM skills than they had initially realized.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Research shows fewer students are starting the year prepared for math and ELA, fewer are on target to learn to read, and there are more gaps in phonics, and sophisticated math skill comprehension. Using Kami, teachers can create assignments with their LMS, share class-wide, and offer feedback in real time.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A well-structured digital study plan can help alleviate this stress by providing a clear path to manage assignments, study sessions, and personal time. Numerous online resources exist where you can find lecture notes, study guides, and other helpful materials. homework, lecture notes, practice tests).

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

In college, assignments were purposeful, designed to deepen my understanding of the material rather than simply reinforce rote memorization. These assignments provided valuable opportunities to fail, seek help, and ultimately grow from the experience. These assignments werent just practice. The struggle was the entire point.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

SplashLearn is an easy-to-use COPA-compliant, Common Core-aligned math curriculum for grades Kindergarten-5th that uses game-based learning to teach mathematical concepts. Note: There is an option where parents can assign work to their children but this requires a fee-based account. As with the best learning apps, parents are welcome.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Similar concerns have prompted community colleges to reconsider their own versions of entrance assessments: the placement tests they’ve traditionally used to determine whether students are “ready” for college-level learning or should instead start their pursuit of higher education in remedial math or English classes.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

The United States ranked 36th in math and 13th in reading among 79 countries and regions that took the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018. Five years ago, I ditched whole-class lectures in my fifth grade brick-and-mortar classroom in favor of small group rotations.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

When I think about high school, I vividly remember my 11th grade math class. As the teacher lectures, I’m scribbling down everything that I see on the board, verbatim, in my notebook. Even as adults, we often do the same, we just don’t assign a letter grade for contribution. We still assign value, though.

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APRIL 27, 2020

I definitely worry about some of my teachers and the level of burnout they’re feeling,” said Stacey Roshan, a math teacher and director of innovation and educational technology at Bullis School in Potomac, Md. As we are assigning work to students, giving feedback might be the most important part right now,” Roshan suggests.

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MARCH 30, 2020

It’s not at all an easy shift to make overnight, particularly for those who aren’t used to sitting on a computer recording or listening to lectures. This is the reason why the mute button exists.” — Marissa Fusi, High School Math Teacher, Central Union High School (Imperial, Calif.) Heck, I don’t even like doing that.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

He sees that few of the students in the course have bothered to do the interactive exercises they were assigned for homework. In fact, he predicted that the changes he’s experimenting with this semester might be jarring to students accustomed to lecture classes. The mission? At Your Own Pace’.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, when assigned to work in groups during class, students who may have trouble focusing or even hearing the discussion due to the noise level may ask the professor for permission to work in the library or outside. Cold or random call.

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AUGUST 16, 2017

The idea is that, instead of assigning students in traditional rows of desks, they would have a choice as to where they sit. I went from predominantly whole-group, teacher-led lectures to a more student-centered, personalized way of working with kids. I bounced around a few sessions but settled into one called “Flexible Furniture.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

He accelerated two years ahead of his classmates in math and is now doing freshman-level work. Math comes naturally to me,” he said. Those who are struggling slow down and try different methods, like exploring math or science concepts through art. Students who excel move on. He says test data back that up.

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MAY 1, 2017

We took our respective subjects—science and math—combined forces, and created one super-class: what our students affectionately call smath. We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction. This cuts down on daily planning time.

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JUNE 4, 2024

In it, Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, which has been building a tutoring tool with ChatGPT, sits watching his 15-year old son Imran learn a math concept from a talking version of the chatbot running on an iPad, which can also see what the student is typing on the tablet. It was making math errors. It could be used to cheat.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Students at a community college could supplement their math class with lectures from MIT. People can now work through a series of lectures while they commute or complete coursework on a mobile phone between shifts. The risk is that we leave out students who can’t pay in the equivalent of the large lecture hall.

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MARCH 17, 2018

To accommodate this teaching style, our classrooms are being redesigned from larger, lecture-style spaces into smaller, collaborative rooms conducive to group work. Since we implemented our PBL model, data shows that in one year (2016 to 2017), reading comprehension scores increased 8 percent, math application increased 9 percent.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

By adopting the adaptive tool, we were able to completely integrate the lab and lecture during the class meeting times. Students are assigned lessons in the adaptive course that correspond to the material being covered in the lab and/or lecture. Established in 1963, North Carolina’s.

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MAY 9, 2023

Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing. Her score on that exam was so low, in fact, that she realized she had no chance to get an A in the course, no matter how well she might do on future tests and assignments. So what do you do now if you're not giving letter grades on assignments?

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OCTOBER 30, 2016

If you’re targeting a working parent trying to get through an online course after work, it helps if she thinks through contingency plans in advance, such as “If my kid gets sick then I will block off one hour on my work calendar the next day to get my assignment done.” Apply the IKEA effect. People overvalue things they make themselves.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Students earned points for every assignment that they completed to minimum specifications and for quizzes. Students may revise and resubmit an assignment that does not meet minimum specifications for full credit. Students may revise and resubmit an assignment that does not meet minimum specifications for full credit.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

After a little bit of lecture and homework for a couple of weeks, you give an assessment. And especially in areas like math or science, you're usually going to be now building on the gap. And remediation isn't that they're going to take an 11th grade or 12th grade type of math. They wouldn't even have to take remedial math.

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

When I first began flipping my math class in 2010, the ability to screencast, upload video to the web and have students watch lectures at their own pace was exciting and innovative. Over the years, I have grown to rely on both interactivity and monitoring in the videos I assign for homework.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, when assigned to work in groups during class, students who may have trouble focusing or even hearing the discussion due to the noise level may ask the professor for permission to work in the library or outside. Cold or random call.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Students are grouped by academic need so teachers can review topics with struggling students while the rest of the class works at their own pace, often on a playlist of exercises assigned by Canvas (grades 6-12) or Google Classroom (K-5). It build rapport in a way traditional lecturing simply cannot.” PARCC Scores-Grade 5 Math.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

Top teachers know excelling is less about assigning a grade than what is learned. Anhil was much more knowledgeable than any other 6th grader about the solar system but his math skills were seriously deficient. He long ago declared math as too difficult and thus avoided it. I used those traits to buttress his math learning.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

. … Unfortunately there are things like stereotype threat, in which the research will show that historically marginalized populations, when they go in there thinking, “Oh, I’m not good at math because of X, Y, or Z …, ” that stress of a high-stakes exam will, statistically speaking, have a negative academic effect on them.

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JULY 10, 2016

These solutions promise to broaden access to quality education, engaging learners who might not make it through impersonal introductory lectures. While Anbar admits the online shift changed his role from a lecturer to more of a coach, he’s adamant that he—not technology—maintains ownership over the class. Promises and Pitfalls.

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Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As students move into middle and high school , it becomes increasingly challenging for them to maintain excitement and enthusiasm for subjects like math and science. Assigning career-themed projects is another way to make a real-world connection to science.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Every student is assigned a tutor who is available to answer questions if needed. These include hard science, math, and math-intensive classes like macroeconomics. get started learning by doing three things: 1) watch the videos, 2) download the PDFs of the chapters, and 3) ask questions of your assigned tutor.

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JULY 6, 2016

There were worksheets, multiple choice tests, and lectures in front of the classroom. Have your own story about how math, ELA, or assessment tools have impacted your instructional practice? High school teacher MJ Linane used to describe his social studies class at Old Rochester Regional School in Mattapoisett, MA as “traditional.”

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A second monitor can be added to the setup for the instructor to view any lecture notes or to serve as a teleprompter that can be controlled through a laptop connected to the Lightboard CPU module. Example could be applied to a composition assignment. Example could be applied to a written assignment. References Bradbury, N.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Some teachers who would ask you to go to theirs made the class tedious, because you had to sit there for a hour and a half while you listen to this lecture when you've already got the concepts. Amanda Regan: Virtual High School called it “asynchronous,” so there's no set time where you have to sit in on a lecture or anything like that.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Students earned points for every assignment that they completed to minimum specifications and for quizzes. Students may revise and resubmit an assignment that does not meet minimum specifications for full credit. Students may revise and resubmit an assignment that does not meet minimum specifications for full credit.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

The knowledge typically encompasses highly focused topics such as reading or math or biology. Arguably, they are best used for learning course material in subjects like math and coding where literacy skills and class discussions aren’t typically core objectives of the course material.

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