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April Engagement Ideas: What to Do When Testing Disrupts Learning

Catlin Tucker

When state testing season arrives, classroom routines can quickly fall apart. Its easy for learning to take a backseat, but it doesnt have to. In this blog, I’ll share six strategies that encourage students to explore, create, reflect, and connecteven during the testing season.

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Educator: These are “My Tech Essentials”

eSchool News

[ Editor’s note : “My Tech Essentials” is a new monthly feature on eSchool News that highlights the choice of ‘must-have’ technology used by one tech-savvy educator; with the hope that other educators might also find these peer-tested tools useful. Our 1:1 approach to technology has allowed us to move into an era of blended learning.

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Would You Rather: Transfer and Apply

Catlin Tucker

Option 1 Science: Design a new experiment to test a scientific hypothesis Science: Write a research paper on an environmental issue Math: Solve a set of problems and explain your solutions in a video tutorial Math: Develop a math game that helps others learn about a mathematical concept or process English : Write an essay analyzing the symbolism in (..)

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Creating Inclusive Classrooms with Co-Teaching and the Station Rotation

Catlin Tucker

The students not at the teacher-led station are engaged in meaningful, student-centered activities: Designing a Lab or Experiment: Some students are tasked with designing their experiments to test a hypothesis related to chemical reactions.

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Inside Google’s NYC Teacher’s Lounge

Edsurge

“One of the topics that were really important to educators was ‘self-directed learning,’” says Garrison. So her team took the theme and broke it down into five parts: flipped classrooms, blended learning, back to basics, executive functioning skills, and student self-assessment and self-regulation.

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Are We Rushing Education Change? The Case for Slowing Things Down

Edsurge

Education is known for endless change, and over the years that’s taken many forms: testing modifications, curriculum adjustments, new committees to join, fresh acronyms to learn. Instead of asking the class to write a whole essay that demonstrated proficiency with analytical writing, I asked for two full paragraphs instead.

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Is Paper Your Worst Enemy? It’s Time to Take Advantage of Paperless Grading

Gaggle Speaks

How many copies of essays or homework assignments do students give teachers every week? As more schools move towards 1:1 learning environments and attempt to reduce paper use, teachers are seeking new options for assessing student work digitally.

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