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My Greatest Teaching Problem Was Feedback. Here’s How Research Helped Me Solve It.

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I implemented writing reflections to help students recall their feedback from prior assignments and collaborated with a colleague to develop a teacher guided peer review system, which eventually yielded an app called Floop that made the peer review data visible and simpler to manage.

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Creating Inclusive Classrooms with Co-Teaching and the Station Rotation

Catlin Tucker

Teacher 2: Review and Targeted Support – Homework Review and Intervention Note: Teacher 2 reinforces and builds on prior knowledge by reviewing homework and providing targeted instruction, ensuring students understand the content before moving on to new material.

Teaching 395
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How to Bring to Life the Science of Reading

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The science of reading distills vast knowledge into practical strategies to help all students become proficient readers, emphasizing a comprehensive approach that includes word recognition, language comprehension and bridging skills. With practice, sight word recognition allows instant recognition of common words.

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Increased Screen Time May Indicate Family Stress, Pandemic Study Suggests

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The early findings suggest that children’s “screen time” reflects parents’ stress levels and access to resources, not their philosophy or knowledge about child rearing. One is that trying to reduce screen time by coaching (or scolding) parents—currently a popular approach—might not do much other than make people feel guilty.

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Want to Boost Reading Scores? Build Silent Reading Stamina.

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Once students have acquired sufficient word knowledge such that they can readily identify 150 or more words on sight, they must spend a great deal of their time reading silently. Gehsmann says in today’s knowledge economy, literacy is a basic requirement for getting and keeping a stable job in just about every industry. (At

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This Company Wants to Help You Hire for Skills, Not Credentials

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It’s called Degreed Skills Certification, and it scores people’s existing skills in various categories, including writing, sales, coaching, c# programming, photography and leadership. According to Blake, the process behind the scoring “is one of anonymous peer and expert review” based on “adaptive comparative judgement.”

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How to Demonstrate Confidence in Your Teaching

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Our strength may already be worn down by going through a challenging promotion and tenure process, or after years of having our research evaluated by peer reviewers who sometimes reject work without giving effective feedback; or reading negative comments from students on our course evaluations. He also happens to be my husband.

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