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Peer Feedback: Making It Meaningful

Catlin Tucker

Feedback is how students feel seen and supported. It is also how we communicate to our students that we value the process over the product. When we give feedback as students work, we signal that the work they are doing is important, and we care about their progress. Peer Feedback Choice Board. I really liked __.

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Why we use a multilingual districtwide platform for personalized communications

eSchool News

With more than 15,000 students across 25 different schools in central Washington state, one of our biggest goals coming into this past school year was to develop a feature-rich communications system that was the same for teachers, schools, and the district.

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Building Better Rubrics: Empowering Learners Through Effective Rubric Design

Catlin Tucker

Rubrics also provide students with feedback, helping them understand their strengths and areas where they need to improve. At whatever stage, communicating with peers about proposed solutions is an important part of the design process, and shared ideas can lead to improved designs.

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Can VR help multilingual students better grasp science concepts?

eSchool News

Key points: Virtual reality offers learning beyond just verbal communications 3 AR/VR resources that nurture student curiosity Reaching the 4Cs with 3D and virtual reality For more on VR in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Multilingual students face unique challenges that can hurt their performance in school. In the U.S.

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For English Learners to Thrive, Community and Culture are Necessary

Edsurge

Most of my students immigrated to the United States within the last year, and all of them were English learners, thus making it difficult for them to complete the activity. Unfortunately, the sentiment within my supervisor’s response is not unique to the curricula design for English learners.

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50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom – Free Giveaway!

Catlin Tucker

Now, I get to experience how Google Classroom makes it easier to communicate with students, manage student work and provide meaningful feedback. I annotated my copy because I am a nerdy English teacher! Last year, I could not use Google Classroom because only GAfE schools had access to Google’s new online platform.

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

Edsurge

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. My challenges with the feedback load were officially impacting my health and family life. Students were getting the feedback they needed faster.

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