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Building Better Rubrics: Empowering Learners Through Effective Rubric Design

Catlin Tucker

Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair. This helps to shift the focus away from the teacher-student relationship and towards the quality of the student’s work, promoting a more objective and fair grading process.

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6 ways tech simplifies school communication and engagement

eSchool News

School-to-home communications is a fairly common sticking point for elementary school districts. Were both former teachers, and we largely relied on catching parents in the school drop-off line or sending reminders home with students when sharing vital school-to-home communications. Facilitates communication and engagement.

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Who is doing the work in your classroom?

Catlin Tucker

Communicates with parents about student progress. Why not tap into them as resources and make them do some of the planning, teaching, troubleshooting, assessing, and communicating with parents? Designs projects. Troubleshoots technology hiccups. Assesses student work. I think this is fairly normal.

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Is It Fair and Accurate for AI to Grade Standardized Tests?

Edsurge

The larger question is about how to accurately communicate to the families, where a child might have written an essay and gotten a zero on it, how to explain it. Especially in the absence of clear communication about what it is.” The Texas Education Agency did not respond to EdSurge’s request for comment.

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Middle school movies that support SEL in the classroom

eSchool News

Science Fair. Communication, Curiosity, Perseverance, Teamwork. Following different student groups competing in an international science fair, this documentary highlights the perseverance and teamwork required to make it to the top. Communication, Compassion, Empathy. Far from the Tree.

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7 global learning tools you can use right now

eSchool News

iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Laptops, tablets and smartphones connect users with information in less than a second, and because mobility has increased our connectivity, we’ve increased our connections with all parts of the world.

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Prioritizing teacher well-being can help schools retain talent

eSchool News

While all administrators should consider it a priority to arrange fair pay, it’s also important to look at what other resources you can offer. Encouraging Communication. One of the common points of concern for many teachers is the lack of meaningful communication with administrators. This isn’t just on a practical working basis.

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