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4 Strategies Designed to Drive Metacognitive Thinking

Catlin Tucker

If the teacher is the only person thinking critically about learning goals, progress, skill development, curriculum design, and assessment, that is a missed opportunity. The document asks students to: Rewrite the standards in language they can understand. Assess where they are in relation to mastering specific skills.

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Class Size Matters: Understanding the Link Between Class Size and Student Achievement

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Some of the long-term results of the students who were in the smaller classes include: Higher student achievement levels in grade seven language, reading, science, math, and social studies classes. More positivity reported about participating in learning.

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The digital-first district where OER meets iPads

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For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. In high school math teacher Joe Sowinski’s classes, technology has changed class structure. By and large, it’s working.

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How to Engage Your Students With the 12-Minute Rule and Quizzes They’re Meant to Fail

Edsurge

In high school, I played sports, but another important part of my life was band and musical theatre. By marrying those two things together—the curriculum design, which is very engineering-like, and the classroom performance, which is very artistic—you get the John Branch combination. I think the students are entertained.

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The All-Black and Latino School Where Every Kid Can Code

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The public charter school provides every student with a Chromebook and purchases licenses to online curricula for subjects including English language arts, math and computer science. The curriculum, which is aligned to the AP Computer Science framework, is free, but teacher training is not. She recently moved to D.C.

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Who’s on the List of Most Popular Edtech Organizations and Jobs?

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In fact, the word “curriculum,” whether followed by “writer” or designer,” appears to resonate relatively strongly with viewers. Take the five most viewed job postings from last year: “Curriculum designer” at NoRedInk. Curriculum solutions designers job” at Cengage Learning.

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

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Bolstering the technological advances necessitated by COVID-19 imperatives, the initiative’s primary purpose was to build knowledge on VR and encourage a multipronged approach in teaching and learning to enhance curriculum conceptualization and the entire education life cycle. & Abadia, R. link] Finley, A.

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