eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2019

If you find yourself wondering what that means for teachers or how you can integrate SEL activities into your curriculum and classroom, these 10 activities are a great place to start. Partner and group work. Group/partner projects are important to encourage communication, emotional awareness, teamwork, and accountability.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. One of the most significant benefits of PBL is that it addresses students’ questions as they learn, fostering curiosity and perseverance in learning as opposed to having to stick to a specific curriculum.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

Students will access a hands-on curriculum that engages their minds, and helps many kids gain a real love for reading. As In all elements of the Get Set for School program, teachers are supported with guided lessons and other learning opportunities.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. One of the most significant benefits of PBL is that it addresses students’ questions as they learn, fostering curiosity and perseverance in learning as opposed to having to stick to a specific curriculum.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2019

Exeter is a standards-driven district, so when we decided to focus on literacy, we knew we weren’t going to adopt a publisher’s curriculum. We brought in close-reading strategies, started an academic coaching program for teachers, and launched reading interventions and guided reading groups. Starting with the standards.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2025

Our rigorous curriculum is taught by Pennsylvania-certified teachers trained to provide virtual instruction in real time and is focused on providing all students the educational resources and out-of-classroom experiences they need to become successful, lifelong learners.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Our blended model starts with an engaging digital curriculum, one-to-one instruction, and small-group work. Every year we’ve expanded our use of the curriculum, and today use it in all seven of Neshaminy’s elementary schools. Teaching students to decode .

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2018

director of instruction, Cisco (TX) Independent School District (CISD); David Woods, director of curriculum and reporting, DreamBox Learning; and Robyn Sturgeon, professional learning consultant, NWEA, focused not just on the idea of collecting data, but on collecting only the data that is actionable. Phase 3 – Action.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

Flexible Grouping and Stations A major concern raised by teachers was how to move toward personalized learning when we had a scripted curriculum in core subject areas. Modifying the curriculum appeared to be a huge challenge; how can we possibly personalize something that is essentially pre-designed?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This gave way to more movement, flexible group work, and games. My curriculum at a project-based learning charter school was mine to invent. I got a small whiteboard and filled a cardboard box with dry-erase markers and extra writing utensils. My students were super engaged in learning. We had a great park nearby.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Regularly updating your IT plans and solutions The key to any successful classroom is ensuring the curriculum remains as up to date and relevant as possible. That saves valuable time and resources, allowing teams to solve issues for teachers and students in the classroom, at home, or elsewhere. This holds true for IT teams, too.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The curriculum and learning platform for the program is provided by Cisco, one of the largest computer networking companies in the world. “I’m the guy who’s fortunate, because I got some kids who really want to learn, who take it seriously and make it easy for me to come to work every day and do what I do,” Hines said.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

Reinforce the terms by asking students to draw pictures of them in their notebooks or use them in conversations during group work. To help schools incorporate students home language in the classroom, some digital platforms offer curriculum content and supports in both English and Spanish. for years to come.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2020

Natural leaders may emerge during group work as part of a team presentation assignment. To help alleviate the challenge of technology set-ups, Casio’s LampFree Network Model projectors offer a variety of features designed to reduce set-up time in the classroom and keep students focused on the curriculum.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2024

Further, you can group similar tasks to promote efficiency and reduce the stress of switching between different activities. Grouping work will also help you save time and encourage organization, especially since you will be dealing with several records. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

We also got colleagues pushing, putting forces on the system, and then parents and administrators and then the curriculum. So here we have in a thinking classroom: The students standing at the whiteboards in their random groups of three, one marker per group, working on these thinking tasks.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The primary way the nonprofit is doing this is through an AI curriculum it launched in May in Akron Public Schools in Ohio but which has already spread to six states and more than 2,500 students. I’ve heard you say the curriculum is more like TikTok than Scholastic. I call it “Gen Z curriculum design.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Group presentations. Group work is not a new concept for K-12 classrooms. Teachers can leverage classroom technology such as projectors, headsets, audio systems and more to prepare students. Here are a handful of ways teachers can make the most out of AV tools for 21 st century learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 6, 2022

Other questions on the form would ask for a rating of my teaching, participation in group work, and what activities they felt were the most engaging. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Keywords: Curriculum Redesign, Course Design, New Teacher Background Imagine you are a new instructor whose supervisor has just asked you to take over a course from a retiring colleague in the upcoming academic year. This may involve lectures, active learning activities, or group work to disseminate information and student learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

We used a combination of video chat, Slack and curriculum materials hosted on a learning management system. It is strikingly hard to pivot between large-group instruction and small-group work on online platforms. I typically build MOOCs, but this spring, I designed an online program for a cohort of 16 nonprofit leaders.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Leveraging its technology investments, OCSB got that insight—as well as a brand new geography curriculum that increased student engagement and collaboration. . Our class management tools foster online collaboration, group work and feedback. who is being left behind.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Another panelist, Nouf Alsuwaida, an international graduate student at New Mexico State, also stressed that it is important to give students choices in how they perform assignments, noting that some prefer to work in groups while others best thrive solo. Group work in face-to-face classes can be challenging as it is,” Parra said.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In northern New Mexico, Taos Academy Charter School , where one of us, Elizabeth LeBlanc, serves as the director of teaching and learning, uses a flexible schedule to conduct one-on-one and small group work in the afternoons and to offer on-demand support through Homework Hotlines in the morning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Those who want to stick close to core curriculum materials can easily import any of the materials and quickly make them more interactive. How can technology support teachers in making core curriculum materials more interactive and engaging for students? Does the teacher just need to spice up her core curriculum materials?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

And he says K-12 teachers frequently use materials from a range of sources including curriculum and textbooks from their schools and districts, resources they’ve gotten from colleagues or found on websites, and materials they’ve purchased from marketplaces such as Teachers Pay Teachers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2023

Government Accountability Office found that, for example, teachers found some success mitigating learning declines among English language learners using one-on-one check-ins with students and assigning small-group work in person. But Socol says more detailed information about these kinds of efforts is needed.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2019

After teachers design experience to fit the curriculum, students can participate as a group using their Chromebooks , instead of having to wait one at a time to use the classroom VR headset. Immersive technology is advancing, moving away from independent work toward collaborative exercises. .

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Part of preparing students for the real world is teaching them to collaborate and problem-solve while working with others in small groups. My classroom model includes a lot of group work where students complete tasks with a partner or in groups of four to six.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

Using the second/third grade pod as an example, Allen explains how two teachers start their morning together with a group of nearly 58 students who work on their own tablet devices. Each student is assigned an individualized learning schedule that involves group work or one-on-one interventions with a teacher.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2018

Some common themes that emerged: Personalized learning is instruction that offers pedagogy, curriculum, and learning environments to meet the individual student’s needs. Common design ideas were: Small group work. Group quizzing. Once we started talking, the ideas about instructional design structure kept flowing.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Computer science can be added to any core curriculum—math, science, language arts, social studies, history, or even art. Collaboration and group work is fundamental. But as students work on more advanced projects, the tasks can quickly get difficult. In LASD, computer programming using MIT’s.

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k12 Digest

MARCH 4, 2025

How have curriculum standards adapted to meet the needs of todays students? Curriculum standards have evolved to meet the needs of todays students by incorporating skills essential for the modern workforce, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and digital literacy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2020

Use the questions during a student-directed virtual (like Google Hangouts or Webroom.net) or in-person study group to prepare for an upcoming quiz or test. Students can screenshare the Quillionz questions and as a group, work through the answers. This is great for individuals, small groups, or an entire class.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

Both Tonja and I worked with separate groups of students. Her group focused on changing improper fractions to mixed numbers and my group worked on adding and subtracting mixed numbers. To make this work for remote students, we had them join our class via Zoom.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) will merge, beginning in January, a move that leaders hope will help to speed up the pace and smooth the process of innovation in education. It's inexcusable that we have so many education silos.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Digital platforms facilitate group work, enabling students to communicate and share ideas seamlessly, whether in-person or remotely. Educators should select tools that complement the curriculum, such as interactive simulations for science lessons or collaborative platforms for group projects.

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