Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Instructors need to show their students how an assignment will help them grow, says Darren Minarik, an associate professor at Radford University focused on special education and social studies education. That was one of my favorite classes.”

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 200

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment. Use them to begin longer narrative essays, begin class discussions, or introduce elements of fiction in your language arts class. What are your goals for high school ? What would you do?

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. Special educator Kareem Neal uses empathy as a tool to improve communication and connection with the students in his self-contained classroom and their families.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I can’t love an essay, but I can love my food,” he says. That means getting special education classifications and individualized education plans (IEPs). Rather than being stuck at a desk, forced to sit still for long hours, shuffling boring papers, at culinary school he’s physically active. I can feel. I can love.

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Schools Students Counselling Special Education 195

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I was working as a special education teacher in Cobb County School District at the time. The clear discrimination towards the special education population really bothered me, mostly because I could see that it was systemic and possibly out of my reach to fix. This is especially true for at-risk students.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 133

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

She was a special education teacher. And we were watching old teaching videos from, like, 2005, and they were expecting us to write essays about what we learned, how we can integrate that with our teaching. And I just remember having a lot of fun, fond memories and, you know, being in that class. It was in elementary school.

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Teachers Elementary School Elementary School Math 174

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Smarter Balanced, by contrast, required students to manipulate some shapes and objects with a computer mouse and to type in some of their own answers, including numbers, phrases, sentences and whole essays. As a result, the Smarter Balanced tests lasted much longer than OAKS tests.

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Testing Teachers Math Essay 124

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus. A Title 1 school with 80 percent of students on free and reduced lunch and 20 percent in special education, staying laser focused on ensuring students have the resources they need to thrive is always top of mind for Robert.

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Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 327

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Letting students record and embed their voice responses directly into information fields in online forms does wonders for ELLs, younger students who can’t read yet, special education students, and students who have difficulty reading. Holzweiss asked. Evolve your programming.

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Schools Languages Language Reading 246

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The 25-year-old teacher is herself a student—an apprentice, in fact—and must use that quiet period to crank through some homework, study for an exam, start drafting an essay or take a quiz. Only, for Mercedes-Perez, that sacred time is cut short. For one assignment, she observed her students and assessed their personality types.

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Achievement Education Coaching Attention 143

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

There are multiple-choice questions, coding exercises and two essay questions. ExceptionALLY Pronounced as two words (“exception - ally”), the Atlanta-based startup offers what it dubs a “TurboTax for special education.” The test costs $19 to take, and CSPA can waive the fee for those with financial difficulties.

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Multiple Choice Questions Testing Questions Essay 105

eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This is great if you’re using it to write an essay and turn it in. And you had a one to one that way a lot of the special education dynamics of IEP meetings. Let’s look at it. Appropriate to use when is it. When is it not OK as long as your original voice is coming through? Not so great. How have we gone from?

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Writing Attention Essay Achievement 143

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2024

The teacher was Jen Manly, who had many titles but also many ideas about how educators can make group work better — and dare I say, enjoyable — for participants. By Katerra Billy This describes the frustration of a special education teacher lacking one of the most basic elements of a class — as the headline says, a classroom.

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Essay Lecturing History Group work 161

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

My boss at the time, who brought me into education, told me not to worry. I was teaching special education, and my students would have behavior problems but it was nothing I couldn’t handle. Defeat was built into the expectations of the special education classroom, and it was hard for me to see any viable escape.

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Attention Special Education Curriculum Testing 143