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5 big takeaways from redesigning learning spaces

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To that end, we turned our attention to rethinking and redesigning our classroom learning spaces to fit the 21 st century needs of our students. We formed a committee of these stakeholders as well as community members to evaluate our needs. Asking the Right Questions, First. Our data in year one showed that 1.)

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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

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Based on the focus, peer observations can be classified into two models: formative-developmental and summative-evaluative. Challenge teaching assumptions : Through peer feedback and reflection, faculty can identify and modify ingrained teaching habits to enhance student engagement.

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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

Faculty Focus

Based on the focus, peer observations can be classified into two models: formative-developmental and summative-evaluative. Challenge teaching assumptions : Through peer feedback and reflection, faculty can identify and modify ingrained teaching habits to enhance student engagement.

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Fostering metacognition and AI integration for ELLs

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This article explores the role of metacognition in enhancing learning outcomes for ELLs and demonstrates how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can support metacognitive growth. Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation. and Che Guevara.

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How This Company Gives Voice — and Value — to Virtual Collaboration

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They can be used to provide feedback, co-author, narrate and even host asynchronous meetings. Steve Muth Muth: The moment we launched, we got flooded with all of this feedback, all coming from teachers. This one student was given an assignment to evaluate a piece of art, and they did it, but they did it wrong.

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As Expectations of Teachers Change, Administrators Rethink Their Observation Practices

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Planned or random, evaluative or not, the atmosphere changes. But as teachers change their practices to meet their students’ needs, how are administrators changing the way they observe and provide feedback to teachers? To some administrators this shift didn’t look like a engaging learning environment—it looked like chaos.

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First MakerBot Innovation Center at a high school opens

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The MakerBot Innovation Center will help us teach these skills as it offers a very different, more hands-on learning environment that gives students more freedom to experiment, learn from failure and progress their thinking.”. This faster output makes a profound difference in how students are able to work on their projects.