eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2022

Others on the team include Jennifer Robitaille, who has more than a decade of experience in research and evaluation to support SEL programs, Research Assistant Emily Parker, and SEL Strategy Developer Samantha Hagans. The DESSA has been rigorously tested and peer reviewed in more than 130 articles.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. Having a snapshot of real-time peer review data gave me more insight into how students were using teacher-developed criteria to evaluate one another.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Classroom teachers are increasingly aware of the wide-ranging and long lasting benefits of social-emotional learning programs—from improved academic performance to positive family and work relationships and better mental health. Checklist: 6 Questions To Ask When Evaluating SEL Screeners. Is It Truly Research-Validated?

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2021

Any teacher, even those without computer science expertise, can use CoderZ’s proven approach, which uses virtual robots to bring instruction to life. A SIIA CODiE Award win is a prestigious honor, following rigorous reviews by expert judges including educators and administrators whose evaluations determined the finalists.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

A SIIA CODiE Award win is a prestigious honor, following rigorous reviews by expert judges including educators and administrators whose evaluations determined the finalists. About the CODiE Awards The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. Most teachers simply don’t know how to teach online. Few teacher preparation programs in the U.S. That’s not unique to Auburn.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

In addition, each school district superintendent nominated a classroom teacher or district-level content supervisor to perform independent reviews. Members of the public were also able to review the materials online for two weeks. Michael Conley Elementary School, Tallahassee. CCC-SLP, Lexia’s chief learning officer.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A peer review team from Middle States member schools recommended VHS Learning for reaccreditation, and Middle States voted on the recommendation at its biannual meeting in Philadelphia. As part of the reaccreditation process, VHS Learning conducted a self-study before the peer review team’s evaluation.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

This shift has led to the growing adoption of co-teaching models, where general and special education teachers collaborate to meet the diverse needs of their students. Teacher 1: Provides targeted instruction tailored to each group’s needs, abilities, and skill levels.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2019

They are introduced to words in their “zone of proximal development” Teachers can monitor progress on the teacher dashboard, broken down by class and student. In response to this, peer feedback is growing in popularity as an approach that balances these two realities for the benefit of the student. Everyone wins.

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Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2022

Teachers often found it hard to monitor attendance and assess students’ understanding: one study found that the impact of the pandemic left students on average five months behind in mathematics and four months behind in reading by the end of the school year. So why has edtech so far largely failed to deliver on its vast potential?

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2018

Teachers can use Writable as a kind of project management platform for the writing process. With Writable, students learn to write to a prompt, provide and incorporate peer review effectively, and substantively revise their work based on feedback. What’s It Like? . Price : Free to try. Grades : 3-12. Rating : 4/5.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2021

Nor are they made aware of the peer-review process in which scientists in the field who were not involved with the research critically evaluate the study design and conclusions.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Yet schools are littered with products that have not changed anything beyond teachers’ desktop screens. When it comes to making decisions about edtech purchases, teachers and administrators are pretty much on their own. We recognize that conducting detailed reviews of evidence requires substantial time and resources.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

And professors have other ways to share their classroom tips: Publishing research about their teaching in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. The Cal State system hopes that the portfolios it’s requiring could turn out to be a rough draft for articles in peer-reviewed journals.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), NCII is comprised of national content and methodological experts who review assessments and interventions. SpringMath engages both teachers and students — increasing confidence and long-term understanding.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Because we know that becoming a successful writer is crucial to a student’s overall trajectory at school , work , and as a citizen , teachers must identify the tools that can best support writing instruction including the overlapping processes of drafting, review, and revision.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

The Ask a Tech Teacher team came up with fresh rules we think are less threatening and more geared to enabling students to enjoy this important writing style. This process of self-evaluation and introspection not only enhances the quality of one’s work but also cultivates a mindset of lifelong learning and personal growth.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

The previous summer, I started the Physics By Inquiry Summer Institute at the University of Washington, a three-year program where teachers learn how to run an inquiry-based classroom by engaging in inquiry-based learning themselves. The switch to inquiry-based learning required a dramatic shift from teacher- to learner-driven instruction.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2017

So how can we expect a teacher or administrator with limited budget and time to separate what works from what doesn’t? In the case of education technology, this misguided approach rarely addresses the real needs of students and teachers. Yet few can demonstrably support their arguments with strong evidence.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 4, 2019

The Chromebook App Hub — a new resource to help teachers find and integrate Google educational apps in the classroom — will launch later this year, Google announced today at SXSW EDU 2019 in Austin, Texas. Currently, teachers have to comb through millions of Chromebook apps to find the ones that best fit their individual classrooms. .

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

More recent efforts include a technology-focused teacher training course at the University of Michigan, and the EdTech Genome Project , a collaboration of 100-plus education organizations to better understand when and why certain tools succeed or fail in the classroom. The product team shares the research behind the design publicly.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 13, 2019

The problem teachers have with this approach is managing them. It is the logical evaluation of one student’s work by another using predetermined characteristics and measures. One important difference from teacher evaluations is that students don’t grade each other. Why peer feedback?

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2021

A SIIA CODiE Award win is a prestigious honour, following rigorous reviews by expert judges including educators and administrators whose evaluations determined the finalists. The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

But I suspect that one characteristic that would be common among all the stories is that these influential teachers had confidence in the importance of the content they were teaching, if not also some belief in their teaching abilities after having built up their capacity over some time.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

One of the ways we do this is by working hard to make teachers' lives easier during the busiest times of the academic year. We know that educators at all levels are responsible for making big decisions based on student evaluation outcomes. How Teachers Can Help Students Cope with Test Anxiety. 10 Tips for Testing Success.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

At the same time, schools and teachers are increasingly comfortable with the idea of games in the classroom. In fact, the JAMA Network just published a peer-reviewed report that “showed enhanced cognitive performance in children who played video games vs those who did not.”

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

According to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), the body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states, the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) evaluative framework consists of an assessment indicator. London, UK: Routledge. Gaynor, J.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

For teachers, Writable’s web-based tool offers customizable templates for common writing assignments (such as an argumentative or cause-and-effect essay, or a personal narrative). Teachers can select how the feedback process will unfold. The system guides pupils through how to offer constructive feedback to their peers.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s crop of winners demonstrated progress and innovation in student and teacher engagement, student retention, and teaching and learning efficiencies that resulted in cost savings. Teachers, students and parents report that they see great advantage to digital learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

After a writing fellow quickly reviews it, the score gets delivered to the student via the eCoach system. The student then has an opportunity to revise and resubmit the piece based on the combination of feedback from the assigned writing fellow, the ATA system, and peer review.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

According to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), the body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states, the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) evaluative framework consists of an assessment indicator. London, UK: Routledge. Gaynor, J.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Here is a good discussion on the pros and cons of Turnitin as well as options available, from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew: Reliable Turnitin Alternatives for K12. It was never a mystery that teachers get so many papers to check before a specific deadline that they’re often ready to drop everything and fall asleep at the end of the day.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

While some vendors publish white papers that seem to offer proof, critics argue that this evidence wouldn’t necessarily hold up if put through the peer review process of a reputable scientific journal. Algorithms can also help make admissions less focused on evaluating individuals in the first place.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As an educator, Jared Cotton has worn nearly as many hats as Dr. Seuss’s Bartholomew Cubbins—elementary math and science teacher, assistant principal, principal, district director of assessment and accountability, assistant superintendent, superintendent. At their age, Cotton remembers, he was writing for an audience of one: his teacher.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Encourage them to reflect on their classroom persona, their culture, their background, and their experience in creating their own content, such as discussion board posts and peer review feedback. Communicating with the online student: The impact of email tone on student performance and teacher evaluations. The Atlantic.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Last year, Sammy Spencer, a High School English teacher in Southern California, ran a pilot program using Revision Assistant in her school. We took a measured approach and piloted Revision Assistant in August 2016 with a small group of English and History teachers. We decided to give it a try. In fact, their scores did improve.

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