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Need Inspiration Designing Station Rotation Lessons for your Math, English, History, or Science Class?

Catlin Tucker

So, I’ve created the following idea documents brainstorming learning activities that teachers in math, English, and history may find helpful as they plan for their station rotation lessons. History: Station Rotation Ideas. When I work with history teachers, I adapt and use many of the strategies I employed in my English class.

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How peer feedback can improve student writing skills

eSchool News

The art of writing, invented roughly 5,000 years ago, represents a blip in human history. Time and technological constraints, however, often prevent every instructor from providing intensive feedback. This is why providing spaces for peer writing feedback is a vital component of the educational experience. In the words of S.

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4 edtech tools that can transform student teamwork

eSchool News

Nearly every great advancement in human history involved multiple people working together to accomplish a common goal. I especially like using it for collaborative timelines, maps, and peer feedback. The tool comes with real-time tracking of student contributions and engagement while also allowing for individual or group feedback.

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Building Better Rubrics: Empowering Learners Through Effective Rubric Design

Catlin Tucker

Rubrics also provide students with feedback, helping them understand their strengths and areas where they need to improve. Second, it allows teachers to provide more targeted feedback to students based on their performance on each criterion. This feedback can help students improve their skills and knowledge over time.

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Essential Tech Tools for the History Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, former teacher and now education consultant, has suggestions for apps to help the history class: Essential Tech Tools for the History Class. As a history teacher, I used the summertime to experiment and attend online professional development technology sessions and tech camps.

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Hands-on learning will help Gen Alpha reach new levels of technical innovation

eSchool News

Generation Alpha will likely be the most technically innovative generation in history, but what will they do with that knowledge? Encourage collaboration, feedback and showcasing work in a safe environment A safe learning environment is crucial for students to learn and thrive successfully. The reactions they get make a huge impact.

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Explicit instruction: Students need more of it

eSchool News

By explicit instruction, I am speaking of the I-do, we-do, you-do strategy, where the teacher models a concept or skill, engages students in targeted practice, checks and corrects understanding, and then gives students more independent practice, with more checking for understanding and corrective feedback.

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