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How peer feedback can improve student writing skills

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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.

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Essential Tech Tools for the History Class

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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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New Teacher-Focused Program Launched to Drive Literacy Results for Alaska Students

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Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue. We have a long history of partnerships with Alaska school districts and are happy to continue those partnerships to provide high-quality professional learning to improve teaching and learning.”.

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SchoolStatus Selects 2024-25 Customer Advisory Board 

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Composed of education leaders with firsthand experience in K-12 districts and schools around the county, this board will play a pivotal role in shaping the company’s strategic direction and product roadmap, building on SchoolStatus’ long history of collaboration with educators. Representing seven U.S.

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Teaching With Technology in Higher Ed? Start With Relationship-Building.

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Every new version of Microsoft PowerPoint allowed instructors to embed more and more media and wow students with visually appealing graphics. Including student voices as active and important features of course design is a key component of a classroom based on dialogue, and this is what it truly means to be an inclusive instructor.

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New Effort Hopes to Make ‘Weed-Out’ Courses More Equitable

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The theory is that courseware has the potential to improve student outcomes because it tends to offer students personalized instruction and instant feedback on their work, Jones-Davis says. These tools can also help instructors track whether and how students are studying and completing assignments. history surveys.

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Grade Assignments with PDF Tools

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I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested? x Interested?