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Explicit instruction: Students need more of it

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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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The Greatest Enemy of Creativity in Schools Isn’t Testing. It’s Time.

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A former art teacher, White is now an education consultant who criss-crosses the continent giving workshops, coaching teachers in her local Saskatchewan district and writing books. But the kind of assessment I talk about most is dialogue with others, or feedback, and then dialogue with self, or self-assessment.

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Stanford Experiments with Virtual Reality, Social-Emotional Learning and Oculus Rift

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Feedback for such an individualized subject, Emoti team members say, should be personalized, which is difficult for teachers with large classes. The idea behind the simulation is that it provides, through biometrics on stress levels, more individualized data and feedback on a student’s responses than a teacher could reasonably gather or give.

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Faculty Mentoring: People, Place, and Purpose 

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Ask effective questions and write appropriate, open-ended, nonjudgmental questions of lessons; that’s praxis. We enroll, identify teachers’ goals, listen, ask questions, explain teaching practices, and provide feedback. Educational Leadership.p.18-22. 2011, The Educational Forum, West Lafayette, Vol. What Good Coaches Do.

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How to Assess Learning in a Pandemic

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We basically don't grade until we're required to at the end of the semester, but there is a lot of feedback. Tony Crider: I came at it from the perspective of the physics education research, and looking at it as a way to say, How do we give tests at the beginning and test at the end to try to gauge what they learn over time?

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Faculty Mentoring: People, Place, and Purpose 

Faculty Focus

Ask effective questions and write appropriate, open-ended, nonjudgmental questions of lessons; that’s praxis. We enroll, identify teachers’ goals, listen, ask questions, explain teaching practices, and provide feedback. Educational Leadership.p.18-22. 2011, The Educational Forum, West Lafayette, Vol. What Good Coaches Do.