Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2019

We must explicitly teach these skills and give students time in class to practice them. Starting the year with routines designed to encourage students to develop their metacognitive skills can yield deeper learning all year long. 4 Strategies Designed to Drive Metacognitive Thinking. #5 What are you grading and why ?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2023

Did you know that a 5th grade teacher is expected to guide students to mastery of 200 standards each year? Consider implementing the following categories and grading them on a scale of 1–5: Building Block: How much future learning is dependent on this standard? Given a typical school year of 180 days, that’s 1.1 standards a day!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2023

Did you know that a 5th grade teacher is expected to guide students to mastery of 200 standards each year? Consider implementing the following categories and grading them on a scale of 1–5: Building Block: How much future learning is dependent on this standard? Given a typical school year of 180 days, that’s 1.1 standards a day!

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2023

In a series of blogs, I’ll be exploring each thinking routine and providing suggestions for how teachers across grade levels can harness the power of these thinking routines with students. The post Unleashing Metacognition: The Power of See, Think, Wonder appeared first on Dr.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What is wrong with grades? Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What is wrong with grades? Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The time of exclusively grading based on results is behind us; assessing reflection is now crucial for advancing education. This brings the benefit of a more goal-aligned classroom and develops stronger metacognitive skills than ever — an essential skill for thriving in an AI-driven world.”

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 4, 2024

For teachers, the adoption of math journals can also lessen the burden of managing and grading piles of worksheets. Instead of having teachers collect stacks of student work to grade for accuracy, I’d like to put that responsibility on students. I want them to think critically about their work.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This is not a quiz score that will go in a grade book but rather a pre-assessment tool designed to help the teacher understand and assess the students’ prior knowledge on this topic. If the teacher wants to find out what the students already know about the structure and properties of matter, they could use MagicSchool.ai to generate.

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Tunstalls Teaching Tidbits

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This post focuses on high-yield strategies for addition and subtraction in first grade. This strategy provides the means to flexibly compute in first grade. Gamified activities motivate students to practice essential strategies for addition and subtraction in first grade. No more searching for something to reinforce the lessons.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

Fostering autonomy and responsibility can lead to significant growth in students’ academic and metacognitive skills. At first, students would just choose what they got the best grade on, without further explanation. But soon, students began to choose assignments they enjoyed or that they worked hard on.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Interdisciplinary learning allows students to acquire integrated perspectives and solution-focused strategies, leading to deeper assimilation of knowledge, the development of metacognitive skills, and critical thinking (Ivanitskaya et al.,

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Interdisciplinary learning allows students to acquire integrated perspectives and solution-focused strategies, leading to deeper assimilation of knowledge, the development of metacognitive skills, and critical thinking (Ivanitskaya et al.,

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Teacher Mood

MARCH 24, 2025

When I taught 4th grade math, I had students write what they knew about a rectangle from the perspective of a rectangle. For example, when I taught 1st grade, non-standard units of measure fell on the pacing guide in October. Build Metacognition Skills Metacognition is thinking about thinking.

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