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Assessment 4 months, 2 weeks agoI wanted to share another resource ” Total Participation Techniques” Making Every Student an Active Learner by Himmele.
The book provides easy-to-use alternatives to the stand and deliver approach to teaching. It provides different ways to engage students in active learning and allow them to demonstrate the depth of their knowledge and…[Read more] -
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Assessment 4 months, 2 weeks agoWanted to share a resource- 25 Quick Formative Assessments for a Differentiated Classroom.
This is a collection of quick, flexible, informal assessments that helps teachers take a snapshot of student learning. I was able to find the PDF version online of the entire book for FREE!…[Read more]-
Free!! and a great resource. Checks all the boxes. Thank you!!
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Jessica posted a new activity comment 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Scoring distinguished year 1 to distinguished year 2 still shows growth. However what if the actual score of the individual child decreases but it is still under the range of distinguished, is that still growth?
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Jessica posted a new activity comment 4 months, 2 weeks ago
I will share this with my Reading teachers at my school. Looks like an awesome resource!
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Accountability 4 months, 2 weeks agoI was able to attend the Assessment and Accountability conference in Louisville and a there were a lot of questions about growth and how it will be calculated. They said they were meeting with a group of people to discuss growth. I was wondering if there were any proposed changes to the growth aspect of accountability?
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What I have heard from the meeting is that Growth will be included still, but tweaks to how it is calculated may happen. Some question about whether growth points should be awarded if a student maintains or only if they improve. This committee will be meeting again to review possible models of change. More to come…
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Appalachian Renaissance Initiative 5 months agoBringing Programming to Life with Legos is a way to introduce my students to programming and robotics while fostering problem-solving abilities in the areas of Science and Technology. My students lack problem solving skills. Programming is an interactive hands on way for students to solve problems and is an important part of learning and…[Read more]
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Appalachian Renaissance Initiative 10 months, 1 week agoBringing Coding to Life with Robotics…. Students have been learning coding skills with the Dash and Dot robots. Many students even have these robots at home now. They had never been exposed to computer science or coding skills until I introduced these into our classroom. TIme was the biggest factor that I would run into with the implementation…[Read more]
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Assessment 10 months, 3 weeks agoAssessing with NearpodAn all in one program that I have implemented into my classroom this year is Nearpod. Nearpod allows teachers to create engaging learning experiences by providing interactive presentations, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated toolbox. I use Nearpod to create a presentation on the Math concept…
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Assessment 10 months, 3 weeks agoKahoot! In the ClassroomA formative assessment strategy that I use in my classroom is Kahoot! My students are 1:1 with chromebooks which makes this strategy easy to implement and fun for my students. Kahoot! is a tool for using technology to administer quizzes. It is a game based classroom response system played by the whole class in real time.…
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Fantastic and a lot of fun! I bet the students get competitive with this one.
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Jessica posted a new activity comment 10 months, 3 weeks ago
This is great! I have recently been having my students do their notes in google slides and they love it! And they will always have them in their Google Drive! No more “lost” notes.
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Accountability 11 months, 2 weeks agoI hope that I interpreted this webpage correctly. It contained a whole wealth of information.
While reviewing KY’s Uniform Academic Course Codes webpage, I only focused on those at the Elementary Level because I teach at an Elementary School. My first reaction was WOW! This would be ideal for students to have the opportunity to all of these c…[Read more]-
You have hit upon what seems to be the greatest concern with Opportunity and Access, which is resources and the variation between schools. The rich curriculum piece is asking for what is circled in the attached graphic at elementary and the course codes are to come from the listing.
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Jessica posted a new activity comment 11 months, 2 weeks ago
I agree… we are constantly being asked to do more with less. My only suggestion that is realistic is to use teacher talents and strengths and use those to maximize these goals.
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Assessment 11 months, 2 weeks agoAfter hearing Dr.Gusky speak last summer about Mastery Learning, it really opened my eyes to formative assessments. I have always used formative assessments but never as a tool to achieve Mastery Learning. This year at Flat Gap Elementary each teachers designed daily learning targets that are aligned with the standards. Then a formative assessment…[Read more]
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Jessica posted a new activity comment 11 months, 2 weeks ago
I am new to student data notebooks this year so I know that I have a lot of room to grow. Tony, what all is included in your data notebooks? Also what grades are they used with? We currently use them with 4th-6th grades, but would love for this to expand all the way down to K. I would appreciate any insights on data notebooks that you or anyone…[Read more]
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I use assessment data from various sources. We use STAR Reading data, Reading Plus data, MAP data, CERT data. We also use a student data notebook to allow students to do self-reflection and set goals. You can set this up using classroom assessments as well, but it has to be consistently used throughout the year to be effective.
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I look forward to sharing the results from my action research project with you at the FIREsummit! Swivl into Success allowed students to have access to pre-recorded lessons that I prepared using using the Swivl. Students utilized the recorded lessons as an introduction to a lesson, content delivery for those who were absent, re-teaching for […] View
Jessica I love this book!! It is so full of wonderful resources!!!
Love it! Immediately useful tools.