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Alexandria Mooney
 
Top 5 Tech Tools for the Classroom
December 7, 2016

Being a technology teacher, I try to look for tools that engage my students. Some of these tools lend themselves very well to being the foundation of a project, while others serve as brain breaks or class activities.

  • Education Technology
 
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Nancy Boyles
 
Making Sense of Close Reading in the Intermediate Grades
November 30, 2016

I learned more about close reading and saw that it truly did push teachers and students to a whole new level of rigor. I learned there are a few principles and practices that when applied well will make teaching the process of close reading achievable for teachers and the outcomes of close reading meaningful for students.

  • General Education
  • Literacy
  • Professional Development
  • Struggling Readers
 
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Michelle George
 
Online Resources for Mastery Learning
November 16, 2016

The concept of learning mastery is simple and nearly any educator would agree is desirable. The rub comes in the implementation. Mastery learning is hard work. Fortunately, today’s Internet resources provide a plethora of resources to help make the goal more attainable.

  • Assessment
  • Education Technology
  • General Education
  • Professional Development
 
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Bea Moore Luchin
 
Show Me What You Know—The Power of the Graphic Organizer
November 2, 2016

In order to achieve success with the use of graphic organizers, the teacher has to select the appropriate organizer, understand it, plan for how the organizer will be used to promote thinking, and develop appropriate questions and tasks.

  • Assessment
  • General Education
  • Math
  • Struggling Students
 
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Janet Macpherson
 
Context and its Use in Interpreting Assessment Data
October 26, 2016

Although context has many applications for helping to understand unclear situations, it also can be an important guide for educators seeking to compare and evaluate student progress.

  • Assessment
  • General Education
  • Literacy
  • Struggling Readers
 
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Janet Macpherson
 
Context of Assessments
October 19, 2016

Context is so important that we teach students how to use clues to understand new vocabulary words when reading. Context makes a difference when understanding ambiguous situations that might be easily misunderstood if you don’t understand what happened most recently in the passage or you don't have the culturally relevant information that helps us understand what we are reading.

  • Assessment
  • General Education
  • Literacy
  • Struggling Readers