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Classroom2classroom - 0 views

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    Build a new classroom library or add to an existing library with books bundled by theme, Lexile® level, DRA™ level, grade level or other reading standard.
 Lisa Durff

Kerpoof | Disney Games - 0 views

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    Primary grade students love this tool!
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7 Assessment Tips and Tools to Know What Your Students Are Really Learning @coolcatteacher - 0 views

  • What are the most common mistakes teachers make when assessing students?
  • How can you improve your current assessments to better meet standards?
  • Why should formative assessments be more reflective?
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  • Why just giving number grades as feedback doesn’t work and what to do instead.
  • How to give feedback that helps students the most.
  • How can you grade less and get better results?
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Recommended iPod Apps (Grade Levels & Subjects) Escondido Union School District - iRead... - 0 views

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    iPod Resources by grade level.
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followclues.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    Use this hand out with the recommended 1st grade or 4th grade books to reinforce the prediction reading strategy.
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10 Skills Modern Teachers Need | Edudemic - 0 views

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    "A Teacher's Toolbox Learn more about 10 of the most important skills that teachers need in the classroom today. Each of these can help educators of any grade level teach better."
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Teach Kindness | Practical Theory - 0 views

  • Create spaces for students and teachers to know each other over time.
  • Create more opportunities for students to feel part of a community in their classes.
  • implify the grading systems and do away with individualized class rank.
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  • Have students identify and solve real problems.
  • Create channels for positive interactions between home and school.
  • Have shared spaces
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Phonics Games! - Thank God It's First Grade! - 0 views

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    "Before we play phonics games, there is always a direct teaching lesson where I explain the phonics rules and sounds and some manipulation of the words as well. Often, I will use letter tiles to build the words and then change out the pattern for a new pattern. I have my students read both real and nonsense words with the pattern I have taught."
 Lisa Durff

Four Common Core 'flimflams' - The Washington Post - 0 views

  • oppose the Common Core. Although conservatives lead the way, in the bluest of states, California and New York, more people now disapprove than approve of the standards
  • where is the research to support: close reading, increased Lexile levels, the use of informational texts
  • Ontario’s standards are far more in line with the research on early childhood development,
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  • In 2010, when the standards were being rolled out, 500 early childhood experts –pediatricians, researchers and psychologists–found the early childhood Common Core standards to be so developmentally inappropriate that they called for their suspension in grades K-3.
  • Flimflam # 1: The Common Core standards are internationally benchmarked and grounded in research.
  • Flimflam # 3: The Common Core will close the achievement gap.
  • According to a report by the Carnegie Corporation, the Common Core may double the drop-out rate
  • decrease the four year graduation rate to 53 percent
  • Flimflam #4: The problems with the Common Core standards can be fixed at the state and local level.
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    Durff uses Google Reader, but there are many aggregators. Use them with students and us them for grading.
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    RSS is Really Serious Stressrelief for Educators - relief your stress !
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Welcome to TeachingBooks - 0 views

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    Use this site to augment that reading series in the elementary grades.
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Gamequarium: Math Games- Subtraction Games - 0 views

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    Math integration site
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Harnessing the Incredible Learning Potential of the Adolescent Brain | MindShift | KQED... - 0 views

  • part of the reason school is so boring for teens is that it doesn’t challenge them
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      Someone once told me I could not offer that as a reason for a young man's behavior. I ignored this advice (yes I did) and challenged the young man to rise above the class academically. He did.
  • Teachers often say their students struggle with work that is below grade level and must catch up before they can take on more challenging tasks. But scaffolding can ensure that even the catch-up process is challenging in an interesting way.
  • mindfulness in schools can improve self-regulation, the single most important quality to leading a successful life.
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