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saxman_51

The achievement gap and Latino students - 1 views

www.apa.org/...achievement.aspx

Intervention Academic Performance Standardized Test Scores Data Achievement Gap Growth Learning

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  • saxman_51 on 16 Mar 16
     
    By pretty much any measure, Cupertino High School in northern California is a successful place. Perched in the heart of Silicon Valley, Cupertino sent 85 percent of its senior class to college in 2009. Hundreds of its students choose among a dozen advanced placement classes each year.
ashleighclarke

Strategies to Guide ELLs in Learning Math: Research Implication and Strategies - 1 views

(Week 7: Ashleigh and Jennifer) This journal article is accessible through the link provided by the UMUC Library. The article 'Strategies to Guide ELLs in Learning Math' provides suggestions on ...

EDTC615 Spring2018 Research mathematics

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scottie_jarrett

Top 10 Evidence Based Teaching Strategies - 8 views

www.pinnacle.org.au/ence-based-teaching-strategies

615 Spr15 article K-12 Evidence Based teaching strategies week9

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  • scottie_jarrett on 02 Apr 15
     
    Week 9: The article gives the top 10 evidence based teaching strategies research by Shaun Killian. These 10 strategies gives teachers steps to fine tune lesson plans and SMART goals for your DAP process. Shaun list these practices and gives a brief explanation for each practices. Most teachers care about their students' results, and if you are reading this article, you are undoubtedly one of them. There is no doubt that teachers make a difference to how well their kids do at school. For teaching strategies to be included on this list, they had to: Be supported by hard research, instead of anecdotal case studies or untested theories Have a substantially higher effect on student results than other teaching strategies Be able to be used on a wide range of subjects and in every year level
  • bcarri on 25 Jun 15
     
    Response to Intervention's great promise is often undercut by the potential difficulty of implementation. However, evidence based teaching strategies are useful tools for the educator in a system that constantly changes as new theories and standards arise. This article gives an overview of the most effective teaching strategies, of which most can be fairly easily integrated into lessons. Some of the most intriguing strategies, are the ones that do not involve actions to take but an adjustment in teacher focus, such as nurturing metacognition and allowing flexible learning time.This serves as an effective reference and perhaps, reminder of good teaching methods, though a few specific examples would be all the more helpful. In the comments, the author offers a little more clarification about the strategies and their rankings.
melrichardson21

The effects of a digital formative assessment tool on mathematics achievement and stude... - 0 views

doi.org/...j.compedu.2016.12.001

EDTC615 SPRING2018

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  • melrichardson21 on 04 Apr 18
     
    Week 9: Melissa and Claire This journal article is accessible thought the link given above by accessing the UMUC library This article was about how a randomized experimental design was used to examine the effects of a digital formative assessment tool on mathematics achievement and motivation in the classroom. Experimental schools used a digital formative assessment tool while control schools used their regular teaching methods and materials. The data used included standardized achievements pre-posttest data, student motivation survey data, classroom data observation data, and student log files. The results of the tests revealed positive effects on student achievement and motivation. The digital formative assessment tool positively impacted achievement and motivation. It also helped teachers to differentiate instruction. The more the students used the digital tool the higher their achievement and motivation for mathematics improved. Reference: The effects of a digital formative assessment tool on mathematics achievement and student motivation: Results of a randomized experiment By: Janke M Faber, Hans Luyten, Adrie Visscher Doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2016.12.001
margarita_lp

Adapting Curriculum to Learners' Needs | EL Education - 11 views

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EDTC615 Strategies Fall17 week5 video

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  • margarita_lp on 13 Oct 17
     
    My SMART Goal: "By the end of the numbers unit, 60% of students in the Special Education program in MS Spanish 1A - Period 2 will achieve 80% or higher on each formative assessment including listening, speaking and writing assessments." - This resource video on adapting curriculum to learners' needs could assist in differentiation the strategies and activities done in class for students with varying special needs to close their achievement gap since they are not currently receiving many of their needed accommodations.
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  • cillanes1 on 22 Oct 17
     
    The SMART Goal I will be using: "By the end of the four week close reading intervention, 80% of students will be able to demonstrate improvement in their writing ability by composing a paragraph with less then 5 grammatical, spelling, and structural errors. Students will meet with the teacher three times a week for a 30 min session". Planning Protocol: I would evaluate this video as a Rigor and Relevance of 4 as each student has an opportunity to engage with the content through differentiated activities suited to their individual learning needs. I feel this particular video was very useful in demonstrating various strategies for differentiating the lesson content to make it accessible to learners of various levels of proficiency. These methods could be extremely helpful in differentiating the content of my SMART Goal to ensure that every student has a opportunity to improve their writing skills according their level of skill.
  • proman11 on 11 Oct 18
     
    Planning Protocol: Impact on Learning would be a good reflection on this video because the instructor is differentiating the lesson based on the data she has to make sure each student has some type of impact on his or hers learning. I think differentiating the lesson will have a huge impact on each students learning. The SMART Goal that I will be using is "Students will be able to solve an on-grade level math task, that will require them to respond and defend their work to explain their reasoning 3 out of 5 times by the end of the 1st marking period." I think this video will be a great instructional tactic because the lesson is differentiated based on the student. With the data the instructor has, the student will be able to receive more help that will help them respond and defend their work on grade level. With students that need more help with sentences.... a sentence starter can be used to help support them.
  • scarey11 on 14 Oct 18
     
    From the Planning Protocol Rubric I choose to relate this video to the dimension "Rigor and Relevance": At the Highest level-Students think and work. All students in this video are being challenged in very different ways this leading them to think and work independently and collaboratively. This teacher does a phenomenal job at differentiating her material on all levels. All students are doing the same work on the reading assignment however the avenue in which they give there response are different. She is able to give each student the support they need ahead of time so that students don't feel singled out. By doing this the students often feel empowered to be able to complete the assignment because they know the supports they need will be available to them. This also allows the teacher to go directly to the students who need extra support because the higher students have the challenges they need as well to not become board with the lesson. The SMART Goal I am focusing on this is one of my team members "After three weeks of targeted instruction, students will increase their pre-assessment scores by 3 or more points, or 75 percent or higher on the post-assessment" Our team could defiantly translate the instructional tactic used in this video to the above SMART goal. The teacher in the video is targeting specific learning goals in her instruction by reaching students at their specific needs and helping guide them all in the same direction teaching the same topic just in different ways. The above SMART goal is all about targeting instruction for the PARCC assessment to improve students scores. All students will have to take the same assessment however the supports they need along the way will be different.
  • daverogoza on 17 Oct 18
     
    This video had some great ideas especially about differentiation that could be used for me to achieve my SMART goal of 100% pass rate for standardized English Language tests amount a targeted group. The teacher's method of pre-arranged assignments to prevent students from feeling singled out is very clever, and especially important for students in that age group. I could see myself adapting these strategies for use in many different classes. From the dimension of 'teacher friendliness' I do think these tactics are not necessarily teacher friendly, but they sure seem to be worth it if it means positive student outcomes.
  • toladipo on 17 Oct 18
     
    EDTC615 Fall2018 Group 6 Dimension: Teacher Friendliness My SMART target goal is the percentage of students who will score 90% will increase by 80%. This means that 80% of the students will score 90%. The instructional tactic I will use from this video is teacher friendliness. In the video, the teacher displays high level of support, and maintenance with the students. She showed how she provided materials to the students and go over the materials in the class. She also does some great prep work as well. She was seen going around the students table to provide supported as needed. This is very relevant tactic that can be used by my team. The data we both presented covers teaching Microsoft suite-excel, access, word and powerpoint. The instructional style boarders greatly on simulation training, grader activities, grader projects and hands-on practice. In this regard, it is important for the instructor to provide high maintenance and support the students as needed. For instance, during simulation training, the instructor needs to go around the class to assist individual student as needed. The instructor should also provide students will relevant materials and resources to help them achieve success. For instance, in meeting this goal, during our review, we realized that we should teach the topics using 2016 applications as against 2013 applications. This guide of quest was born out of our desire to promote students friendly learning environment. EDTC615 Fall2018
shelybodine

Applying SMART goals for student achievement - 0 views

https://journals.tdl.org/absel/index.php/absel/article/viewFile/90/86 This article provides insight into using SMART goals within the classroom. This includes an explanation of how SMART goals ha...

EDTC Fall2018

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Jennifer Dow

There's No Such Thing as a Reading Test - 1 views

prospect.org/...res-no-such-thing-reading-test

ELA;reading;importance of context;UMUC615;reading comprehension;improving reading

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  • Jennifer Dow on 25 Jun 15
     
    This article argues that we, as a society, are misguided in our approach to teaching to the test, when it comes to critical reading. The author argues that it is not simply enough to teach reading strategies to students because research has demonstrated that there is an absolute necessity to teach context and content for essential background knowledge. This seems to stand in the face of the common tagline in education that it is not What we teach, but how we teach. To tackle this issue, it is recommended that teachers take a more curriculum based approach in reading tests. That is to say, that teachers don't simply choose texts arbitrarily, but rather, in order to teach to these high-stakes tests and core standards, that teachers very mindfully construct a curriculum which builds student exposure and study of key informational texts.
akivett

Teaching Higher Order Thinking Skills - 3 views

www.teachingchannel.org/...g-higher-order-thinking-skills

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  • bhamolia on 23 Jun 16
     
    It is impressive to watch critical thought happen in a classroom. Through this link you are able to watch a lesson that helps students build higher order thinking skills. This middle school literature lesson brings in the ELA Common Core by teaching how to analyze how a section in text fits into the overall theme and to cite textual evidence to support analysis of text. Through student-driven questioning, the entire class is engaged in critical thinking, analysis, and evaluation. This outstanding lesson was driven by the teacher as she required them to develop higher-level questions using Costa's question levels, verb starters, and Blooms Taxonomy. I have not used this technique of providing these questioning terms to my students to have the them develop the questions. I cannot wait to try this out next school year!
  • akivett on 27 Oct 17
     
    This video from the Teaching Chanel highlights ways and the importance of creating higher order questions in order to analyze and discuss a text. This would be a great resource for my Smart Goal of With my SMART goal: by the end of quarter 1, 60% of students will score a 70% or higher on the Quarter 1 Literacy Assessment. The Quarter 1 literacy assessment is on theme, standard RL 4.2. Having my students become "the teachers" of their own learning and create higher level questions can help them get a deeper understanding of the text and in turn, determine the theme.
Felicia Greer

Addressing the Achievement Gap in Special Education - 4 views

www.miltonps.org/...ressingtheAchievementGap14.pdf

Milton Public Schools Addrssed Achievement Gap Gaps in special education

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  • Felicia Greer on 23 Oct 16
     
    A 21-page study of Milton Public Schools addressing the achievement gap of special education students.
  • slail2 on 02 Jul 18
     
    I find this interesting, considering we never question the tests. Teachers, Schools, Families, and School districts have been trying for years to close achievement gaps, yet the gap remains. I think it is time to stop discussing what we need to do and start looking at standardized tests as inappropriate.
  • cynthia1985 on 03 Jul 18
     
    This study suggests that policy makers need to re-examine how they view the educational gaps of students with disabilities, in that they are diverse in the range of disabilities that create these disparaties. Decision making to lessen the gap cannot look at a one size fits all solution when dealing with a heterogeneous sub-group.
bheyman

Why Good Grades Don't Always Match Good Test Scores - 0 views

www.noodle.com/...-always-match-good-test-scores

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  • bheyman on 07 Mar 17
     
    Parents and caregivers usually receive and review several report cards throughout the school year. They may also see the quizzes and read the papers that result in their kid's average grades. But sometimes when standardized test reports go home, children's scores don't match the grades they've earned for their work in school.
aruffin-justis

Misunderstood Minds . Basics of Math | PBS - 1 views

www.pbs.org/...mathbasics.html

EDTC 615 mathematics

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  • aruffin-justis on 10 Mar 17
     
    Additional information about milestones and K-12 math curriculum is available on The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Web site. NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics outlines grade-by-grade recommendations for classroom mathematics instruction for both content matter and process.
nightstalker9

To Close the Achievement Gap, We Need to Close the Teaching Gap - 1 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...the-achievement_b_5542614.html

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  • nightstalker9 on 22 Oct 16
     
    This article is very timely it talks about the NCLB law and how it isn't working. Threats to teachers firing, closing schools and students still continue to decline. Standardized testing isn't working. This is a great article, must read.
srichards29

Introduction to Data-Driven Educational Decision Making - 4 views

www.ascd.org/...ucational_Decision_Making.aspx

data based decision making edtc615

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  • seosteph on 21 Oct 16
     
    Since standardized testing has seem to surface as a way for schools to be graded on their "performance", an increasing number of schools have embraced the data driven curriculum.
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  • srichards29 on 09 Mar 17
     
    Article discusses how we can use data to drive instruction, data has always existed but now we have to use it to be successful.
  • ncianelli on 12 Mar 17
     
    This article gives good insight on using data with our instruction. Although the idea of using data to drive instruction has always been out there, within the last 2 years, this has become more of a focus in my school. Last year we started holding monthly "data meetings" in order to look at data gathered from weekly assessments, unit assessments, county and state assessments. Based on the scores we would work to create a next steps in our instruction. As a school, we also set goals to reach across grade levels.
  • bethmazz on 14 Mar 17
     
    Good article. As I was reading this article one thing hit me. One of the first things that is mentioned is NCLB, RTTT, and CCSS. I was thinking, maybe if the government would let teachers get used to a curriculum our instruction would get better and higher level learning could go on. Just my short rant.
saxman_51

Closing the achievement gap - 1 views

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/09/achievement.aspx Writer discusses the effects of 15 minute interventions on student performances and growth.

Intervention Academic Performance Standardized Test Scores Data Achievement Gap Growth Learning

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sirantoinne

digital balance - differences in learning gaps: part 2 - 0 views

www.digitalbalance.co.uk/...rences-in-learning-gaps-part-2

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      sirantoinne on 12 Mar 17
       
      This article is more focused on the teacher and his/her learning gap, It breakdowns the leaning gaps and how to identify with them. It implies to not be afraid of the learning gap, but one should acknowledge it by consistently learning. It also delves in teachers personalizing their learning style. In doing so, teachers automatically close gaps which lead to success on standardized tests.
mrdulberger

LearnZillion - 1 views

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EDTC615 ELA mathematics

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  • mrdulberger on 13 Mar 16
     
    Diigo's default comment: LearnZillion is the world's first open, cloud-based curriculum. We help teachers, schools, and districts improve instruction and respond to the specific needs of their students. My comments: Learn zillion provides a large bank of instructional videos and resources that align to the Common Core. The lessons are designed for teachers or students. I often show bits and pieces of certain videos to my students during our ELA or Math block. Occasionally I will just use a Learnzillion video for myself as a refresher on strategies for teaching a specific standard. This resource can help identify and eliminate instructional gaps in the classroom. Teachers can even log in and assign their students specific videos or just share a link.
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