Assessment Methods: Easy For You or Best For Them?

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Do you remember watching the television show Make a Wish? For a while, it was televised on Saturday, but I mainly remember seeing it if we played hooky from church on Sunday. The star of the show was Tom Chapin. One site reminds my cobwebbed covered mind that Chapin would introduce the topic of the show like this – “I think ... Full Story

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    Teach Compassion Using Online Games

    Teach Compassion Using Online Games
    What is it? I have posted before about a website called Free Rice. This vocabulary game has the added benefit of donating rice to help end world hunger. For each correct answer, Free Rice donates 20 grains of rice on your behalf. This isn’t the only website with a cause. Aid to Children is a vocabulary game like Free Rice — ...
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    Quizzing Works, the Evidence Says

    Quizzing Works, the Evidence Says
    The level of evidence supporting the use of quizzing is strong based on nine experimental studies examining the effects of this practice for improving K-12 students’ performance on academic content or classroom performance, over 30 experimental studies that examined the effect of this strategy for improving college students’ academic performance, and the large number of carefully controlled laboratory experiments that have ...
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    10 Things to Do When You Only Have 5 Minutes Left in Class

    10 Things to Do When You Only Have 5 Minutes Left in Class
    You've completed your lessons for the day, but you still have some time left and a group of eager students with nothing productive to do. What can you do in this time to keep your class under control until the bell rings? Here is a list of 10 things to do when you only have 5 minutes left in class. h4. ...
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    Seven Tips to Make Teacher Collaboration Time Productive

    Seven Tips to Make Teacher Collaboration Time Productive
    Walk into a school today and you will rarely find teachers independently planning for instruction. Teachers today are expected to collaboratively plan, teach, and reflect. The shift from individual to team planning emerged from the need to provide teachers with “common planning time.” As a curriculum program coordinator, I spent many days working with groups of teachers during their common planning ...
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    Caffeinating NCLB

    Caffeinating NCLB
    If we're to believe the chattering class, the greatest problem in public education today is No Child Left Behind. It has destroyed our schools, bankrupted our districts, frustrated our teachers, and destroyed the morale of our students. Those standards and high stakes testing, in particular, have been the death of us. You hear it so much that you almost believe it. ...
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