Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2020

Below is a document that details each building block, the objective of that activity, and the technology tools teachers can use to engage students in that type of learning activity online. The incredible folks at the Nebraska Department of Education put together a template that I loved! OnlineBuildingBlocks.

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Lesson Plan Tradition Teaching Education 218

TeachThought

JULY 18, 2024

This has always been true but, for many educators, it’s gone from exhausting to unsustainable. All of the planning and energy busts are followed by something close to a slog or dredge, which itself is followed up by an annoyed kind of fatigue, and then finished as entirely depleted by the end of the school year.

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Teaching Classroom Management Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan 300

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

That leaves a small window of time for all of the other tasks and responsibilities that teachers have to juggle, including planning and designing lessons. . Planning is critical to creating meaningful learning opportunities for students. Step 3: Google Calendar Planner–Adding documents and links.

Tradition 218

Tradition Lesson Plan Middle School Teaching 218

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

There is a great deal of talk these days about micro-credentials and digital badging as a means to acknowledge professional learning of educators. Acknowledging the informal learning of educators had been a long- neglected area in schools, and Ms. Micro-credentials can be used to guide, motivate, and validate informal learning.

Pedagogy 230

Pedagogy Lesson Plan Professional Development Educational Technology 230

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Vocabulary Lesson Plan Sept. This can also be accomplished through a collaborative document or presentation like Google Docs or Slides. 28, 2020 • Studies Weekly Grades: K-8 Why: (Purpose) Vocabulary instruction aligns with deep learning by helping students make connections between words and construct meaningful knowledge.

Lesson Plan 52

Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development History 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The binders resemble, to a degree, the individualized education programs, or IEPs, that are at the heart of education for students with disabilities. But Arianna and Alanni aren’t special education students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

Education 145

Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Primary sources include: Personal correspondence and diaries Government and civil documents Speeches and oral histories Audio and video recordings Photographs and posters Unfortunately, most textbooks provide just facts and figures, not an immersive experience.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources Social Studies Teaching Oral History 52

Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are becoming more prevalent everywhere, including in education spaces. Educators may sometimes wonder, “What is AI?” For example, teachers can use Merlyn to set timers and switch displays between their laptop, document camera, and interactive whiteboard. and, “What can AI do?” Looking ahead.

Classroom Management 159

Classroom Management Tutoring Lesson Plan Humanities 159

Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

The next day, he thoroughly enjoyed discussing primary documents with these new friends. In the next sessions we got to relate what we saw to what we read in the documents. He switched to 6 th through 12 th grade social studies education after concluding that politics had grown too ugly. But your kid asked about the election.

Junior High 52

Junior High Library K-12 Social Studies 52

Studies Weekly

APRIL 7, 2025

He received an extensive education in New Orleans through the 1930s and earned a master’s degree and an MD. He received a theoretical physics and applied mathematics education at Brooklyn College, Princeton University, and New York University. His own records document visits to 87 countries. DeBakey (19082008) Michael E.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Primary Sources American History Heritage 52

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

For every lesson plan I toiled over while teaching English as a New Language for 16 years in New York City and Tucson high schools, there were at least 15–20 adjustments made as I enacted that lesson plan with real people in real time. Yet, it is a challenge that can be overcome, and educators themselves can lead the way.

Education 85

Education K-12 Lesson Plan Pedagogy 85

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

His ambitions to learn were thwarted because his teacher had assigned handouts and a three-week-long lesson plan that relied on a website that wasn’t easy for him to navigate. Ticking Clock Under the new guidelines, digital text, images, audio, videos, documents, controls and animations must meet a series of “ success criteria.”

EdTech 143

EdTech K-12 Government Social Justice 143

Digital Promise

APRIL 30, 2019

Across the United States and around the world, educators are being called on to help their students prepare for futures in an increasingly computational world. Integrating computational thinking into activities, lessons, and curricula not only supports building new skills, but also enhances learning and engagement in every discipline.

Lesson Plan 134

Lesson Plan Social Studies Learning Science Humanities 134

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. Kim, a reading specialist, and other researchers had developed two sets of multi-year lesson plans, one for science and one for social studies. “The That’s hard.

Learning Science 145

Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Better results for project-based learning were documented on a variety of tests, from Advanced Placement exams in high school to annual state assessments in math and reading in sixth grade. Students had to document their learning process as they added their ideas and built a device. Not every attempt at project-based learning worked.

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Project-Based Learning Middle School Social Studies High School 145

Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2020

This common experience illuminates how challenging it can be for educational technology (edtech) companies to communicate what they do and why it is important. Most importantly, educators wonder, “What will this tool actually do for my students?”. In edtech, the closest thing to a blueprint or a lesson plan is a product roadmap.

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EdTech Lesson Plan Research Leadership 97

Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. see this 2002 Education Week report ). However, the evidence is mounting that teacher qualifications and experience matter for student achievement.

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Leadership Education Policy Lesson Plan Tradition 115

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Education has had a wobbly relationship with the still-evolving presence of generative AI in schools — with some school districts banning it only to reverse course. So how much work would it take to come up with guidelines to help educators manage the challenges of using generative AI tools for their work? AI is everywhere.

K-12 105

K-12 Lesson Plan Middle School Humanities 105

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

And it’s arriving on the scene at a time when math scores are at a national historic low and educators are questioning if math should be taught differently. students began long before the pandemic, but the problem has snowballed into an education crisis. Computers are really good at doing tedious things. We can let the computer do it.

Tutoring 131

Tutoring Humanities Lesson Plan Teaching 131

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences.

Social Studies 115

Social Studies Civics Pedagogy Geography 115

Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 14, 2024

For example, The Political Socialization Lesson teaches students about this important term. Additionally, the lesson teaches students about political ideology while taking them on a quote analysis. It even includes video links, answer keys, and editable documents! Honestly, elections are costly!

Teaching 130

Teaching Government Social Studies High School 130

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2017

When Deborah Gist took over as superintendent in 2015, after leaving her position as the blended-learning-focused education commissioner in Rhode Island, she created a new office – the Office of Data Strategy and Analytics. Higher Education. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. The post Psst!

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Lesson Plan Public School Humanities Teaching 105

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. There was no video or audio, but students could text chat with a human tutor and work together on a virtual whiteboard and share documents. Education researchers and the U.S.

Tutoring 132

Tutoring Charter School Research Lesson Plan 132

ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

It’s a sentiment shared by many teachers, at a time when adequately staffing classrooms is already a challenge : Tens of thousands of teaching positions sit vacant this school year, and multiples more are filled by “underqualified” educators. Most educators have not left, and many never will. labor force, at 44 percent.

Teaching 130

Teaching K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School 130

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We taught lessons, organized student materials and met with families in this space. The other two special education teachers at my school also shared a classroom. Our special education team includes six teachers and four paraprofessionals, and we serve our students through a combination of models.

Teaching 98

Teaching Museum Lesson Plan Education 98

Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Between managing the chaos of lesson planning, keeping up with my students, and coaching, it’s been a whirlwind. It’s been a huge time saver, especially since it allowed me to focus more on the classroom and less on the stress of documenting every detail.

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Primary Sources Artifacts Geography Lesson Plan 128

Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

To do that, I took the primary sources straight out of the textbook and ran them through Claude AI with a simple prompt: “Keep the primary sourceness of these documents but make them so 8th graders can understand them.” The revised documents were a mix of Jamestown and Plymouth hardships and survival stories.

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Primary Sources Geography History Lesson Plan 126

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Experts say early educators are key to developing early math knowledge and noticing potential delays in math. Nobody uses the proper term for it, it’s not diagnosed frequently,” said Sandra Elliott, a former special education teacher and current chief academic officer at TouchMath, a multisensory math program. 17 at 8 p.m.

Tutoring 140

Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 140

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. When Rebecca Brewer started teaching high school biology 20 years ago, it seemed like everyone trusted science.

Controversial Topics 122

Controversial Topics Middle School Lesson Plan Teaching 122

Edthena

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Now, can you name at least one educator who could serve as a model for others? But this process doesn’t easily scale across a large number of educators who will need access to the special group and a wide set of contributors who will need to remember to share their video to the group. Or classroom management. Probably not.

Library 78

Library Teaching Lesson Plan Classroom Management 78

Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Ask the students if they know when and where votes are cast. Review the vocabulary erms “poll,”early voting,” and “absentee voting.” ” Have students work in pairs or small groups to decide what the terms mean and why voters might vote early or absentee. What could be done to get more people to register to vote?

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Lesson Plan Classroom Management Professional Development Social Studies 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Vocabulary and Definitions: constitution: the document that sets up a system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, etc., Lesson Plan: All Grades: Ask the students if they know what the U.S. is governed.

Government 52

Government Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development 52

ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2022

They set up their classrooms, consult the curriculum, make lesson plans and determine their routines. Very often, teachers make well-intentioned and thoughtful plans to encourage their students to read daily in order to practice skills and strategies taught in class, as well as to build a lifelong reading habit.

Library 110

Library Lesson Plan Elementary School Cultures 110

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It’s pretty well known in educational circles that cooperative learning is supported by research, but so many teachers still struggle with it, so when things don’t work well, they give it up. Carry a clipboard or tablet to document what students are grasping, what is challenging, and who has provided evidence of learning.

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy Library Lesson Plan Classroom Management 130

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Educator preparation is moving in this direction and taking a major step to becoming a profession governed by agreed upon standards that are both enforced and regulated by a system of assessment that is reliable and valid. It focuses on lesson planning, instruction, assessment and academic language – all in support of student learning.

Teaching 84

Teaching Pedagogy Tradition Leadership 84

Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Our worksheets are perfect for helping students with reading comprehension, preparing for the Regents review or state assessment, pairing with a video like the Crash Course US History series, or with your lesson plans throughout the school year. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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History Primary Sources Lesson Plan American History 52