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Building Better Rubrics: Empowering Learners Through Effective Rubric Design

Catlin Tucker

Why should teachers use rubrics to assess student work? Rubrics are valuable assessment tools that provide clear and transparent expectations about what constitutes quality work. Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair.

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Call For Papers: Trauma Informed Anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 2nd April 202 3 Special Issue: Trauma-Informed Anthropology Guest Editor: Dr William Tantam, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Theme Trauma manifests in different ways, for different people, and at different times, and has been conceptualised as taking people to the ‘edge of existence’ (Lester 2013).

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A federal definition of ‘homeless’ leaves some kids out in the cold. One state is trying to help

The Hechinger Report

VANCOUVER, Wash. — When her bill for overdue rent topped five digits, Resly Suka decided it was time to tell her kids they might lose their home. A bout with Covid in late 2020 had forced Suka, a single mother of seven, to take time off from her job as a home hospice caregiver. That triggered a series of financial setbacks and, by October 2021, she owed more than $10,000 in back rent.

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Students Want a Better Education Experience. First, Teachers Must Master Deeper Learning.

ED Surge

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning. Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine, authors of the 2019 book “ In Search of Deeper Learning ”, define deeper learning as “the understanding of not just the surface features of a subject or discipline, but the underlying structures or ideas.

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Micro-credentials 2023: Reflections and Celebrations for the Future

Digital Promise

The post Micro-credentials 2023: Reflections and Celebrations for the Future appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Dissertation Update: “On Anthropomorphism”

Anthropology 365

I’ve sent off the first section of my dissertation to my advisor. This section is going in the introduction around the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study.

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How edtech can worsen racial inequality

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! In the last few months, AI-powered technologies like ChatGPT and BingAI have received a lot of attention for their potential to transform many aspects of our lives.

EdTech 120

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Unintentional Teachers: Looking beyond vocation to attract people into the teaching profession

Becoming a History Teacher

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I didn’t intend to become a teacher. I knew I wanted a career which was, to my youthful judgement, ‘socially responsible’. I knew I liked people, although I wasn’t 100% sure about young children. For personal reasons I needed to stay living in my university town. I also knew I LOVED my subject and would like to continue thinking about it.

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The Planes of Neurodevelopment

Maitri Learning

At the AIMS (Association of Illinois Montessori Schools) conference this past weekend, I was honored to meet with about 500 educators and administrators and teach about where Dr. Montessori's theory on the planes of development meets our current understanding of neurodevelopment. The weather was a bit tentative for travel before I left, so I pre-recorded my talk in case the snow and ice prevented me from physically making it there.

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‘Wasted money’: How career-training companies scoop up federal funds with little oversight

The Hechinger Report

Dora Bray Magilke had been unemployed for over a month when someone from her local career center in Branson, Missouri, reached out in the summer of 2020 with an offer. Magilke qualified for a government grant to go back to school, she was told, at a place the center suggested: an online company called MedCerts. This story also appeared in The Washington Post Having previously worked as a certified nursing assistant, Magilke leapt at the chance to move up in the medical field with the full $4,000

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How Research-Based Tools Provide Impactful Learning Outcomes

ED Surge

What defines an exemplary edtech company that serves K-12 needs? How does a district measure return on investment when adopting new curricula? While the edtech market continues to grow with innovative ways to engage students, not many companies provide products rooted in three decades of cognitive research that continue to provide solid returns on investment.

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Shaping Desires and the Formation of our Students

Pedagogy and Formation

While Master of New College - a Christian residential college at the University of New South Wales (Sydney) - I invited James K.A. Smith to travel from the USA in 2012 to present our annual public lecture series to the College, University and the wider Church. He shared much wisdom on how to live as people of faith in a sometimes hostile world. One truth that resonated strongly with my experiences as a Christian educator, teacher and college head, was his reminder that education is very much an

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The Planes of Neurodevelopment

Maitri Learning

At the AIMS (Association of Illinois Montessori Schools) conference this past weekend, I was honored to meet with about 500 educators and administrators and teach about where Dr. Montessori's theory on the planes of development meets our current understanding of neurodevelopment. The weather was a bit tentative for travel before I left, so I pre-recorded my talk in case the snow and ice prevented me from physically making it there.

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OPINION: Let’s pay more attention to colleges that educate the vast majority of Americans

The Hechinger Report

There are about 2,800 four-year public and nonprofit private colleges and universities in the United States. Yet as we await the Supreme Court’s decision on the use of affirmative action in college admissions, the nation’s gaze is once again narrowed to the most elite and selective 100 institutions: the so-called top 5 percent. Administrators at these top-ranking colleges, along with college counselors at elite high schools, are strategizing how they might manage what many anticipate will be a v

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. “The Spirit of Our Work: Black Women Teachers (Re)Member” “We Be Lovin’ Black Children: Learning to be Literate About the African Diaspora” “Teaching Black History to White People” “Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools” “They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South” “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil” Aniefuna means “my land is not lost.

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Austerity: An Economy of Words? – Pt. 1

Perspectives in Anthropology

By Keith Hart This essay starts with a personal account of the near starvation of Europe after the Second World War. We called it rationing then. The memory of Britain’s “finest hour” in standing alone against Germany for two years was harnessed to the idea of “shared sacrifice”.

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New website, New podcast, It's a Newapolooza

All Things Pedagogical

So I did a thing. It is a thing that I have been wanting to do for so long and I talked about it a bit two weeks ago. I decided about a year ago that I wanted to start a podcast that would be focused on accessible pedagogy. It would talk about specific strategies and also be a space where folk could ask questions and I could share resources. As I noted a few weeks ago, the anxiety of actually creating the new website coupled with the anxiety of all the things you need to think about when you sta

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COLUMN: Styrofoam cities and avatars: how the Gehry siblings would redesign education

The Hechinger Report

LOS ANGELES – A group of fifth graders assemble around an enormous cardboard-covered table, designing a city from recycled materials. There’s tremendous excitement in this Venice, California, classroom as they discuss ideas for creating an imaginary metropolis from scratch. “We need transportation!” one student shouts. “A train going all through the city,” another offers.

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Will ChatGPT Make Students Turn Away From Homework-Help Services?

ED Surge

The emergence of ChatGPT provoked widespread concern that the AI chatbot is the ultimate tool for students cheating on homework, since it can answer just about any question in paragraph form. As companies race to come out with tools they claim can detect when prose was written by a bot, some are wondering whether a previous generation of homework-help tools might soon be rendered obsolete.

EdTech 101
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#EDvice: The Significance of Student Voice

A Principal's Reflections

I see student voice as the gateway to personalization. Educators can easily implement it as part of Tier 1 instruction and for students to report out during cooperative learning, projects, and choice activities. It can also allow students to advocate for needed changes to school culture. You would be hard-pressed to find a more valuable strategy that is universal in nature across virtually all pedagogical techniques.

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Teaching Partner, Grading Assistant or Substitute Teacher?

ED Surge

AI tools have rapidly entered Language Arts classrooms. The proliferation of AI tools has outpaced efforts to understand how AI’s presence might change teaching practices or the role of the teacher. ChatGPT adds to the suite of AI tools that might be encountered in an ELA classroom, along with automated essay scoring, writing evaluation and feedback.

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How Mega-Universities Manage to Teach Hundreds of Thousands of Students

ED Surge

In the early days of online education, I imagined that virtual classrooms would follow the same basic model as in-person ones, with an instructor leading the same number of students typical in a campus class. One of my colleagues at New York University disagreed, cautioning even decades ago, that the belief was “pretty naive.” To make online financially viable, he predicted, “remote classes will need to enroll many more.

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OPINION: Another epidemic is causing Black students to fall behind: Chronic absenteeism

The Hechinger Report

My time in education forever impacted the way I see the world. This is why when I began making a fictional film about college reunions, I couldn’t help reflecting on the real-life challenges in education that impede students, particularly Black students, from attending and graduating from college. In 2021, at the height of the pandemic, I wrote a movie.

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A surprising remedy for teens in mental health crises

The Hechinger Report

RAMSEY, N.J. — Last spring, Jamie Gorman had a panic attack at the mall. This story also appeared in The Washington Post The then-high school sophomore was with a group of friends at Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, when she began to feel overwhelmed. Her fingers were tingling. She couldn’t catch her breath. She felt shaky and dizzy. Her teenage friends sprang into action.

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PROOF POINTS: Taking stock of tutoring

The Hechinger Report

Ever since the pandemic shut down schools almost three years ago, I’ve been writing about tutoring as the most promising way to help kids catch up academically. I often get questions about research on tutoring. How effective is tutoring? How many schools are doing it? How is it going so far? In this column, I’m recapping the evidence for tutoring and what we know now about pandemic tutoring.