Monthly Archives: August 2016
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Tips and Tricks for Providing Quality Performance Feedback
Feedback is a highly nuanced skill that every educator needs to develop. While grading is often guided by outside standards or easily quantified metrics, feedback has ... -
Seven Major Strategies for Creating Formative Assessments
Classroom assessment is a chance for teachers to put their creative and evaluative skills to the test. The structure and content of classroom assessments are entirely ... -
Educators: Is Your Grading On-Point?
Grading is at the crux of educational evaluation. It’s a major factor in designating student success, and it’s a vital skill that every educator needs to ... -
Creating Quality Classroom Assessments: How to Create Written Assessments
Many educators turn to writing-based evaluations when it comes to classroom assessments. While written evaluations take a lot of subjective judgment and extra effort when it ... -
Discrimination in the Classroom: What You Need To Know About Students with Learning Disabilities
Some people believe that race and sex are the main forms of discrimination, however as Educators we may witness other forms of judgement. So, what types ... -
These Teacher-Friendly Software Tools Are Your New Best Friends
The Internet is a huge arena of resources, but sometimes, navigating it effectively can seem like a daunting task. How do you know what’s worth clicking ... -
Handling Gender Differences in the Classroom through Instruction
To actively engage students in the classroom, it is necessary to avoid gender discriminations. This article discusses an instructional approach to eliminating discriminations within the classroom. ... -
A Look At High-Stakes Tests: The Pro’s and Cons
Education today is run rampant with evaluations. Classroom tests, national standardized assessments, even scores that reflect international performance – students from elementary school through high school ... -
Educators: Do You Know About These Alternatives to High-Stakes Tests?
How to best quantify educational achievement and recognize academic progress is a continually hot debate. Standardized tests are too uniform and broad in scope to consistently ... -
Teachers: Make the Most of Your Classroom Assessments
While it’s usually outside the scope of a teacher’s responsibilities to make decisions about standardized testing in school, it is every teacher’s responsibility to perform classroom ...