Author: Matthew Lynch
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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 ... -
Objective Assessments: Are Choice-Based Tests Best for Your Classroom?
When it comes to potential structures for classroom assessments, choice-based tests are an oft-used format. They’re easy to make, straightforward to grade, and simply-structured enough that ... -
Establishing Order In Your Classroom: Five Common Approaches to Classroom Management
This article introduces different classroom management approaches, with the self-discipline and the desist approach at opposite ends. There’s no single method for managing a classroom effectively, ... -
Focus on These Four Areas to Create a Classroom Environment Conducive to Learning
Effective teachers look for every available opportunity to increase student learning. The classroom environment is a teaching resource that should not be ignored. Students and teachers ... -
Building the Individual: Draws and Drawbacks of Student-Centered Curricula
Should schools design classes to match the kids, or help build kids ready to take on any kind of class? What’s really the best way to ... -
Fielding the Awkward, Focusing on Study: Making the Most of the Middle School Environment
Middle school, awkward a time as most people remember it, is, educationally, the time when kids really start to flourish. The hope is that students leave ... -
Matching Up: Setting Standards with the Elementary School Environment
The importance of a school environment that fosters excellence, not just adequacy, extends from early childhood education to high school. However, the focus on whether or ... -
Do Your Online Resources Pass This Test?
How do you know whether or not a website is a worthwhile resource? It can be hard to tell from a single glance if a website ... -
What Courses Should Pre-Service Teachers Take?
It’s only fitting that becoming a teacher requires going to school. Lectures, notes, books, other teachers, homework – it’s all there. But what does learning to ...
