Dropping grades in favor of high-quality feedback on assessments helped her students focus on learning instead of ranking.
Andrew Boryga
Edutopia
Meet Our Director: Voyage Denver
I fell in love with working in a school setting and applied to begin my graduate degree is special education. The irony here is that I had spent so much of my early years as a student resisting the idea of school altogether. With dyslexia and attention deficit disorder, it’s an understatement to say that school was never my happy place.
Embed Sentence Lessons
Sentence instruction should actually begin at the word level, since words form the basis of sentences. Students need strategies to identify and collect word banks that they can then use when they go off to compose.
Think SRDS
Social Emotional Learning & Why it Matters for Educators
National University
From an academic standpoint, students who participated in SEL programs saw an 11 percentile increase in their overall grades and better attendance. On a more individual level, the skills learned within an SEL program have been shown to help students better cope with emotional stress, solve problems…
Students who are equipped to deal with problems that affect them on a personal level are then better able to navigate the pressures of adult life.
When educators make academic lessons more personal and relatable to students, students may be more inclined to participate and may be less likely to mentally check-out during their subjects. By fostering a sense of empathy, self-awareness, and feelings of safety and inclusiveness in the classroom, SEL can have a positive impact that lasts a lifetime.
Why Students Need to Explain Their Thinking
Right and wrong answers don’t reveal much about student thinking.
Carnegie Learning