Assessment expert Dylan Wiliam says that student thinking is the primary goal for descriptive feedback. He contrasts that goal with what often happens when teachers use judgement instead of feedback with students: threatened ego. When we invoke the need to save one’s honor or self-perception in a student through our comments on his performance, there’s little to no
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How video games can help students develop important life skills Admit it. You have played video games and perhaps enjoyed them! Tetris? Candy Crush? Angry Birds? Solitaire? Or perhaps a game-of-chance? Well you are not alone. With more than 65 million users of Pokemon Go gained in the week after it launched, the craze rekindled
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Making connections with advisory is so much fun When we first began creating our advisory program, its purpose was to replace a 30-minute homeroom embedded in our day. One of the problems with advisory at the time was that teachers were struggling to create worthwhile activities. We needed a better plan and an advisory program
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Using Hollywood film and sources to analyze figures in Greek mythology There is no doubt that the use of Hollywood films in a classroom provides the students with a variety of benefits crucial to their learning and their understanding. Although movie day in a middle level classroom is typically viewed by students as a “blow
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Nurturing conditions where ALL students succeed Too many schools continue to struggle with closing the achievement gap. The No Child Left Behind legislation was supposed to change all of this, though today we still have too many students left behind. Lawmakers continue to churn out legislation to address the problem, but results remain dismal and
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Assistant Superintendent Dr. David McDonald will be presented the National Educator of the Year Award at AMLE2017 in Philadelphia. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 31, 2017 COLUMBUS, OH —David McDonald, Ph.D., assistant superintendent for school leadership, Greenville County Schools, Greenville, South Carolina, is the recipient of the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) 2017 Educator of the
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