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Preparing Teachers to Formatively Assess
Timothy Boerst, Meghan Shaughnessy, Rosalie DeFino, Merrie Blunk, Susanna Farmer, Erin Pfaff, D'Anna Pynes
Dec 06, 2019
To engage in formative assessment, preservice teachers (PSTs) need to develop skill with the practice of interpretation. The initial preparation of teachers would benefit from having a sense of the interpretation skills brought...
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Benefits and Challenges of Collaborative Learning in Online Teacher Education
Vassiliki Zygouris-Coe
Jan 11, 2019
Demand for online learning is increasing in US colleges and universities. Learning does not occur in a vacuum; students learn independently and collaboratively. But, is there room for collaborative learning in online courses?...
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Moving K-12 Coursework Online
Online learning is part of the future of K-12 education. However, few online K-12 instructors have been formally trained in online pedagogy. This chapter describes best practices in creating online courses for K-12 students....
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Using Virtual Book Clubs to Elevate Discussion and Diverse Voices
Preservice teachers in educator preparation programs (EPPs) are rarely cognizant of programmatic structures outside their own EPP. This lack of awareness isolates preservice teachers within their own programs and university...
K-12 Education Education Teacher Education Library and Information Science Social Sciences and Humanities
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Need We Train Online Instructors?
In an online setting, it is critical to understand the factors that influence learning outcomes and student satisfaction. Group work or collaborative learning is frequently prescribed as a vital part of online classes. Learning...
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Investigating Student Perceptions and the Effectiveness of K-12 Blended Learning Communities
Richard Hartshorne, Gina Tovine, April Fleetwood, Andrew Shepherd, Colton Tapoler, Raquel Pesce
Jan 11, 2019
While the growth of blended learning environments in higher education and non-educational settings has continued to increase in recent years, this has not been the case in K-12 settings. Recently, in an effort to explore the...
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Geometry for Computer Graphics in K-12 Education
Armando Babb
Dec 13, 2019
Computing education and computational thinking have gained increasing attention in education both as means to support the learning of other subjects, such as mathematics, science, and humanities, and as outcomes by themselves....
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Creating Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Classroom Communities in Early Childhood Language Immersion Schools
This chapter examined the development of a classroom community through a case study of a kindergarten teacher in a Spanish language immersion school. Case study data includes observational field notes, classroom artifacts...
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The Relationship of Classroom Behavior and Income Inequality to Literacy in Early Childhood
This chapter addresses the association between nurturing prosocial classroom behavior in young children, literacy, and income inequality. Literacy will be explored as it relates to social competence in the classroom as...
Educational Technologies Education K-12 Education Computer Science and Information Technology Social Sciences and Humanities
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Formative Assessment in Hands-On STEM Education
This chapter serves as an introduction to transdisciplinary learning, Integrative STEM Education, and current methods for infusing formative assessment into hands-on instruction at the elementary level. Subscribing to the...
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Ensuring Virtual Success
Very few academic programs in pre-service teacher education include opportunities for current and future K-12 educators to develop the necessary skills to teach in an online setting. While limited research has been done related...
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The Forgotten Many
Limited economic resources and geographic challenges can lead rural schools in areas experiencing poverty to deprioritize gifted education. However, for the wellbeing of individual students and their communities, investing in...
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Crystallizing Moments
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced K-12 teachers to think differently about their teaching methods. Primary grade teachers must especially consider how to make online learning engaging, motivating, and as hands-on and...
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Is There Recess on Mars?
The pandemic of 2019 created a multitude of challenges for teachers and students alike. The urgency with which education was forced to transition to a fully online delivery paradigm necessitated a triage and curate process to...
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Developing Teachers' Knowledge for Teaching in Virtual Contexts
The 2020 worldwide pandemic signaled the COVID-19 crisis as a real threat and forced K-12 schools to move teaching and learning from face-to-face classrooms to online virtual classrooms. Educators searched for a silver lining...
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Taking Responsibility for the Future
Although K–12 online education is becoming more common in the United States, there is still much we do not know about how K–12 online teachers are being prepared. Given that few teacher education programs include online pedagogy...
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Not White Saviors, but Critical Scholars
Angela Novak
Nov 12, 2021
Gifted Black and Brown students are not voiceless; their voices are suffocated under the knee of systemic racism and white supremacy. This chapter proposes that the field of gifted education advocates for needed structural and...
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Personalized Mastery-Based Learning Ecosystem
Children differ greatly in what they know and are ready to learn when they enter school. However, when their individual needs are assessed and addressed, even very young children can learn and can greatly surpass grade-level...
K-12 Education Education Learning Assessment and Measurement Social Sciences and Humanities Government and Law
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Framing Historical Thinking in the Digital Age
Scott Waring
Jan 11, 2019
It is undeniable that students today are fundamentally different than those of previous generations and that many students of this generation do not enjoy history, as it is typically ranked as one of the least favorite subjects...
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Infants, Toddlers, and Technology in Early Childhood Settings
This chapter addresses how early childhood professionals can implement technology in early childhood settings with infants and toddlers. Early childhood educators face complex expectations to ensure children learn and develop...
Educational Technologies Education K-12 Education Computer Science and Information Technology Social Sciences and Humanities
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Constructing Culturally-Authentic Differentiated Access Points Using the Content Imperatives
The need to create culturally authentic and specific learning experiences is a call to action that all teachers must answer. Current definitions of differentiation either avoid or exclude topics of culture and race. These...
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The Gamification of Code
Teaching an introductory web design course is already a blended environment. Students meet face-to-face, yet have access to a myriad of online resources, YouTube videos, blogs, and forums to support their learning. However, the...
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