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When you think about how to assess students what might be the first thing that comes to mind.
Tests..
Projects..

The tools we use to assess these tasks often include a marking scheme or a rubric.

But what if the tests and projects were simply the tools we used to assess the skills students demonstrated.

And...the rubrics, learning goals, success criteria were not based on the product produced by the skills demonstrated.

This would mean that the projects we designed and assigned and the tests that we developed wouldn't need to be the same for each student, nor would we need to make a new rubric for every iteration of what our students made.

This is why I want you to look differently at assessment.

It's not the task or project that we make the rubric for it's the skills.

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Did you know that there was more than one way to run your centers in your grade3-6 classroom?

I have 6 different ways that you can run centers in your junior classroom.

These look at two different factors in using centers.

1) Rotations

2) Groupings

I have a simple matrix for you that looks at what centers look like on these continuums.

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What are your goals for your literacy program in a junior program?

In this episode, we are going to review what makes junior literacy different from primary education.

Then learn about some things that can be used in the classroom that will help you accomplish these goals.

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Let's start by looking at where to start when you are planning out your literacy program.

I have five things that will help you get started with your literacy program.

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When I first started looking at making my long-range plans or just trying to figure out what I needed to teach. I treated the curriculum standards like a checklist.

This checklist led me to feel overwhelmed and always feeling like I was never going to get everything done.

I hated that feeling.

So I changed the way I looking at planning what I was going to teach when and I will never look back.

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It's that time of year when we are all sitting down to write report cards.

From one teacher to another I wanted to share how I sit down and tackle these to help me get these done.

In this video, we talk about:
- How do you organize your tasks
- Strategies to turn your marking into a report card mark
- How to build your comment bank

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It's that time of year when we are all sitting down to write report cards.

From one teacher to another I wanted to share how I sit down and tackle these to help me get these done.

I'd love to know your tips for shaving off time to write your own reports. Share below

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I don't know about your but something tells me that I will need to be changing a few things up next week.
- Students are less engaged
- Parents are returning to work
- The weather is hard to avoid - we all would rather be outside.

So I have a plan...

I am making a month-long calendar of fun and engaging ideas that kids can do at their own pace while still covering concepts of the curriculum. I want to share with you my plan on what I want to do including different trends, tools, and projects that will hopefully boost engagement and keep kids learning.

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The pressure is on and there is an increased pressure being placed on teachers to provide synchronous learning.

Never heard that word before?

That's because the better way to describe this overly complicated term is live teaching.

Just the thought of live teaching makes so many teachers nervous and rightly so. While there are advantages there are also some major concerns about privacy, access, and equity.

Despite these objections, it looks like synchronous learning is becoming more and more the expectation of teachers these days. From parents, admin, and the government.

So I wanted to talk about it.

In this live video, we broke down the advantages and disadvantages as well as the tools and equipment you can use to help you set your self up for success.

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One big concern with teachers right now is how to provide assessment and feedback.

I wanted to share with you my mindset when it comes to providing feedback and assessment for teachers of students.

There is no one way to provide quality feedback and no it doesn't need to be all about writing paragraphs in response to everything that they are doing.

Let's review the guidelines set out for teachers.

Then we can explore some ideas on how to provide student's feedback.

We may not be evaluating and nothing we do is going to count however I am still marking their work and some of my own feedback will be given in value out of 10.

I know controversial.... but let me explain why I am still doing this even though it doesn't count.

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