Key Considerations for Student Progress Monitoring

Rae HughartBlog, Differentiate Better, Mastery Done Better, Video(s)

Key Considerations for Student Progress Monitoring Video Highlights: Allows students to have a role and voice in advocating for their needs and progress. Progress monitoring needs to be a living, breathing document/element of your class that allows students to share their learning. Students can share a variety of things, such as their learning, questions, comments, and feedback to other students. … Read More

Better Than YouTube – Rae Hughart TEDxNormal

Rae HughartBlog, Differentiate Better, Engage Better, Lesson Plan Better, Mastery Done Better, Personalize Student Learning Better, Video(s)

Video Highlights: Rae shares the importance of teachers in the classroom. Teachers are better than YouTube—they can foster discussion, facilitate reflection, and ensure learning is not only consumed but experienced. Teachers can ask deeper questions and follow up with personalized feedback. [scroll down to keep reading] About Rae Hughart Rae Hughart is a Middle-Level Math Educator in Illinois, the Chief … Read More

3 Tips for High Quality Student Conferences

Lindsay LyonsBlog, Differentiate Better, Grade Better, Lesson Plan Better, Mastery Done Better

TL;DR: Make student conferences a part of your unit arc. Give high quality feedback outside of your conferences. Invite students to lead and give them ownership in conversations about their grade. These tips can support the regularity, efficiency and effectiveness, and student ownership of conferences. For the last half of my teaching career, weekly student conferencing has been a staple … Read More

Career and Technical Education Starts in Elementary School!

Martin SilvermanBlog, Differentiate Better, Engage Better

TL;DR: Career and Technical Education (CTE) should start in elementary school. Create clubs that connect students to interests they already know they have. But more importantly, clubs that connect students to interests they don’t know they have yet.  I just had the distinct honor and privilege of being a guest on a great new podcast called BridgEd. It is hosted … Read More

Teaching Organizational Skills to Virtual Students

Teach Better TeamBlog, Differentiate Better, Manage Better

TL;DR: For students, being able to organize one’s schedule and keeping track of assignments is a life skill. Being organized is a learned skill that takes some students more time to conquer than others. Students should feel accomplished after mastering organization skills, especially in virtual school. This post includes PDF copies of virtual organizers for students. As a former educator, … Read More