Many Kindergarten students come up with "action words" or verbs easily after ...
Many Kindergarten students come up with "action words" or verbs easily after demonstrating actions. Many of these emergent readers know more words thatn they use in daily writing/reading/sharing. This lesson is easy to use in small groups and encourages them to broaden their vocabulary in a fun format, a personal Action ABC book. They can access and practice these new (and old) verbs easily and have unique collections they have designed!
CSAI has collaborated with the Reform Support Network to share this Assessment ...
CSAI has collaborated with the Reform Support Network to share this Assessment Design Toolkit. The Toolkit includes videos and supplemental materials to help teachers write and select well-designed assessments. Although the primary audience is teachers and principals, district and State leaders can use the Toolkit to design professional development opportunities.
Teachers and administrators may use this resource to learn why sound assessment ...
Teachers and administrators may use this resource to learn why sound assessment practices are critical to foster learning and how the different tools serve different purposes; find out what assessment results are telling you about students and learn what makes a quality assessment; and integrate assessment into teaching and the importance of keeping students invested in their own learning.
From the website: "Epic! provides an unlimited selection of eBooks that can ...
From the website: "Epic! provides an unlimited selection of eBooks that can be instantly discovered, read and shared with friends. Personalized for each individual reader, Epic! is the only place to access thousands of high quality, curated children's books without the need to purchase or download them one by one. Beautifully designed for mobile and featuring fun, game-like elements, Epic! provides kids with a personal library they can take anywhere. In a world of unlimited screen time, Epic! is a smart alternative to games and videos. Epic! is available on all iOS and Android devices." Availalable as a web based resource and a free app on any platform.
Four-year study that looked at the impact of a program called Reading ...
Four-year study that looked at the impact of a program called Reading Recovery. The program trains teachers on how to administer Reading Recovery to 1st graders and found that it was effective at raising reading scores, and that generally, intensive early literacy intervention is effective.
Educators use formative assessment to continually reflect and improve their skills related ...
Educators use formative assessment to continually reflect and improve their skills related to these practices. The Formative Assessment video is a resource that can be used to support educators' professional development related to assessment literacy. Use the Video Supplement & Resource Guide to enhance your facilitation of this professional development opportunity.
This lesson is intended to help students realize that they can learn ...
This lesson is intended to help students realize that they can learn a lot about chickens—and animals in general—through close observation. They also should come to understand that it is important to learn about the special needs of eggs/chicks in order to take care of them, whether on a farm or in a classroom hatching project. This lesson can be used as an orientation for students before doing a chicken-hatching unit in class. It may also be used in conjunction with the unit to emphasize the importance of the proper care for eggs/chicks.Â
This is a remixed OER textbook from Laura Overstreet's Human Development Life ...
This is a remixed OER textbook from Laura Overstreet's Human Development Life Span text. It includes chapters on developmental theories, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.
This video is a lecture from Professor June Gruber, from Yale University. ...
This video is a lecture from Professor June Gruber, from Yale University. Some teachers choose to show the first 8 minutes as an introduction to one of the most basic human emotions, disgust. This video focuses on emotional development, and this video fits in when teaching about developing emotions in early childhood courses.
Early Literacy Specialists and Educators may use this power point individually or ...
Early Literacy Specialists and Educators may use this power point individually or with staff for development of literacy practices K -2. This tool was designed by the Early Literacy Wisconsin State Reading Association Leadership team. This tool has been used with with teams wishing to deepen their early literacy understanding by reading, discussing the book. The use of the power point will enable educators to strengthen individual and team practices. This tool enables educators to dynamically dig into I am Reading by Kathy Collins and Matt Glover generating close reading and conversation of educators.
This video tutorial will help you identify effective formative practices. In order ...
This video tutorial will help you identify effective formative practices. In order to improve student outcomes, it is essential that educators understand what the formative assessment process is and the characteristics of effective formative assessment practices.
This OER textbook is a remix of chapters from “Understanding the Whole ...
This OER textbook is a remix of chapters from “Understanding the Whole Child: Prenatal Development Through Adolescence“, “Observation and Assessment“, and “The Role of Equity and Diversity in Early Childhood Education“.
This course is an introduction to cognitive development focusing on children's understanding ...
This course is an introduction to cognitive development focusing on children's understanding of objects, agents, and causality. It develops a critical understanding of experimental design. The course discusses how developmental research might address philosophical questions about the origins of knowledge, appearance and reality, and the problem of other minds. It provides instruction and practice in written communication as needed for cognitive science research (including critical reviews of journal papers, a literature review and an original research proposal), as well as instruction and practice in oral communication in the form of a poster presentation of a journal paper.
This video and resources can be used to support educators' professional development ...
This video and resources can be used to support educators' professional development related to assessment literacy. Consider using the supplement to kick off your next PLC meeting to enhance your own assessment literacy.
Wisconsin’s, gaps between Black and White student high school graduation rates (Richards, ...
Wisconsin’s, gaps between Black and White student high school graduation rates (Richards, 2016) and Black and White fourth-grade math and reading scores (U.S. Department of Education, 2015) are the largest in the nation. These inequalities have led to criticisms of Wisconsin’s schools and teachers as ineffective in bolstering the success of students of color and those who are economically disadvantaged.
This report from researchers at UW-Madison describes differences in school readiness as reflected by literacy skills at Kindergarten entry among children in Wisconsin. We document inequalities in literacy skills by race/ethnicity, family income and place. Our results show that teachers and schools in Wisconsin face a daunting challenge in producing equitable educational outcomes for our children.
Link to full report here: https://wcer.wisc.edu/docs/working-papers/Working_Paper_No_2017_3.pdf
Kindness in the Classroom is a multi-part video series designed to give ...
Kindness in the Classroom is a multi-part video series designed to give educators insight into the positive impacts of teaching mindfulness. The series focuses on implementing the Kindness Curriculum; a free 24-lesson mindfulness guide designed for early learning classrooms, researched and developed by the Center for Healthy Minds at UW-Madison.
The Kindness Curriculum introduces techniques to help students self-regulate and improve peer relationships. Participation in the curriculum has been linked to academic achievement and increased performance in areas that predict future success.
The Kindness in the Classroom series provides insights from educators and a guided mindfulness exercise. On the project website, you can watch the series, download the Kindness Curriculum, view the learning standards met and explore research behind the curriculum.
The cultural children's story project allows students to explore Native American culture ...
The cultural children's story project allows students to explore Native American culture through a new lens by authoring and illustrating children's stories that teach children between the ages of four and six a lesson or tale unique to Native cultural traditions. The exemplar stories are laminated, bound, and given as gifts to an area elementary school with a primarily Native student body. Student authors read the stories to the children, and the books become part of the children's classroom library. The children learn cultural traditions from a young age and see their mentors (often Native students as well) as role models and writers. The authors learn the skills to develop their stories from conception to publication to presentation.Cultural Children's Story Video Lesson
This series of 5 high-quality, standards-aligned, inquiry-based lessons have been field-tested by ...
This series of 5 high-quality, standards-aligned, inquiry-based lessons have been field-tested by the 4K students of Wequiock Children's Center for Environmental Science, their teacher and educational assistant. These lessons encourage students to use natural areas around their school as they improve their science and engineering skills as part of a unit on observing changes. Created as a part of a WISELearn OER Innovation project, Connect, Explore, and Engage: Using the Environment as the Context for Science Learning was a collaboration of the Wequiock Children's Center for Environmental Science and the Wisconsin Green Schools Network. One of the goals of the project was to create standards-aligned lessons that utilize the outdoor spaces of the school . These lessons were created to take place during late winter.
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