Headed to Costco on a Saturday afternoon, you pull your car up to a gas pump, slide your credit card through the reader, select the appropriate grade of fuel and begin pumping. Then you head into the big box store, gather the items on your list, and line them up on a conveyor belt for…
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Learning Objectives Guides are digital books that help teachers shift from just reading state standards to quickly creating lesson plans that focus on the required skills and content. Guides are available for Common Core, Next Generation Science, Literacy, and more for K-12 teachers. View All Guides Frequently at DataWORKS, we are asked what it takes…
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A Primer on How Students (and All Humans) Learn One of the struggles of teaching is presenting often complex material to students in a manner that they can comprehend. Through a basic understanding of how students (and all humans) learn, we, as teachers, can introduce content to our students in a way that will…
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The Next Generation Science Standards Welcome to our weekly Ask DataWORKS blog where we focus on questions from our readers. We recently started this blog, so we don’t have many questions from you yet! What we do have is a list of questions that we receive regularly as we provide training and materials…
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Common Core Assessment Analysis Each state that has adopted Common Core State Standards will select an assessment consortium to assess how children are progressing in school. The two options most widely chosen at this point are: Smarter Balanced and PARCC. Each assessment consortium has provided practice test questions and today we will review one…
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Checking for Understanding is crucial in determining whether students actually learn what is being taught. If you have a set of classroom iPads, Checking for Understanding can be done in a fun and engaging way. Here are four free apps DataWORKS has found to be effective for Checking for Understanding. If you’re looking for an…
DetailsDon’t forget to get your free TAPPLE poster for your class. Download DataWORKS lessons have built-in Checking for Understanding strategies. View Lesson Gallery Checking for Understanding is the best way to verify that students are learning while the teacher is teaching. DataWORKS developed TAPPLE as an easy way to remember the six research-based components of…
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What is Checking for Understanding? Checking for Understanding (CFU) is the backbone of effective instruction. Checking for Understanding is the teacher continually verifying that students are learning what is being taught while it is being taught. CFU provides the teacher the opportunity to improve learning based on student responses throughout the teaching and learning process.…
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Welcome to the first of our series FAQ blogs! We just started this blog, so we don’t have many questions from our readers yet. What we do have is a list of questions that we receive regularly as we provide training and materials for schools, districts, and educators in our everyday work. Today, we are going…
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Teachers throughout the country are preparing their students for the new Common Core Assessments. This does not mean they are teaching to the test; rather, it means they are evaluating what kinds of questions are being asked – and then deciding how to modify their lessons so the students are ready. This is especially important…
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