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Earth Day Movies for Your Students
Earth Day is about celebrating our planet and supporting environmental protection. It is our responsibility to take care of our home. April 22 is quickly approaching, and it’s important to get your students engaged in [...]
Cyberbullying: What Technology is Doing to Help Keep our Students Safe
Technology has changed since I was in school. I had AOL dial up with parental controls only allowing very specific chat rooms and games, which even back then had levels of cyberbullying. Since children now [...]
Solutions in Ascent: Leveraging Cloud-Based Applications in Education
Education, like most other sectors of the economy, has grappled with a vast array of new tools and technologies that have emerged over the past 10 or 15 years. Amounting to technological adolescence of sorts, [...]
Ways to Incorporate Spring Into Your Classroom
March 20th marks the first day of spring. Here are a few fun activities on how to incorporate spring into your classroom! Tissue Paper Flowers – by Buggy & Buddy These are an easy and inexpensive [...]
Understanding Assessments
Our earlier blog post about creating good test questions briefly mentioned the three main types of assessment categories. Looking for more detailed information about what these are and why they matter? You’ve come to the [...]
How to Write Good Test Questions
Evaluating student performance through tests and assessments plays a large role in measuring student success. The information that educators gain from these help format methods of instruction and advance student learning. Tests and assessments typically [...]
Prepping for the SAT and ACT
The SAT and ACT are two of the biggest exams a student will take. The importance of these exams can create a lot of stress for students, knowing the weight that these will play in [...]
Resource Challenged: The Classroom’s Bare Supply Closet – Part I
Back-to-school supply shopping is essential in order to send children to school prepared and set up for success. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. Studies show that many students are coming to school unprepared and [...]
Measuring Student Success
Measuring student success is a vital course-of-action for educators. It is imperative that teachers can receive data for classroom test averages as well as individual scores in order to assess the needs of the students. [...]
4 Time-Saving Grading Strategies
It’s Sunday night and you can’t put off the looming pile of assignments you’ve got to grade before morning any longer. We’ve all been there. Grading papers and scoring tests isn’t the most exciting part [...]
Finding a Balance with Work and Life
Teaching is a very demanding profession, requiring long hours spent reviewing coursework. Between creating lesson plans, grading tests, and reviewing papers, it seems that teachers never get a break. Not to mention the “normal” 40 [...]
Apperson Helps Students Prepare for the SAT and ACT with new Practice Test Forms that Mimic the Tests
Press release created by KEH Dec 13, 2016. Testing sheets are compatible with the DataLink 1200 scanner giving schools detailed analysis and reporting through DataLink Connect Software In many states, high school juniors are required [...]
14 Uplifting Read-Alouds for Tough Testing Days
Testing season can be stressful for students and their teachers! We asked teachers for their favorite positive, motivational, stress-reducing, hard-work-encouraging and just plain fun read-alouds for those bubble-test kinds of days. Here are 14 favorites. [...]
Why Formative Assessments are Critical for Student Learning
It seems we spend a big chunk of the school year focused on summative assessments. From the big end-of-unit and end-of-semester tests to state standardized testing, this drive toward the final test can leave many [...]
6 Quick-Checks for Comprehension
Sometimes it can be difficult to know whether students are really “getting it” as you move through a unit or lesson. Formative assessments provide in-the-moment insight into student comprehension. Here are six formative assessments that [...]
5 Ways Technology Has Transformed Learning
First things first, technology hasn’t changed the fundamentals of teaching and learning but it sure has transformed how the classroom looks and the role of teachers in it. From electronic whiteboards and tablets to 3-D [...]