Transition to Next Generation Assessment Systems for NJ Schools
Special Education

Transition to Next Generation Assessment Systems for NJ Schools

- by Randy Wilson

The New Jersey Department of Education has recently become an active partner of PARCC. PARCC, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is a consortium of states. The goal with this consortium is to create and build a common group of assessments in English and math for college students in kindergarten through senior year of secondary school and also to supply a benchmark to make certain students are stored on pace to have core skills to reach your goals in college and/or their respective careers.

These new K-12 assessments will develop a pathway to college and career readiness by the end of secondary school, mark students’ progress toward this goal from 3rd grade up, and supply teachers with timely information to share with instruction and supply student support. The PARCC assessments will likely be ready for states to administer throughout the 2014-15 school year. PARCC received …

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Useful Insights About Educators
Continuing Education

Useful Insights About Educators

- by Randy Wilson

Many customers usually are not that pleased with the type of car insurance coverage they’ve got. High costs of insurance policies are viewed being the major reason that is so.

However, this is not true for teachers – it’s great if you’re one too. Lecturers who happen to get members of education associations or perhaps the National Education Association are given substantial discounts using automobile insurance premiums.

Rebates are granted because educators are thought to get probably the most stable professions. Furthermore, just as one educator can be regarded as a noble career that they deserve to get granted privileges.

With relation to obtaining automobile insurance for teachers, you’ll be able to take advantage of your good driving record–lecturers are rated as “above average drivers”. That is an operating factor why insurance corporations are granting discounts to lecturers.

Useful Insights About Educators

One more significant thing to note is the fact that insurance organizations …

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Learning Technologies and Other Modern Teacher Resources
Education Week

Learning Technologies and Other Modern Teacher Resources

- by Randy Wilson

It is amazing as an adult to steer right into a modern-day classroom. They are simply so different from those who work in which we remember learning. The blackboards have substituted for whiteboards, the rulers happen to be replaced by smartphones, and perhaps the teachers are already replaced by robots! Just kidding (for a few of my older readers who may be concerned). But it is quite normal these days to find out classes taught entirely or partially on computers. The amount of learning technologies that have found their way into the classroom is amazing. And they have helped facilitate teaching and student learning during the last decade. Some of these educational technologies are class websites, mobile devices, podcasts, and e-learning products.

Class Websites

Class websites make a perfect and easy way for teachers to facilitate online learning. While traditional courses are still held, teachers have the opportunity to create …

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Life in the World of Virtual Educators
Adult Education

Life in the World of Virtual Educators

- by Randy Wilson

Remember the time when we were required to wake up early morning, dress, and drive to the office? Well, now you’ll be able to lay on your sofa, with your pajamas having a laptop available and work since this is the time of technological revolution. No need to be worried about the details of conventional work life when you can enjoy work and life concurrently. This goes for teachers and educators too that are sick and tired with driving to schools and colleges to train within the same institute and also the same classroom every single day.

The expression used just for this form of education is Virtual Education meaning students, as well as the teachers, are separated by space, time, or both and the teacher provides course content through the use of methods such as course management applications, multimedia resources, the Internet, and videoconferencing. So the teachers educate by …

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Educator Jobs - Exactly What Are Their Tasks?
Education Week

Educator Jobs – Exactly What Are Their Tasks?

- by Randy Wilson

We often see educator jobs as something easy and effortless. As such my perception was wrong. They’ve probably the most difficult job on the planet. We surely can’t blame such assumptions in the rest, since we simply tend to see teachers within the classroom lecturing staff and the like. However, partly their job. They even pursue more.

It is no wonder that teaching is known as one noble profession. Because in the back of it they do not simply teach the lessons available, they even do more. Thus, it will be a good idea to think things through and be aware of the back-end of the teacher won’t only within the context of a classroom. Thus, underneath are some necessary an instructor you might want to have a look at.

Task 1: Prepare lessons.

As a school teacher, it is a must to layout and will prepare the lessons before …

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