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CGI Animated Short Film "Joy and Heron" by Passion Pictures | CGMeetup

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Teachers College Reading and Writing Project

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Teachers College Reading and Writing Project

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Lucy Calkins and Colleagues Units of Study

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A Workshop Curriculum - Grades K-8

by Lucy Calkins and Colleagues from TCRWP

Dear Teachers,
I couldn't be more delighted to be sharing this work with you. It is the understatement of a lifetime to say that Units of Study grow out of years of work in thousands of classrooms. This series also grows out of the greatest minds and most beautiful teaching that I've seen anywhere. To write the Units of Study, my colleagues at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and I have done what teachers throughout the world do all the time. We've taken all that we know-the processes, sequences, continua, books, levels, lessons, methods, principles, strategies...the works-and we've made a path for children, a path that draws all we know into a cohesive, organic progression. Our hope is that this path brings children along to the place where they can write clearly and skillfully and read flexibly and joyfully-and can live together as caring, thoughtful readers and writers. Lucy Calkins

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Units of Study Reading, Writing & Classroom Libraries by Lucy Calkins

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Lucy Calkins Units of Study Series for teaching reading and teaching writing from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project.

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These classroom resources provide core curriculum and instruction while guiding your professional growth. Our authors expand upon the ideas introduced in their professional books, model effective instructional strategies, and provide "ready-to-use" resources - including teaching materials and lesson plans - written to support your daily instruction.

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Heinemann | Publisher of professional resources and provider of educational services for teachers

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Heinemann is a publisher of professional resources and a provider of educational services for teachers and educators from kindergarten through college.

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Character arc

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McKayla Maroney (USA) -  2012 London Olympics - Event Finals - Vault 1

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CGI Animated Short: "Runaway" - by Susan Yung, Emily Springer, Esther Parobek + Ringling | TheCGBros

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2017 CAP Awards: Sara Abou Rashed "I am America."

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Autumn Peltier, 13-year-old water advocate, addresses UN

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When is skipping school more important than attending? When is a child's design more effective than a professional's? When are children more responsible than adults? On September 20th, millions of children, led by the activist Greta Thunberg, took to the streets to protest the world's inaction on climate change. Here are some of the signs made by children who participated in the New York City march. Inspiring and confrontational, these signs provide a visual counterpoint to the individual voices of our children as they plead with the powers that be to act, and act responsibly.

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Children Lead the Way: A Gallery of Youth-Made Climate-Strike Signs

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When is skipping school more important than attending? When is a child's design more effective than a professional's? When are children more responsible than adults? On September 20th, millions of children, led by the activist Greta Thunberg, took to the streets to protest the world's inaction on climate change.

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Daily questions inspired by Times content from across sections. Join the conversation!

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Alternative Mini Lesson Planning Template (only available as a PDF-sorry)

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Alternative Mini Lesson Planning Template (only available as a PDF-sorry)

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Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity

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Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity [Sibbet, David] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity

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Grade 7 Literary Virtual Reading Performance Post-Assessment Tools-1

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Grade 7 Literary Virtual Reading Performance Pre-Assessment Tools

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Grade 8 Literary Virtual Reading Performance Post-Assessment Tools

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Grade 8 Literary Virtual Reading Performance Pre-Assessment Tools

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From TCRWP (older readers/writers

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Using a Learning Progression to Support Self-Assessment and Writing about Themes in Literature: Small Group Work (3-5)

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Lucy Calkins and Colleagues at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project present Using a Learning Progression to Support Self-Assessment and Writing about Themes in Literature: Small Group (3-5)

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Whats it Mostly About - Test Prep Center - 2022

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2023 TCRWP Test Prep: Practice Materials

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click here for all passages used in whole class instruction https://tcrwp.padlet.org/TCRWP/testprepwholegroup

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Screen-free note-taking can help students learn how to organize their thoughts-and make assessing learning easier for teachers.

We all saw it over and over during the pandemic year: In the face of remote and hybrid learning, students spent hours tethered to iPads and Chromebooks, all day, every day. While such technology thankfully allowed for online learning that would have been inconceivable a decade ago, excessive screen time has been linked to a host of deleterious effects.

In a bid to reclaim some balance between digital and analog learning, I will require students to use paper notebooks this coming year. Paper notebooks can help draw young people's attention away from screens, and they offer several educational benefits.

Organization

Using a notebook compels students to become more deliberate in the organization and presentation of their notes. Plenty of apps provide ways to create and manage notes, but I've found that using notebooks places more responsibility on the students to find, adapt, and stick to a method that works best for them.

Moreover, when students zero in on and practice a note-taking system that can keep them organized, they're building a lifelong skill that can help them process and transcribe data and facts efficiently, which is relevant for a variety of professions.

I plan on coaching my students on the Cornell Note-taking System so they can consistently organize takeaways from lectures and questions. I'll also share with them how handwriting, legibility, and even aesthetics take on more importance when writing in a notebook and encourage them to develop symbols or shorthand techniques to quickly capture information from fast-moving lectures or slide shows.

Fewer Distractions

Students using devices to take notes are often bombarded with updates, messages, and notifications, plus they're distracted by the ever-present temptation to search the web. Authentic learning, however, requires concentration and deep, uninterrupted immersion in a topic.

According to University of Michigan medical professor Michael Hortsch, constant distractions might inhibit the mind's ability to retain information. Similarly, psychologist Daniel Goleman has noted that the ability to focus is "more important than IQ or the socioeconomic status of the family you grew up in for determining career success, financial success, and health."

Students might assert that they can adeptly juggle a multitude of tasks. However, research indicates that humans are not wired to multitask: According to the Cleveland Clinic, multitasking makes us " less efficient and more prone to errors."

Paper notebooks alone won't solve the crisis of concentration or the multitasking problem. Students will continue to daydream and doodle, but carving out a tech-free time to take notes or answer questions on paper allows students a short reprieve from digital distractions.

Note-Taking by Hand

Taking notes by hand (as opposed to typing) aids learning and the retention of information. According to Cindi May, a professor of psychology at the College of Charleston, "Students who used longhand remembered more and had a deeper understanding of the material."

A study by Pam A. Mueller of Princeton University and Daniel M. Oppenheimer of UCLA compared students who typed notes with ones who took notes by hand. They found little statistical difference in either group's ability to recall simple facts, but students who took notes by hand answered "conceptual application" questions-subjective, higher-level questions-better than those who typed notes. For teachers who don't wish to mandate paper notebooks, there are note-taking apps such as Notability, Noteshelf, and GoodNotes that allow students to use a stylus to take notes by hand.

Whatever the method, taking notes by hand will also give students much-needed practice for college, where they may not be allowed to use electronics in the classroom.

Progress Monitoring and Grading

When I review my students' notebooks, I can quickly see if they're following directions and keeping up with the material satisfactorily or if they're taking disorganized or incomprehensible notes. In the latter case, I can instruct them on how to take better notes. I may deduct points from the assignment if the student does not adhere to an orderly system. In one class, I made notebook grades equivalent to assessment grades, a great incentive for students to maintain organized, high-quality notes.

When I graded notebooks before Covid, once every two weeks I collected them (usually on test day). I randomly chose one set of questions I had assigned for homework or notes from a lecture I had given. I checked that each student had the answer or lecture notes in their notebook in the appropriate section, dated correctly, and in the style I had instructed them in. For instance, I required complete sentences for all answers. In the case of answers to textbook or in-class questions, I typically checked for correctness.

When I require and grade notebooks, I find that I limit the amount of grading I have to do, and grading, on the whole, becomes easier. Because students don't need to turn in every assignment, I can check one, several, or all of the components of assignments in batches when they turn in their notebooks.

Teachers can grade notebooks in a multitude of ways: organization, completion, legibility, correct answers for questions, etc.

An Opportunity for Creativity

One might think that a traditional notebook excludes opportunities for the student to think creatively, but this is not the case. Ask students to pause, look at their notes, and sketch an image next to key points. (Drawing helps with retention and memory.) Try incorporating Doodle Notes, or have students transform their paper notebooks into colorful interactive notebooks.

I have asked students to create maps on blank paper, or label and color predrawn maps, before cutting them out and gluing them in their notebooks. Having students utilize not only a pen and paper for class, but also colored pencils, markers, tape, glue, and scissors, can benefit students by adding a tactile dimension to note-taking.

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Screen-free note-taking can help students learn how to organize their thoughts-and make assessing learning easier for teachers.

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Paper vs. Digital: What's the Best Way to Take Notes?

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Paper vs. Digital: What's the Best Way to Take Notes?

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Online Tutoring, Homework Help | Train the Brian

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School is back in session, so it's time again for that ever important question: Which are better: Paper or digital notes? One camp on this issue says, "Who cares, as long as students are taking notes!?" but the students taking the notes usually have pretty clear opinions one way or another. So what are the advantages of each type of notetaking and which has been proven most effective?

Digital Notes

The advantage of digital notetaking is that so much of a student's work is done online today, that copying and pasting information makes note-taking a whole lot easier. With that simplicity, notes also become much more efficient. Students can work together with classmates to share a Google doc and add to each other's notes, comment and clarify questions for each other, and work together as a team to make sure their notes are effective and efficient.

Another amazing part of digital notes is that they can be taken everywhere without a massive notebook or binder. This means that students are free to study or reference their notes wherever they go. If they're feeling strapped for time and have a few minutes before a doctor appointment or practice, digital notes can be pulled up on their phone or other connected device to provide easy access for study time.

Organization can be wildly difficult for middle and high school aged students. Sure, some students excel at keeping themselves organized, but we've all seen that student whose backpack spills out with every scrap of paper other than the one they need! Maybe you've parented a student like that or are that student, and you cringe at the thought of the many assignments that went missing despite it being completed. Digital notetaking eliminates the physical clutter of paper notes, but you still have to organize them into file folders to make sure they're going to be handy when you need them.

Paper Notes

On the other hand, paper notes offer some advantages that students might not automatically identify because they often take more effort than the copy/paste convenience of their digital counterparts. The most important aspect of paper notes to recognize is that scientists have actually studied the effectiveness of digital versus paper notes and have found that paper notes are simply more effective if students are using them to learn and remember what they're learning. Since it would be a rare student who took notes "just for the fun of it," that's a pretty important piece of information to take into consideration.

Although studies have been proving this to be true since the start of the digital notetaking option, one study entitled "The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking" by Pam A. Mueller from Princeton University and Daniel M. Oppenheimer from the University of California found that hand written notes are best, as their article's clever title indicates.

In an interview, Mueller said, "When people type their notes, they have this tendency to try to take verbatim notes and write down as much of the lecture as they can. The students who were taking longhand notes in our studies were forced to be more selective - because you can't write as fast as you can type. And that extra processing of the material that they were doing benefited them." Over the course of three different studies, the researchers noted a significant lack of processing in the notes of students who used a digital format versus hand written.

In other words, hand written notes force students to think about what they're writing down, making them think more deeply about what the message means and how to boil it down into simpler terms. This is a higher level processing and thinking skill than copying word-for-word. This is an amazing advantage given to hand written notes!

Another benefit of hand written notes is that students connect more personally when they see their own handwriting rather than the sanitized typed version of digital notes. It's no secret that our brains like what our brains produce! When your brain sees its own handwriting, the connection to the message is naturally stronger. Your brain recognizes the loops in the letter "s" you make, the funny slant you have the habit of adding to the letter "r," and the way you always dot the letter "i" above the letter after it. This helps the message of the notes sink in more and makes them more productive and useful.

Personal Preference

The one consideration that everyone needs to make is personal preference. If a student is willing to put in more time studying their digital notes, then they can end up being just as effective as hand written. Likewise, a student who prefers to write their notes has to be sure to keep them organized and tidy. When it comes to taking notes, you can find advantages and disadvantages to each, so finding the type of note that helps you perform at your highest potential academically might take some experimenting and some experience. Stick with it, and just don't stop taking notes! They are a valuable resource to students, young and old.

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Paper Vs. Digital: What's The Best Way To Take Notes?

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School is back in session, so it's time again for that ever important question: Which are better: Paper or digital notes? One camp on this issue says, "Who cares, as long as students are taking notes!?" but the students taking the notes usually have pretty clear opinions one way or another.