Emerging Strategies in Teaching and Learning

Education Week writers offer key takeaways from their recent reporting on emerging teaching practices during the pandemic.

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Research has shown that high-dosage tutoring can support learning gains and help students get back to grade-level learning in an accelerated manner. As schools continue to navigate the issues related to the pandemic, join Istation for a timely presentation filled with actionable advice for implementing high dosage tutoring at your school or district.

This presentation will explore these key characteristics:

• Steps to designing an effective high-dosage tutoring program
• How schools can build tutoring into the day to support student growth
• How Istation can support your high-dosage tutoring implementation

Strategies to extend school time and flip class time gained ground in the last two years with the need for more flexible instruction. Education Week reporters Evie Blad and Elizabeth Heubeck will discuss how these approaches are evolving with the Education Trust’s Allison Socol and Lisa Leaheey, English teacher at North Providence High School in Rhode Island.

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“Sketchnoting,” or “visual notetaking,” is increasingly being recognized as a legitimate form of notetaking that is surprisingly effective at improving retention of information.

In this session, we will:

• Explore the brain science behind sketchnoting’s effectiveness
• Discuss how to get started even if you think you cannot draw
• Share resources for further exploration
  

Teachers at all grade levels are using sketchnoting with students to encourage synthesizing information rather than trying to merely take dictation during a lesson. Business has even seen growth in the use of “visual facilitators,” professional sketchnoters who make visual notes during a meeting or presentation. Sketchnoting is for everyone.

National education groups advocate acceleration to help students overcome academic disruptions during the pandemic–but what does that look like in practice? Education Week reporter Sarah Schwartz talks with Saugus public schools about how they’ve ramped up student learning.

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Age of Learning believes that all children can excel in math and reading.

Personalized mastery learning meets each child with their own learning path and empowers them to succeed at their own rate. This is an instructional shift for educators. We no longer teach to grade level. Rather, we meet each child where they are.

You will learn about our Architecture of Understanding, and how these instructional shifts for educators can be smooth and equitable for children. Educators will learn how data moves the dial for success and how mastery learning gets to the heart of each child’s knowledge base.

Educators say teaching during the pandemic was like building a plane while flying it. Education Week reporter Sarah D. Sparks and data specialist Alex Harwin dig into the academic and social-emotional strategies that educators say have the potential to go the distance in boosting student learning.