Education Special Section
planned activities guided by teachers
and designed to prepare students for a
kindergarten-type setting. Either method
for learning prepares young children for
their future interactions, both socially and
educationally. Finding the learning style
that best suits your own child’s needs will
set him/her up for success.
K-12 EDUCATION
It is early in education that
students start to become
competent in utilizing the tools needed in
our society. Reading, writing, math and
language skills are all core competencies
that need to be mastered at a young age
and are critical for a student’s success.
Education is being shaped by incorporating
different styles of teaching, accessing new
technologies to enhance learning, and
ensuring that students leave high school
with a sense of confidence to enter the
workforce or to continue on to higher
education. A variety of trends, disruptions
and technologies are shaping the way K-12
schools face their biggest challenges.
Engage Parents and Caregivers
Parents can’t advocate for their children
if they aren’t given the tools to do so. The
National Education Association states that
by monitoring, supporting, and advocating
for their students, parents and caregivers
can ensure that their children have an
opportunity to be successful in school. By
working with your students to set goals,
make sure they are on track for academic
success, holding them responsible for their
education, and advocating for them, their
WHERE LEARNING
peers, and their entire school community,
you are doing a service that will have a
valuable outcome for all involved.
Data and Analytics
Relationships between K-12 teachers
and college educators used to be solely
focused on college transition programs.
Now, the focus is shifting to partnerships
based on formal research studies,
professional development, or joint
technology and curriculum initiatives,
as EdTech Online states. Data-driven
research is being gathered and assessed
by college educators and results are being
implemented in the form of metrics to
keep individual students on track to
graduate. If an individual student falls “off
track,” teachers utilize that information
to determine a course of academic
intervention. This form of individualized
learning is being employed across the
country with positive results.
Adaptive Learning Technology /
Resources
Addressing individual learning gaps
continues to be at the top of priority lists
for student achievement in the classroom.
Adaptive learning technologies have
already proven successful in the classroom
and are a growing piece of the education
puzzle. As the infrastructure needed
to support these types of initiatives is
more easily accessible and widespread,
teachers are finding ways to incorporate
these technologies into blended learning
programs, according to EdTech Update.
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