{"id":1729,"date":"2018-07-15T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2018-06-27T13:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T13:01:33","slug":"quality-vs-quantity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2018\/07\/15\/quality-vs-quantity\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality vs Quantity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1730 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/06\/abc123-273x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/06\/abc123-273x300.png 273w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/06\/abc123.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/>As teachers look to the new school year, most are searching for ways to make quality more important than quantity. It\u2019s a shift to making every problem, essay, writing stronger rather than longer. Here are a few ideas to tuck away as you plan.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plan activities that promote student skill development while interacting with others. Sharing ideas and understandings add building blocks to their understanding of any topic. It\u2019s a chance to share, evaluate, and come to decisions based on discovery based on facts gathered and assessed.<\/li>\n<li>Set attainable standards but encourage students to each beyond your expectations, to challenge their understanding, to question information.<\/li>\n<li>Share your work standards. They may look something like this:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Head your work properly \u2013 name, subject, date, stated topic as needed.<\/li>\n<li>Meet the timeline (date due).<\/li>\n<li>Work for neatness so others can easily read your work.<\/li>\n<li>Understand the specific goal for completing your assignment.<\/li>\n<li>Spend time editing and revising you work to make it as clear\/succinct as possible to others<\/li>\n<li>Revisit and evaluate your scored work with the goal of better understanding how to strengthen your outcome on future assignments.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As teachers look to the new school year, most are searching for ways to make quality more important than quantity. It\u2019s a shift to making every problem, essay, writing stronger rather than longer. Here are a few ideas to tuck away as you plan. Plan activities that promote student skill development while interacting with others.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2018\/07\/15\/quality-vs-quantity\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,301,20,281,320,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-to-school","category-classroom-tips","category-engaging-students","category-independent-skills","category-planning-for-next-year","category-teacher-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}