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A 4-Part System for Getting to Know Your Students

…last spring. I am looking forward to learning about my students perspectives and needs around online learning! Jordana Benone The “How’s It Going?” check-in? A perfect resource to use after every unit while teaching online this fall! We are all getting used to new instructional delivery methods and I think that means getting regular student feedback (after all, many of us are trying something new). I added a few questions about whether they found the synchronous tasks engaging and a good use of time, and the asynchronous tasks manageable with enough choice. So grateful for this! Clay Ray, it is…

Episode 62: The Apollo School

…groups, and then they’re meeting back with the teacher again. We have online courses where students check-in once a week with their teacher, but the rest of the work is done online. So mass customized learning isn’t necessarily Apollo. Apollo is one spoke of that wheel. GONZALEZ: Oh, I got it. So the whole school is actually running on mass customized learning, and you are one of the options. WARD: Yeah. Our whole district has subscribed to that philosophy from Bea McGarvey and Chuck Schwahn’s book. We just happened to have this idea at the perfect time and place and…

13 Stunning Places to Publish Student Art and Writing

…you’ve had direct experience with any of these, please share what you know in the comments. Enjoy! Illustration by Chungha Lim, Grade 12 The Blue Pencil editor-selected Age Range: 12-18 Accepts: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays 2017 Update: The Blue Pencil is no longer available. As I read the Spring 2014 issue of The Blue Pencil Online, one thought occurred to me over and over: Man, this stuff is good. And dark. Edited and produced by the students at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts, the online magazine is published about once a year. In addition, all…

How Pineapple Charts Revolutionize Professional Development

…your experience with Pineapple Charts! We’re so happy it went so well. Katy Hudak I’m a little late to this party, but really love this idea. We want to try to make this work but are struggling to come up with a central location that works. A question: has anyone used a “virtual” chart with online sign-ups? My gut tells me a physical meeting spot is ideal, but I’m wondering whether this might work as an alternative. Any experience with a pineapple chart located online???? Debbie Sachs Katy, I don’t know of anyone who’s done online pineapple charts; hopefullly someone…

How to Write a Syllabus

…the best way to meet project, or school year goals, is to constantly have the plan in front of your team: students, parents and support staff. If you expect success without a plan, and if you don’t expect the plan to change and evolve, you have been around very long. Let’s burden not our teachers, but their districts to generate (online) syllabus templates, teachers can post as is, tailor or update as needed. How awesome would it be, and how much better would it be than looking at report cards or even online portals that report test and HW scores…

Episode 192 Transcript

…I figured it was worthwhile to separate them so people can find them later if they’re looking for that particular name. Both of these are strategies that we both agree that teachers of any content area could probably apply to their teaching, but your specialty area is writing. So before we get into the strategy that we’re going to start with, tell us a little bit about what you do in teaching. MEEHAN: So writing has always been a passion of mine, as far as teaching is concerned, from the time that I first started teaching in [inaudible] school for…

Episode 163 Transcript

…can deliver the highest-quality digital curriculum on Kiddom’s flexible platform and continue teaching in any environment. Educators love their teacher-friendly platform with options to engage in discourse online or in-person, and students love Kiddom for how easy it is to see their assignments, and complete their work interactively. Choose from their curriculum menu or import your existing curriculum to bring it to life with Kiddom. Request a demo today at teach.kiddom.co/pedagogy. Support also comes from Kialo Edu. Kialo Edu is a free online platform that facilitates discussions and debates with students—from middle school all the way up to university level….

Are You Making the Most of Your Interactive Whiteboard?

…you get stuck, remember that anything online that your school allows access to can now become part of your classroom: This means Skype calls, webinars, online discussion boards, and up-to-the-minute news articles are just a click away. And the tools you have on your computer are there, too: presentation software, word processing, and games can now be built into your instruction, for your use and the students’. Go easy on the bells & whistles. A 2009 study conducted by Marzano & Haystead found a 16 percentile point increase in achievement in students whose teachers used IWBs effectively. Teachers who…

Episode 124: A Closer Look at Open Educational Resources

…or once things got online, you could just look stuff up and find free things online. So when, when did this sort of become an actual thing that had a name, you know, OER versus just people randomly sharing free stuff online? VAITES: Gosh, that’s a really good question. And I would, I would point someone to the Creative Commons website if they really wanted to dive into, you know, the deeper history. But it’s been in the last 10 years that we’ve seen, we’ve seen enough of these materials coming, to become available, created by different providers that actually…