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Making the Most of a 90-Minute Block

…ok a lot intimidated by this but after reading the article I feel more secure and less stressed. Btw I was hired two days before school starts and am teaching both online and in the classroom. Thanks again Brian I am using Google Meets and Canvas this year, teaching 4 different courses. I am looking forward to seeing how we can better instruct our students virtually using all of the tools available online. Thank you for all of these ideas and resources. Jim Parrish The focus must be on content being a continuous learning experience. There is also the discussion…

Episode 53: How to Approach Your Teaching Like a Master Chef

…the times that you’ve fallen down, and the stories that you tell really resonated with me from my early years of teaching, and my later years of teaching, honestly. And I think that really is going to help readers to connect with you and realize that you are not speaking from a pedestal. That this is coming from on-the-ground experience and times that you screwed up. And the nice thing is that you’re not presenting something that is like, “Oh, well, this is how you can make your teaching perfect.” It’s more of the spirit of experimentation and trying crazy…

Episode 70: How HyperDocs Can Transform the Way You Teach

…good lesson or a set of lessons. HILTON: It’s true. And really, what it comes down to is as classroom teachers, we are always doing this. This is what we love is to come together and talk about good instruction. For example, if you have this learning objective with your students where you might want to be teaching them … I have a sample that we’re going to be sharing on the link to the podcast. The sample that’s shared starts with the learning objective of teaching students about the 50 United States, but how can I think differently about…

Episode 226 Transcript

…GONZALEZ: So the last question I’m going to ask all of you, you’re all doing great work online. And so where would be the best place for people to find you and connect with you online? K.C., we’ll go ahead and start with you and work our way backwards. BOYD: Sure, no problem. You can find me everywhere pretty much online @Boss_Librarian. My students gave me that nickname several years ago because they said, “She’s so doggone bossy.” So it stuck. So boss_librarian. GONZALEZ: Okay. And Barbara? PACIOTTI: Well, one of my teachers called me the goddess of all that…

Introducing the One-Sentence Lesson Plan

…activity will you employ to make sure they get it? Here’s where students wrestle with the content/skill. The HOW is typically hands-on. Using the previous example, I might use one of the following: Students will be able to evaluate the credibility of online sources by “triangulating” information. Students will be able to evaluate the credibility of online sources by asking critical questions such as, “Does the author cite or provide links to research?” Students will be able to evaluate the credibility of online sources by discussing in groups the pros and cons of each source. The first two versions focus…

Teaching Students to Legally Use Images Online

…their work that automatically gives others permission to use that work in their own projects under specific terms and conditions. A photographer, for example, might use a Creative Commons licenses on a collection of her photographs, so that anyone who finds them online can easily check the chosen license and follow the restrictions of use specified in that license. If your students want to use images they find online, they should look for images that have Creative Commons licenses. You can learn about all of the licenses here, but the safest bet is to steer students toward pictures that have…

How HyperDocs Can Transform Your Teaching

…Hyperdoc templates. You can modify any of these to fit your specific goals. Debby With the corona virus outbreak China is all online teaching at the moment. Unfortunately, many of the resources listed don’t work here; google, one note, moodle. We have PowerSchoolLearning and are using zoom for face to face classes. Access to technology is a huge problem. After two weeks I still have kids that can’t get online. Right now all some of them can do is download a worksheet, fill it out and take a photo to send it back to me. I was really hoping for…

How to Teach When Everyone is Scattered

…specific ideas about teaching K-1 in a concurrent model, I’m really struggling with how to best do this. Tricia Kriese You mentioned putting all students on zoom. I am teaching students in person and on-line at the same time. Is there a way to group students at home with those in person? I have tried, but the feedback loop seems to make it impossible. Thanks! Debbie Sachs Hey Kristi, Check out The Concurrent Classroom: Using Blended Learning Models to Teach Students In-person and Online Simultaneously by Catlin Tucker. It’s a good one! Susie Fantastic post. Thank you for the great,…

Episode 120: How One District Learned to Talk About Race

…staff and they go into expressing their thoughts, their feelings, their experiences, and there’s a dialogue that takes place online, and I find, you know, it’s pretty interesting that you can do this as an online platform as opposed to exclusively doing it in person. GONZALEZ: Yeah. WATKINS: And it was interesting, because we actually found that the conversations were more authentic. And unfortunately, and I say this as I, because social media has created a platform for people to say things they wouldn’t say in public, it meant that it also gave the online user the safety of saying…