Group items tagged

5 special needs teachers share their strategies through their blogs...

Article about coaching teachers, the necessary training for being a coach, etc. "A principal may see the coach as part of and accountable to the administration. Yet in order for coaching to be effective, teachers need to be able to completely trust a coach and know that what is said and observed will not be repeated to the principal."

This was a thought-provoking article with a lot of interesting ideas around how to use the "back-channel" in the classroom. I was especially taken aback by all of the comments that essentially lambasted these teachers for integrating 21c learning experiences into the classroom. One commenter said: "It needs to be explained to teacher Erin Olson that teachers should be encouraging students to extricate themselves from all the electronic gadgetry and to pay attention." Ah yes, wouldn't it be nice if all of students sat quietly in their desks and listened attentively with their hands folded, ready to take in the sage wisdom of the instructor standing in front of the room. Unreal.

This is a great resource that more schools are mandating links to on their local web site ... Thanks for sharing, Logan.

The leadership group comes together regularly for in-depth discussions about topics such as project learning, technology integration, and authentic-assessment strategies. Then they take ideas back home to share with their colleagues

Earlier this year, the National Staff Development Council released a report, "Professional Learning in the Learning Profession." As the report points out, the United States "is far behind in providing public school teachers with opportunities to participate in extended learning opportunities and productive collaborative communities."

Here are some great introductory resources to help teachers get started with integrating technology into their curriculum.

Great PBS resources and great ideas.

Two schools TMS has worked with were profiled by the Teaching Channel in this video that unpacks the Common Core Standards for elementary schools. Funny that they mention "technology" being integrated throughout the standards, but their example is of teachers watching videos of each other. I happen to know that both schools are doing much more sophisticated work that blends digital media into students' ELA and Math units, but it's not yet on the radar of CCSS evaluators (at least at the time this video was made).

Teacher contributed Google Docs Presentation.  

A good read. How would you respond?

Vinod Khosla talks about the next wave of education reform... there's a lot of best practices that we currently use mentioned here. Good, quick read.

Great apple/iPad ccss focused teacher blogging her day to day exPeriences in concise form. 

Teachers talk about the change in their teaching and in student learning by "flipping" instruction and becoming facilitators/coaches- spending more time working with individual students and groups as opposed to being the "sage on the stage"

Great apple/iPad ccss focused teacher blogging her day to day exPeriences in concise form.

This is a great resource to share with teachers

See then and now pictures of locations in major cities. This is really interesting for NYC teacher and kids.

Check out this site!