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PBS Teachers | PBS Teachers Innovation Awards - 0 views

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    PBS teachers- are you an innovative teacher?   The 2011 PBS Teachers Innovation Awards is open for entries through April 14th, 2011
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Simulations Helping New Teachers Hone Skills - 0 views

  • The student-teacher faces a rowdy class. “We’re not going to have that kind of behavior in here,” she says. “It’s too loud in here to move on.” The students don’t pay much attention. A boy in the back row, wearing a sleeveless T-shirt, slumps his shoulders. Another student waves his hand aimlessly. “Nah, just stretching,” he replies, when the teacher asks if he needs something. Scenes such as that aren’t uncommon in urban classrooms, but in this case there is one critical difference: These students are avatars—computer-generated characters whose movements and speech are controlled by a professional actor. Each of the five characters—all with distinct abilities, personalities, and psychological profiles, and even names like “Maria” and “Marcus”—were created as part of the TeachME initiative at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando. There, teacher-candidates can practice in a virtual classroom before ever entering a real one. Real-time classroom simulations like TeachME, supporters say, offer promise for a host of teacher-training applications. Through them, candidates could learn to work with different groups of students, or practice a discrete skill such as classroom management. Most of all, such simulations give teachers in training the ability to experiment—and make mistakes—without the worry of doing harm to an actual child’s learning. “It allows the teacher to fail in a safe environment,” said Lisa Dieker, a professor of education at the University of Central Florida and one of the designers of TeachME. “Real kids, trust me, will remember in May what you said to them in August. You can’t reset children.”
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    video simulation helps new teachers learn classroom management skills
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The Innovative Educator: 6 Ways to Turn Your 1-Computer Classroom Into a Global Communi... - 0 views

  • Support teachers in using technology for professional purposes. Provide teachers with support for securing interactive digital content. Encourage teachers to partner with students to integrate technology into learning. School principal must lead by example. Embed technology integration into teacher and leader evaluation. Support student acquisition and use of technology in schools. Work with students to develop responsible use policies. Secure appropriate permissions from students and their parents.
  • Support teachers in using technology for professional purposes. Provide teachers with support for securing interactive digital content. Encourage teachers to partner with students to integrate technology into learning. School principal must lead by example. Embed technology integration into teacher and leader evaluation. Support student acquisition and use of technology in schools. Work with students to develop responsible use policies. Secure appropriate permissions from students and their parents. As schools put these building blocks in place, they will be able to work to
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360 Degrees of Reflection -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    Describes teacher observation for the 21st century. There is a good TED talk with Bill Gates that describes this. Seems scary, especially the full-time intrusion on the teacher, but the ideas are interesting. What if we gave teachers the opportunity to videotape themselves or have the classroom videotaped for a day and let them watch the tape? Just to let them reflect. Wouldn't that be valuable?
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Critical Explorers - 0 views

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    Gritical Explorers Help teachers involve students in real intellectual work - in thinking critically and constructing knowledge as they investigate historical artifacts and other materials that engage their minds and imaginationsCollaborate with teachers in their classrooms to design and document explorations and to develop and share inquiry-based curricula and instructional approachesPromote the exchange of curricular experiences and ideas through an expanding teacher network, setting the stage for authentic, democratic learning in Greater Boston and beyond.
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https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/F159_02_Teacher_Educator_Framew... - 0 views

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    The British Council's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Framework for teacher educators is a guide to the professional development of all those involved in the education and training of teachers.
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7 Reasons to Learn Apple iBooks Author Now -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    Benefits of Apple's iBooks Author software Schools and teachers should consider using Apple's new iBook Author software as a tool to develop teacher-created texts
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Tweeting for teachers: how can social media support teacher professional development? |... - 0 views

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    white paper from Pearson on "collaborative professional development:" -- CPD
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Legos for the Digital Age: Students Build Imaginary Worlds | MindShift - 0 views

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    gaming in the classroom Elementary computer teacher Joel Levin uses the digital game Minecraft in the second-grade classroom. In the game, players scavenge for resources and use 3D blocks to build projects that can be wholly determined by the user or the teacher. "I'm able to construct these elaborate experiences, settings, and stories for the kids to move through. Rather than having to shoehorn a lesson around a game, I'm able to think about what I'm trying to teach and then design an entire world around that
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Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: An Equal Opportunity Educator - 1 views

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    teacher of the year STEM
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When Teachers Talk Out of School - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Their backers also say that teachers’ freedom of speech is imperiled when we penalize their out-of-school remarks. But these defenders have it backward. The truly scary restrictions on teacher speech lie inside the schoolhouse walls, not beyond them.
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12 Puzzle and Quiz Creation tools for teachers The Whiteboard Blog - 0 views

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    12 Puzzle and Quiz Creation Tools for Teachers
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http://www.cet.uct.ac.za/files/file/FacilitationOnlineWeb.pdf - 0 views

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    PDF course manual for teaching teachers about facilitating online classes
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Basic Digital Skills Every Teacher Should Have ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Lear... - 1 views

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    I think we should make our own version of this. We might have a different take, but I like the idea of a poster like this we could put up.
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TeachPaperless: Exam Day: Demonstrating Understanding through Collaboration and Connection - 0 views

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    interesting description by a history teacher who lets students use the internet for an exam.
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Apple - Punahou School - 0 views

  • curriculum to better prepare students for a working world that increasingly favored the technologically fluent
  • Teachers observed that students were more engaged when using the Mac, and they saw the effect as potentially transformative
  • teachers rarely lecture from the front of the classroom. Instead, they ask questions, then issue clear guidelines and expectations for students to meet. Either alone or in small groups, students research the topic on the Mac to come up with the information they need to answer each question
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    Apple web page touting the benefits of 1 to 1
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http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/nets-c.pdf?sfvrsn=2 - 0 views

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    ISTE NETS for ATSs coaching teachers
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