On Demand Classes help you meet the needs of your students.
You know the need for 21st Century Information Fluency Skills has never been higher
You also know you’re understaffed and overbooked
Start the new school year with a customized online training experience that will teach your students critical reading skills as they learn to search and evaluate Internet resources. Our multimedia enhanced, interactive course is suited for students from middle school through adult.
We combine performance evaluation with a series mastery quizzes to lock in the essential concepts delivered by the tutorials. As an educator you'll have access to performance evaluation and mastery quiz data. You'll have an online record of each student's performance that can be downloaded for data analysis.
A "free toolkit to help you take ... an effective stand against cyberbullying" (deck, ¶2, retrieved 2011.09.27), beginning with focus questions and an overview, then focusing on elementary, middle, and high school levels
Schoenfeld has said that, ‘Groups are not just a convenient way to accumulate
the individual knowledge of their members. They give rise synergistically to
insights and solutions that would not come about without them.’
Encourage the philosophy in the classroom that “deep thinking is a highly valued
activity.”
have found that (in addition to the familiar strategies associated with
student-driven, authentic inquiry-based projects) scaffolded, collaborative
journal writing is helpful to move kids beyond the social comments.
The elaboration triggers are connecting words or phrases that can be
used to help kids extend their thinking beyond what they might otherwise
attempt. So once they write something, they are encouraged to check the list of
‘elaboration triggers’ to think more deeply.
"Posted by Peter Skillen on Nov 30, 2012 in The How of 21st Century Teaching,
Peter Skillen writes, How CAN we help our students be the kind of thinkers we want?
Several years ago, my friend and colleague, @brendasherry, wrote a thoughtful post called "What is Deep Understanding?"
She asked several excellent questions:
what kind of thinkers do we want our students to be?
what is deep understanding?
can schools really provide the learning environment to nurture and develop it?
In thinking about these questions, I would like to also ask: "How can we help novice learners become more expert learners?"