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Tracy Watanabe

Becoming a 21st Century School or District: Use the 4Cs to Build Professional Capacity ... - 0 views

  • Welcome back to our series on becoming a 21st century school or district! For the earlier installments of this series, please scroll to the bottom of this page. Previously we focused a lot of attention around the 4Cs: Critical thinking Communication Collaboration Creativity
  • Another strategy for using collaboration to transform PD is "peer coaching."
  • Reflections How would you rate the quality of professional development in your school or district? Does your PD challenge your educators to: Think critically and reflect deeply on their practice? Communicate and collaborate effectively? Bring innovative and creative practices to their classrooms? Have you established professional learning communities? Are they focused on the 4C's? Conclusion We have two major recommendations on PD: Be sure your PD exhibits the characteristics of the 4C's; Focus your PD on how teachers teach and assess the 4C's.
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    Building 21st Century Schools with collaboration coaching...
Tracy Watanabe

Free Learning Opportunity: The EdReach Summer Series 1 to 1 On Air | The Edublogger - 0 views

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    Great for our iPad teachers
Tracy Watanabe

Water: The Essential Resource | Connected Educators - 0 views

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    National Geographic and Annenberg are offering a week-long course on water (Oct 9-16), the first in a series of online courses that extend through CEM and beyond, with credit available from the University of San Diego. "Description: Water is an essential theme in social studies, science, and geography. Whether teaching about natural or human systems, water is part of the story. This open online course, framed around California's Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI), focuses on ocean and freshwater topics and strategies for teaching environmental topics in Grades 4-8. Resources and support are provided for how to use EEI to implement Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy."
Patricia Carpenter

Real World Projects- Falcon Quest - 2 views

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    Not sure of age appropriateness. There's so much there, you need to browse Students who may struggle with inference in literature selections in class, may learn inference instead from watching and journaling about the behavior of falcons on a web cam and later analyzing those recorded observations. As the same students compare their personal observations and inferences with those made by professional biologists, they will naturally begin to develop new skills and abilities for interpreting written materials. Website also has a large abundance of other opportunities for projects and language arts lesson ideas.
Tracy Watanabe

ISTE | News > New White Paper, New Standards for Technology Coaching Debut at ISTE 2011 - 0 views

  • ISTE released a new white paper, “Coaching, Technology and Community: Power Partners for Improved Professional Development in Primary and Secondary Education” at its annual conference and exposition, taking place this week at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
Tracy Watanabe

Join Us For The 2014 Edublogs Teacher Challenge! - The Edublogger - 0 views

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    This challenge will help you set up your own class/teacher blog. If you complete the challenge, you can also use it towards the PU Online Blogging Class.
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