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Achievethecore.org :: Instructional Practice Guide - 1 views

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  • The Instructional Practice Guide includes coaching and lesson planning tools to help teachers and those who support teachers to make the Key Shifts in instructional practice required by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).   In order for teachers, colleagues, and instructional leaders to have meaningful and productive conversations about instructional goals and outcomes, there must be shared expectations regarding lesson planning and observation. These tools provide common criteria framed around the Key Shifts required by the CCSS that can be used to facilitate conversations between teachers and coaches about aligning content and instruction. By using these tools to reflect on practice, clear connections can be made between Common Core-aligned lesson planning and classroom instruction--conversations which can supplement information from other established observation protocols that focus on planning and preparation,  classroom management and environment, and professional responsibilities. 
  • daubertt on 11 Oct 15
     
    This page goes over the general idea of instructional practice and goes into lesson planning and has tools to help
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  • Mary Kimani on 12 Oct 15
     
    This website just comes to show how many resources are actually out there for teachers to use and improve their teaching. This website is all about helping teacher achieve the core and in the classroom. There is administrative tools for coaching teachers in instructing the core. Videos of classrooms that follow the core . It seems very similar to the Teaching Channel just this one has a different emphasis.
  • Megan Skiles on 12 Oct 15
     
    A guide on how to use instructional practices.
  • Megan Skiles on 12 Oct 15
     
    A guide on how to use instructional practices.
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Teacher Beliefs and Practices in Advanced Spanish Classrooms - Center for World Languages - 1 views

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  • This paper examines university instructors’ beliefs and practices concerning interaction in advanced Spanish courses with heritage and non-heritage students.
  • As they begin to look for the appropriate Spanish class, Latino students may need to go through some kind of placement test or interview, especially if they have a low level of proficiency in Spanish. A growing number of universities may offer the opportunity for Latino students to take courses within a program for foreign language (FL) students, heritage learners (HL), bilingual students, Spanish Native Speakers (SNS), etc.
  • Teacher beliefs constitute one of the dimensions of teacher cognition, an inclusive concept for the complexity of teachers' mental lives (Borg 2003a) which has become a well-established area of analysis in second language (L2) teaching and learning.
  • Lorena Harger on 12 Oct 15
     
    This resource provides information regarding beliefs and practice in the Spanish classroom with a variety of learners level of proficiency.
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10 Teaching Practices for The 21st Century Teacher ~ Educational Technology and Mobile ... - 4 views

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  • 1- Maintain good communication skills
  • 2- Getting students engagement
  • 3- Use Humour 
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  • 4- Act don't react
  • 5- Be clear and precise in your instructions
  • 6- Give room to individualized learning
  • 7- Positive feedback
  • 8- Involve students in decision making
  • 9- Use peer  learning
  • 10- Love your subject/ job
  • Laura H. on 08 Oct 15
     
    Teaching tips in a 21st century classroom
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  • Katie Upah on 08 Oct 15
     
    I really like the tips presented in this article and agree that I could utilize this resource when I become a teacher because the tips are modern and achievable. I believe this resource is mostly for teacher use because it is entitled "teaching practices for teachers," meaning students probably would not benefit from reading about how to become a better teacher. Rather, teachers can use this resource to discover some easy tips they could easily apply to their classroom to become stronger, 21st century teachers. Another resource that could be considered: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/33-digital-skills-every-21st-century.html. This provides a link to another article on the same site entitled "The 20 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher Should Have."
  • Hannah Hacker on 09 Oct 15
     
    Lots of good tips were given here, I hope that more teacher will discover this resource and learn how to apply this to their classroom.
  • Ping Gao on 09 Oct 15
     
    I like this website as well. It provides practical suggestions
  • Lisa Bindert on 10 Oct 15
     
    This provides good tips for all teachers regardless of whether the class is flipped or traditional. I saved it for my own library.
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Buzzmath - Middle School Math Practice. Anytime, Anywhere. - 0 views

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  • Colleen Griffith on 15 Oct 13
     
    Buzzmath is an interactive website designed for middle school students to practice skills specific to common core. Teachers can create free accounts for limited access or pay for premium accounts. With a premium account, buzzmath will collect data on students progress which makes grouping easier on the teacher. It is a great way for schools with one to one initiatives to incorporate technology into the classroom.
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XtraMath - 0 views

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  • Amber Goemaat on 16 Oct 13
     
    A site for students to practice basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Charts student progress and adjusts their program based on their needs.
  • Amber Goemaat on 16 Oct 13
     
    A site for students to practice basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Charts student progress and adjusts their program based on their needs.
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Nine Strategies for Reaching All Learners in English - 0 views

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  • Readers and Writers Workshop is an instructional model that focuses on students as learners, as well as readers and writers in practice. As readers and writers, students are mentored, working in a supportive and collaborative environment with their mentor on touchstone texts.
  • As a middle school ELA teacher, I continue to collaborate with my peers in the building and across the school district. I participate in planning and designing instruction, inquiry-based studies, and collaborative coaching and learning. These activities have provided me with a repertoire of research-based best practices to engage the readers and writers in my ELA classroom.
  • Provide instruction in basic reading strategies using reciprocal teaching practice that includes predicting, visualizing, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing.
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  • From the first day of school, we encourage students to choose the books they read. We model how to choose and review a book for reading. We also encourage students to choose books at their independent reading level rather than at their frustration or difficult level. Students read for 30 minutes daily and complete an entry on the reading.
  • Teach students to mark or highlight text for main ideas and also for answers to specific questions. Text annotation is an excellent method to make meaning and provide evidence to support answers.
  • Use t-chart graphic organizers to have them identify specific lines from a text and explain their thoughts about the lines.
  • Katie Upah on 08 Oct 15
     
    This article lists 9 general strategies to appeal to all students in the English classroom, both in the middle school and the high school.
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week - 3 Ways to Map Stories | Practical Ed Tech - 0 views

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  • The Tour Builder uses a slide-like format for creating tours. Each slide or stop in the tour can have a date or range of dates attached to it. The tour plays in same sequence as that students build stops in their tours. Have students create the stops in the tour chronologically to tell a timeline story.
  • StoryMap JS is a nice tool for creating mapped stories. On StoryMap JS you create slides that are matched to locations on your map. Each slide in your story can include images or videos along with text.
  • Sarah Ebener on 09 Oct 15
     
    gives examples of how students can tie a map in to a story. Good for history classes, maybe for showing where different battles took place?
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http://www.cccbsi.org/websites/basicskills/images/instructionalpractices.pdf - 0 views

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  • Alexis Johns on 11 Oct 15
     
    Breakdown of 10 instructional practices to improve student learning
  • Ms. Rebecca Carton on 12 Oct 15
     
    This research paper provides an exploration of ten instructional practices that are key to achieving desired student outcomes. This would be a good research to reflect on for my own classroom.
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instructional practice - List | Diigo - 0 views

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  • James Reinhard on 19 Oct 14
     
    James Reinhard's List: instructional practice
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5 Highly Effective Teaching Practices | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • prierj on 15 Nov 17
     
    Another helpful site for soon to be educators, this website talks through struggles a teacher may have and how to overcome them through good practices.
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Best Instructional Practices - 0 views

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  • hannahnolton on 15 Nov 17
     
    This article provides you with four different instructional practices to use in your classroom.
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Social Media for Middle Level Classrooms - 1 views

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  • Thus, many teachers are integrating technology with instruction especially since young adolescents are frequent computer users and find technology very engaging
  • teachers and students feel strongly that technology is an essential learning component because it assists with engagement, makes education relevant to students' lives, and serves as an inspiring force (p. 31).
  • "Additionally, learning experiences are greatly enhanced when all students have the technology to access rich content, communicate with others, write for authentic audiences, and collaborate with other learners next door or across the globe"
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  • Integration of social media has the engagement factor teachers and students seek while enabling students to gain a variety of academic and social skills
  • Kaplan and Haenlein (2010) identify seven types of social media: collaborative projects (e.g., Wikipedia) blogs and microblogs (e.g., Twitter, Kidblog.org) social news networking sites (e.g., Digg and Leakernet) content communities (e.g., YouTube and DailyMotion) social networking sites (e.g., Facebook) virtual game-worlds (e.g., Minecraft, World of Warcraft) virtual social worlds (e.g., Second Life)
  • ncreased student engagement and learning and citizenship education are benefits related to social media use in school.
  • For example, middle grades students can discover how technology-assisted writing can foster innovation, global communication and participation, and creative problem solving with a broader communit
  • Further, Ramsay purports that technology-assisted writing can nurture student creativity, communication, and problem solving skills while developing digital citizens.
  • Additionally, social media helps facilitate differentiation by allowing the needs of creative learners to be met through a cooperative learning environment. Students are better able to balance their individualism with the need for contact with others, allowing new ideas to flourish
  • Social media can help adolescents develop and strengthen collaboration skills as they share knowledge, learn with and from others, and are active in the learning process
  • Therefore, inclusion of social media in education activities is necessary to help increase equity among students of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds by increasing access to information and information technology (Darling-Hammond, Zielezinski, & Goldman, 2014; Grinager, 2006).
  • Darling-Hammond et al. (2014) recommend the following practices to promote optimal learning opportunities for all students: (a) technology access policies should aim for 1:1 computer access and ensure that speedy internet connections are available, (b) policies and practices should favor technology that promotes high levels of interactivity and engagement and that allows for varying learning choices and opportunities, (c) instructional opportunities should enable students to use technology to create content as well as learn material, and (d) learning environments that provide significant and varied levels of teacher support and opportunities for interactions among students as companions to technology use
  • The first issue many educators currently face is equitable access for students and teachers. Further, uncertainty exists on the type and frequency of professional development for middle level educators that addresses ethical and appropriate use of social networking. Additionally, educators must learn how best to help students navigate safely and monitor students in a virtual environment. Lastly, educators must recognize the possibility for distractions and overstimulation that is often linked to certain types of social media and networking activities (Chen & Bryer, 2012).
  • Educators and policymakers need to provide the appropriate technology funding and related professional development so students and teachers have the equipment, knowledge, and skills necessary for taking full advantage of what technology can offer.
  • It is imperative for educators to have professional development opportunities that enable them to learn developmentally appropriate best practices for preparing students
  • AMLE (NMSA, 2010) believes that middle schools must provide adult advocates to middle school students to guide academic and personal development in an inviting, safe, inclusive, and supportive school environment
  • Students need to learn how to make great choices about what they share and what are appropriate actions with others, and always review and manage their online reputations in light of others' ability to contribute to that reputation either positively or negatively with a few clicks of the mouse
  • Edutopia.com, a website published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation and highly regarded by the educational community, provides thoughtful resources on creating social media guidelines for schools.
  • In tandem, teachers must continue to address the issue of plagiarism including how to determine if sources are credible and having clear and consistent plagiarism policies regularly disseminated to students and parents.
  • Research suggests that discussions and collaborations are the most common social media classroom strategies (Chen & Bryer, 2012). Frye, Trathen, and Koppenhaver (2010) proclaim that blogs offer students the ability to publish work and comment on others' writing, which increases motivation.
  • Research shows that social media can increase student learning and engage students who otherwise may be disinterested in the classroom
  • Social media afford[s] the opportunity for all children with online access to contribute to the world in meaningful ways, do real work for real audiences for real purposes, find great teachers and collaborators from around the world, and become great teachers in their own right. (
  • trina79 on 28 Oct 17
     
    The information in this article supports one of the things that my school tech integrationist is trying to get teachers to do with social media. He is asking teachers to do Penpal Schools, which will connect students with other students from around the world. I am going to be having my class do Penpal schools. I also want to try out having my students blog about books we are reading in 7th grade language arts after reading about the benefits of blogging in this article.
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  • msswanson_c9 on 12 Nov 17
     
    How is your school liking PenPals Schools? I started using it in my classroom but found it to be too time consuming and the questions were a bit overwhelming in the project that we chose. My students were also not getting responses in the way that I expected them to. A lot of them were just getting a lot of "hi" from their Pen pals instead of anything useful.
  • butchsaa on 12 Nov 17
     
    Very cool! I really wish I had students at an older age level. Though I can do something like this for 2nd graders it is more difficult with their reading and writing skill levels. Still a pretty cool tool to use for students and teachers alike. Thank you for sharing!
  • lm522791 on 13 Nov 17
     
    Social Media is important. When I was in middle school and high school we didn't learn about social media or how to be safe on the internet. It was more of a foot note than a subject in class that we learned about. Blogging was foreign to me until now. I feel like I have missed a lot because of this.
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Education World - 0 views

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  • ehrenhardr on 15 Oct 13
     
    This website has original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts. I will use it for different lesson ideas and ideas on how to integrate technology into my classroom.
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Effective Instructional Practices - 0 views

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  • Lacie Heiserman on 08 Oct 14
     
    This site has links to two great instructional resources.
  • Lacie Heiserman on 08 Oct 14
     
    This site has links to two great instructional resources.
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Learn Spanish words: Spanish words Learning Games and Worksheets - 0 views

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  • Lorena Harger on 12 Oct 15
     
    Students use this site to practice Spanish words
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Best Education Blogs to Watch in 2015 | ExamTime - 3 views

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  • Anne Pudenz on 08 Oct 15
     
    Provides a list of the 14 best educational blogs to watch in 2015. The blogs range from technology, 21st century skills, eLearning, instructional practices, Web 2.0 tools, and general resources.
  • Kim Carlson on 08 Oct 15
     
    Thank you for this source. People are always asking who should I follow. This list is a great place to start. Teachers will enjoy looking at these and expanding their PLNs.
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23 teaching things | #23teaching - 0 views

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  • Mary Kimani on 11 Oct 15
     
    This free professional learning series will help you to : use digital tools for teaching and learning find and make online resources for learning include e-learning in your teaching practice
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Khan Academy - 1 views

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  • You only have to know one thing:
  • Amanda Eller on 10 Oct 15
     
    Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. I use this site in my math class when we are starting a new unit. My student preview video lessons on this site, and do some practice problems to prepare for the next unit.
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  • Katrina Lint on 11 Oct 15
     
    Khan Academy is for more than math? I never knew! I have used this before to help my ELLs in their math classes. I will have to check out the other options the website offers.
  • Morgan McFate on 12 Oct 15
     
    We just looked at this the other day in our online class! I definitely think this would be a really beneficial as a supplemental resource. Although I wonder would it be worthy enough to use in a lesson or in a classroom? By this I mean is it mainly working through slides and problems? Does it benefit to problem-based learning as much? To me it seems to be mainly for student use in that the teacher doesn't do much in helping other than giving them the links for it.
  • Anna Kron on 12 Oct 15
     
    I definitely think that if I were to use this resource in my classroom, it would be supplemental to my lessons. If students were not understanding the content of the lesson, I would give them the link to the correct videos from this website and ask them to watch. I also could see myself asking students to get a username and log into the site to work on problems so that I could see their understanding of the concepts. I think this resource could be for both student and teacher use: the students watch the videos and work on the problems, the teachers see how students do on the problems and adjust their lessons as necessary. One thing I found interesting about this website is if you click "Test Prep," the only tests that are listed are SAT, MCAT, NCLEX-RN, GMAT, CAHSEE, IIT JEE, and... AP Art History (along with a couple of others that look to be in a different language than English). Why is AP Art History the only AP test included in the test prep?! I think this is an area that this website could expand upon, but don't get me wrong, I think this is a great resource. (In particular, the math videos and lessons of Khan Academy are very strong.)
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY USE AS A LEARNING MECHANISM: THE IMPACT OF IT USE ON...: OneSearch! - 1 views

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  • akmuni on 05 Oct 15
     
    This study contributes to research and practice through the theoretical development and empirical investigation of the role of IT use in organizational learning. We empirically examined the relationship between internal IT use, knowledge transfer effectiveness, absorptive capacity, and franchisee performance on a sample of 783 independently owned franchisees using a comprehensive dataset comprised of both primary and secondary data. The overall results indicate support for the argument that IT use impacts knowledge transfer effectiveness, and absorptive capacity, and that the influence of IT use on firm performance is completely mediated by absorptive capacity. The results are stable across the choice of statistical method and the operationalization of financial performance. Our findings suggest that IT use is an important learning mechanism that enables knowledge outcomes and dynamic capabilities within franchisees. Firms need to recognize these impacts of IT use in order to leverage IT to its fullest extent. This might be more important than ever before, given the rapidly changing business environments and investments in IT-based systems to manage knowledge resources. We hope that the findings of this study encourage the continued examination of the role that IT plays in organizational learning, and the outcomes of such learning.
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