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Tiffany Hoefer

Harry & Rosemary Wong: Effective Teaching - Teachers.Net Gazette - 0 views

  • The I Can’t Funeral Amanda ended her first day of school with an “I Can’t Funeral.” “This is a stolen treasure that has worked wonders for my class.  During my years of college I had to bring in a classroom method that I wanted to use in my class.  While browsing the Internet I came upon a true jewel,” she said. The I Can’t Funeral started with every student thinking of one thing they either did not feel successful in last year, or that often made them think, “I can’t do that.”  They each wrote their “I Can’t” on an index card.  Then, while playing very sad music, they placed the card in a “funeral box” and said their farewells to their “I Can’ts.”  They buried the “I Can’t” funeral box in Amanda’s car trunk. Amanda informed her students they were burying the words “I Can’t,” and wouldn’t be seeing them again.  They would dig up the funeral box at the end of the school year and celebrate how they had conquered their “I Can’ts.” Amanda said, “The students really enjoyed this, and I assured them each thing they couldn’t do or felt unsure about would be mastered during the school year.  It was an awesome day.” In January Amanda sent a note saying, “My students often ask when we are going to resurrect our ‘I Can’ts!’ . . . I often hear students saying they just conquered their ‘I can’t’ and we high five.” 
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    Highlighted area is just one good example of a nice teaching tool that some teachers could use for effective classroom teaching. Could be used as an example and ask teachers in the PD certificate to share another one. Teachers.Net Gazette may actually be a good resource as part of the curriculum build (have teachers locate an archived article and choose something they would implement.)
Tiffany Hoefer

Effective Classroom Management - 0 views

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    Website about classroom management - mostly behaviorist theory. Some good graphs and short explanations of behavior management and token reinforcement systems. Not much depth of content, but may be helpful for quick reference.
Tiffany Hoefer

Classroom Management Strategies: Top 10 Rules, Organization Plans - 1 views

  • These lessons may be freely copied and used in a classroom but they remain the copyrighted property of the author.
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    Site offers middle school and high school teachers ideas to help with class syllabus, class policy, parent-teacher communication, and other. Provides many classroom management strategies for grading policies, class rules, classroom procedures, late work, substitutes, managing groups, establishing a safe classroom environment, and so much more. Nice depth of material.
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    note highlight regarding free use - is completely free to use, but copyrighted to owner. owner does not release under cc license
Teachers Without Borders

My Life as a Refugee - UNHCR - 1 views

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    "Every minute eight people are forced to flee war, persecution or terror."
Tiffany Hoefer

Using Discussion Boards and Wikis - 0 views

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    Discussion boards and wikis can supplement class instruction, extend class discussion, or introduce new topics. If they are effectively designed, they can encourage students to think critically about course concepts and deepen their level of comprehension. This document describes ways to implement these strategies within a course.
Tiffany Hoefer

Creating and Using Interactive Lectures - 1 views

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    Interactive lectures include lecture material interspersed with short activities that call upon students to review or develop their knowledge of the lecture topic. This module describes some of the benefits of using interactive lectures. Descriptions and examples of selected interactive lecture strategies are also given.
Tiffany Hoefer

Collaboration and Learning: Managing Groups - 0 views

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    This document describes ways to implement structure in group projects for effective collaborative learning. Aspects of group membership, individual and group accountability, and grading group work are discussed.
Tiffany Hoefer

Educational Psychology - 0 views

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    "A comprehensive educational psychology textbook, written by Kelvin Seifert and Rosemary Sutton, for the Global Text Project. Topics covered include student development and diversity, classroom communication and assessment, and much more."
Tiffany Hoefer

Planning instruction: Formulating learning objectives - 0 views

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    A module with methods for how to formulate learning objectives for students, including two versions of Bloom's Taxonomy applied to student learning.
Tiffany Hoefer

Best Practices in Online Teaching - Pulling It All Together - Teaching Blended Learning... - 1 views

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    This module focuses on strategies that faculty might use when teaching blended learning courses that include both online and face-to-face teaching elements. While designed for higher ed can be applicable for k-12. This module is part of the Best Practices in Online Teaching Course created by Penn State University World Campus as a guide for faculty who are new to teaching in an online environment.
Tiffany Hoefer

LTTO Episodes | COFA Online Gateway - 0 views

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      Under the video is a "download pdf" link (purple box with orange down arrow) - nice downloadable resource for integrating ICT into the classroom.
Tiffany Hoefer

Commonwealth of Learning - Training Educators - 0 views

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    Nice resource from which to pluck particular needs. Module 1 & 9 could help ict, module 2 with teaching theory, design principles, module 5 with methods of delivery and learner support - other modules could help back up theory and/or practice - modules for guides, needs analysis, etc.
Tiffany Hoefer

FreeBIEs | Project Based Learning | BIE - 0 views

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    Buck Institute for Education "BIE" has created free materials - "FreeBIEs" - such as planning forms, student handouts, rubrics, and articles for educators to download and use to design, assess, and manage projects. Extensive links, tutorials videos. This is the link to the "FreeBIEs" page.
Tiffany Hoefer

Classroom Guide: Top Ten Tips for Assessing Project-Based Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Free guide and downloads to improve how teacher's assess project based learning. Requires free registration with edutopia to access pdf document.s
Tiffany Hoefer

Classroom Guide: Top Ten Tips for Teaching with New Media | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Downloadable PDF that highlights latest (2012) technology and ways to incorporate into the classroom. Requires free registration with edutopia to download pdf documents.
Tiffany Hoefer

Edutopia Professional Development Guides | Edutopia - 0 views

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    These free instructional guides, formerly known as the Teaching Modules, were developed by education faculty and professional developers for their colleagues. They can be employed as extension units in existing courses or can be used independently in workshops and meetings. Each guide has links to videos, PowerPoint presentations or other resources.
Tiffany Hoefer

Resources for Technology Integration | Edutopia - 1 views

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    Technology Integration material, PowerPoint presentation, suggested reading/resources. Part of a larger module.
Tiffany Hoefer

TEA5101 - 0 views

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    University of Southern Queensland (Australia) OpenCourseWare course designed to help tertiary educators delve into teaching and learning in a tertiary environment. Participants create a "Teaching Capacity Enhancement Plan" in collaboration with professional colleagues. Incorporates relevant professional development/staff activities. Participants must have access to teaching/learning environments in a tertiary setting.
Tiffany Hoefer

Authentic Problem-based Collaborative Learning Practices for Professional Development i... - 2 views

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    Reports on the use of PBL in initial teacher education itself i.e. for training teachers.
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    Research paper outlining the strategies of designing effective learning environments for multidisciplinary collaboration and problem-based learning and reports the effectiveness of those strategies. NCPEA peer reviewed/approved.
Tiffany Hoefer

Project-Based Learning Teaching Module | OER Commons - 1 views

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    PBL teaching modules from Edutopia. Part of Edutopia's professional development series. Designed to increase engagement and retention in the classroom. Designed to be used as a 2-3 hour class or a 1-2 day workshop. Divided into 2 parts.
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