A Literacyhead is someone who is intensely serious about exercising creative literacy, making connections across multiple literacies, pursuing thoughtful literacy as an individual and as a teacher, and constantly searching for ideas. Literacyheads may have expertise in different areas of literacy, but all are committed to children's literacy, passionate about the arts, incessant thinkers, and display a propensity for having fun.
"Lingt Classroom helps teachers enable their students to speak. -Create online assignments that make engaging and assessing
spoken performance as natural as giving out a worksheet.
-Make oral exams that take a fraction of the time to administer and assess. Perfect for IB and AP preparation.
-Offer targeted feedback to individual responses to maximize student improvement.
- Incorporate video and images to create media and culture-rich exercises.
- Archive all your assignments and students' responses to reuse next time and track individual improvement. "
Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.
"Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets."
Offers teachers and students a glossary of terms, handouts, interactive exercises, and slide show presentations. There are eighteen slide show presentations available for free download from Grammar Bytes. Each slide show is accompanied by a handout for students to complete as they view each presentation.
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