If you are not accessing Edutopia via the Internet or on Twitter, I would highly suggest you do. There are endless quality resources.
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EdTechTeacher and Common Sense Education provide some great educational technology resources.
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Student Engagement Resources
There are numerous resources but this was one that connected with me: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/student-engagement-pbl-suzie-boss |
Learning Targets
A shared learning target unpacks a "lesson-sized" amount of learning—the precise "chunk" of the particular content students are to master (Leahy, Lyon, Thompson, & Wiliam, 2005). It describes exactly how well we expect them to learn it and how we will ask them to demonstrate that learning. And although teachers derive them from instructional objectives, learning targets differ from instructional objectives in both design and function. |
Better Learning Through Structured Teaching: A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR)
The video provides a great overview and model of the gradual release of responsibility. The gradual release of responsibility instructional framework purposefully shifts the cognitive load from teacher-as-model, to joint responsibility of teacher and learner, to independent practice and application by the learner (Pearson & Gallagher, 1983). |
Developing a Growth Mindset in Teachers and Staff
Based on the work of Stanford University psychologist, Carol Dweck, the idea of mindset is related to our understanding of where ability comes from. In a fixed mindset students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits. They have a certain amount and that’s that, and then their goal becomes to look smart all the time and never look dumb. In a growth mindset students understand that their talents and abilities can be developed through effort, good teaching and persistence. They don’t necessarily think everyone’s the same or anyone can be Einstein, but they believe everyone can get smarter if they work at it (Morehead 2012). |
Essential Questions
Per Essential Questions by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins: "A finer-grained examination of such questions reveals three different but overlapping meanings for the term essential. One meaning of essential includes the terms "important" and "timeless." A second connotation for essential refers to "elemental" or "foundational." A third and important connotation for the term essential refers to what is vital or necessary for personal understanding—in the case of schooling, what students need for learning core content. |
Student Engagement
These video provide some tools and strategies so that all students, including reluctant or shy ones, feel comfortable in a collaboration team and tips so that everyone is fully engaged. |
Learning Menus
Learning Menus are a nice tool for differentiating instruction and provide students with choices in mastering material. |
Personalized Learning
Personalized Learning allows students to study and create things that interest them. Teachers guide and monitor the process but it puts the responsibility of learning on the student and enables them to be active participants in their education rather than passive spectators. |
10 Ways to Increase Student Engagement
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Helping Student With Self-Motivation
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The Highly Engaged Classroom
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Tech & Education Gurus
Professional Development Opportunities
Exceptional learning experiences offered via face-to-face conferences and on-line classes.
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There are several interest groups that meet online.
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Classes and sessions available via face-to-face and online.
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Online professional learning
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