Dimension 4.4

Note: Utilizing a particular resource does not indicate Dimension 4.4 is being addressed. The administrator must examine the level of rigor at which the technology is incorporated.

•Classroom Help Board

Train your students to help each other - while you facilitate the discussion. Created and hosted in an online discussion board, a classroom help board allows students to post questions throughout a given week or for the duration of a particular academic unit. Fellow learners give helpful tips and provide links to beneficial resources. You monitor the discussion to ensure all questions are answered correctly in a timely manner.

•Digital Citizenship

Digital citizenship encompasses a wide range of online topics - from copyright issues, username/password confidentiality, and cyberbullying prevention to digital etiquette, digital literacy, and online safety/security. 

•Learning Centers/Stations

Also known as learning stations, learning centers offer numerous benefits - from giving students voice and choice in the ways assignments are completed to maximizing classroom productivity. A teaching technique that hits all 16 dimensions of T-TESS, centers are perfect for interest-based, skill-level-centered, learning-style-focused, and collaborative-group assignments. In addition, they can be incorporated into elementary, middle-school, and high school classrooms.

•Online Hall Pass

Using Google Forms, you can create a hall pass the can be checked out and checked back in online. Best of all, you get a time/date stamp of when the student leaves and when the child returns - along with the reason for the student's departure. Those data points come in handy during conferences with parents and administrators.

•Student Input Discussions/Forms

Give students a voice in daily classroom housekeeping procedures, class rules, and even discipline procedures. Create a Google form or a discussion in Google Classroom, and let the suggestions roll.