2020-2021 Days before Students Return Professional Learning Menu
Mandatory Presentations
Orientation to Distance Learning Resources - Rick Anthony
Distance Learning
Elementary
Secondary
Best Distance Learning Practices: Tips and Tricks for Distance Learning (Elementary)
This is a facilitated training with built-in group conversation, reflection, and consensus building. This presentation may have enough content to fill two blocks of PD menu time.
Best Distance Learning Practices: Tips and Tricks for Distance Learning (Secondary)
This is a facilitated training with built-in group conversation, reflection, and consensus building. This presentation may have enough content to fill two blocks of PD menu time.
Accessing Distance Learning Resources on Canvas (Elementary)
This is a facilitated training to help elementary teachers login to Canvas for the first time and find the distance learning teacher resource course for the grade level they teach. This is a shorter presentation that could be used as an introduction before allowing teacher teams to explore resources.
Accessing Distance Learning Resources on Canvas (Secondary)
This is a facilitated training to help secondary teachers find the distance learning teacher resource course for the content they teach. This is a shorter presentation that could be used as an introduction before allowing teacher teams to explore resources.
Proficiency-Based Learning
Elementary
Secondary
Proficiency-Based Learning and Special Education (Elementary)
Proficiency-Based Learning for Multilingual Learners (Secondary)
Proficiency-Based Learning and Distance Learning
Technology Tools
Elementary
Secondary
Intro to Tech Tools Basic
This is a lightly facilitated or self-paced presentation. This presentation can be facilitated by the STS or LMETS.
Intro to Tech Tools Basic
This is a lightly facilitated or self-paced presentation. This presentation can be facilitated by the STS or LMETS.
Google Classroom: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced (Elementary)
These are lightly facilitated or self-paced training presentations. Ideally, these presentations will be facilitated collaboratively by an administrator, School Technology Specialist, and/or teachers. Teachers should be given the opportunity to access all presentations if desired.
Topics Covered:
Do’s and don’ts of google classroom
Making sure you are signed in correctly to your granitesd.org account
Creating your google classroom TEACHER account
Creating your first class
Different ways to add students (including how to pull a student email list from gradebook); adding co-teachers, principals, STS, etc.
Creating assignments & announcements
Different ways to assign: view only, edit, make a copy; blank assignments
Basic organization tips and tricks (how to organize by week)
Go Math, Wonders & google classroom - what to know, how they work
Guardian Summaries / parent guide to google classroom
Setting up procedures - Google Classroom Examples
Topics Covered:
How to use Topics to organize your Google Classroom
How to Structure Assignments
Strategies for Google Classroom
Grading in Google Classroom
Giving Feedback
Using a Collaborative Google Classroom for Your Team
Reusing Posts
Scheduling Posts
Rearranging Assignments
Integrating Other Tools in Your Google Classroom
Using the Stream Effectively
Adjusting the Settings
Using a Common Naming Procedure to Make Finding Resources Easier
Using Materials for Reference Materials
Best Practices for Using Technology
Topics Covered:
Google Calendar Integration
Google Drive Integration
Google Meet Integration
Building a Quiz in Google Classroom (Forms; Locking the Form, etc)
Grading Assignments
Adding Teacher Comments to Student Assignments
Create a Comment Bank with Standard Comments that You Can Add with One Click
Assessing Student Progress/Rubrics - Classroom Grading Tools
Hyperdocs
How Grade Level Teams Share across a Common Classroom
Differentiate Assignments and Assign to Specific Students
Customize your Header
How/Why to Copy a Google Classroom
App for Google Classroom
Canvas and Beyond (Secondary)
This professional learning is built in Canvas. The presentation is an introduction to a self-paced Canvas course where teachers can learn while using Canvas. There are built-in tasks and assignments for teachers. This professional learning would ideally be facilitated by the school LMETS.