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.

Elementary Presentation

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.

Secondary Presentation

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.

Elementary Presentation

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.

Secondary Presentation

Accessing Secondary Distance Learning Resources (Handout)

Elementary

Secondary

Proficiency-Based Learning and Special Education (Elementary)

Presentation and Materials

Proficiency-Based Learning and Special Education (Secondary)

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Presentation Materials

Proficiency-Based Learning for Multilingual Learners (Elementary)

Presentation and Materials

Proficiency-Based Learning for Multilingual Learners (Secondary)

Presentation and Materials

Proficiency-Based Learning and Distance Learning

Presentation and Materials

Proficiency-Based Learning and Distance Learning

Presentation and Materials

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.

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Intro to Tech Tools Basic

This is a lightly facilitated or self-paced presentation. This presentation can be facilitated by the STS or LMETS.

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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.

Beginner Presentation

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

Intermediate Presentation

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

Advanced Presentation

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.

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