Session 1: 10:00am - 10:45am EST
Session 1: 10:00am - 10:45am EST
Electrify Any Lesson
Tony Vincent
Turn a potentially boring lesson into a brilliant one! Make learning irresistible by hooking your students' senses, connecting to background knowledge, telling stories, and building mysteries. Experience pixelated pictures, blacked-out text, research scrambles, locked content, customized Mad Libs, mystery maps, emoji prompts, and other inviting ways to captivate learners.
Google Classroom Amazing Mobile Features
Eric Curts
Google Classroom is a great tool for managing class assignments, collaboration, discussions and more. However, if you are only using the normal web version, you are missing out on many special features. Students and teachers can also run Classroom as a mobile app on phones, tablets, and modern Chromebooks. The mobile version adds several additional tools such as handwritten annotations, the option to take and insert images and videos, share content from other mobile apps in Classroom, push notifications, and more. See how you and your students can take Classroom to the next level with mobile!
ETV and PBS Resources for Early Learners
Breana Wilson
ETV and PBS both offer a variety of resources and services to support South Carolina’s educators, students, and families. This workshop offers an introduction to all things ETV Education including free, high-quality digital content, standards-based lesson plans specific to South Carolina, informative blogs, teacher recertification courses, and more. In this workshop, early learning teachers will learn about all of the resources from ETV and PBS, and will also learn how to incorporate them into the classroom. Education and media can be integrated for early learners, so come see how!
Assessment Doesn’t Have to be a Four-Letter Word (T#$T)
Nick LaFave
Explore the latest tools, tips, and strategies to empower students with meaningful feedback, and multiple ways to demonstrate learning. Examine strategies to transform assessment from the dreaded four-letter word (TEST) into one of your most useful instructional tools. This session aims to help teachers transform assessment into a learning experience by providing students with multiple options to demonstrate learning in creative and innovative ways. Updated for 2021!
Captivate Them! 3 steps to rebrand yourself, develop student agency, and reconnect your students with their love of learning
Diane Gilbert & Brian Heyward
This past year, students have developed a norm that may need to shift as schools return to in-person learning. In a business model, products are rebranded to improve sales. Similarly, teachers will be challenged to rebrand the curriculum and content delivery to increase student engagement. In this session, a 3-step framework will demonstrate how to add value to the classroom learning experience. Through discussion and engagement with technology resources, participants will identify interests and make connections to the delivery of their content in meaningful and relevant ways.
EdTech Top Tips and Tools to Implement Now
Stephanie Jacobs
In this session, we will explore apps, websites, and resources that will make your integration effective for all learners. With so many wonderful resources available, it can leave your head spinning. From these Top Tips, you will be able to develop a successful plan that will make you look like a technology pro. Our focus will be student engagement, management, and professional growth. What can you expect? Think about bitmojis, podcasting, play in the classroom, and Jamboard (just to name a few).
F is for Feedback: Effective Feedback for Student Growth and Improvement
Ashley Fort
Most teachers know the importance of feedback but the type of feedback given is crucial to its effectiveness on student growth and improvement. In this interactive session, we will:
- Review the importance of feedback and its effect size on learning
- Consider different types of feedback
- Discover using feedback as a shared process
- Explore digital tools to make giving feedback easier
- Make social-emotional links to feedback
Participants may want a device to explore digital tools shared and engage in the interactive elements of this presentation.
1234 STEMulate My Classroom and More
Warren Wise
Teachers will learn a 4-step process in which they will be able to develop interdisciplinary STEM activities for their school-wide projects, grade level teams, or their own classroom. Teachers work collaboratively on lessons/student led activities while grasping the concepts of Exploring, Designing and Applying cross-curriculum Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math activities for their school. They will also understand how they may be able to use their local community organizations to help reinforce their lessons as it applies to real-world scenarios while becoming a master financial literacy teacher.
Using Class Dojo to Support AVID Elementary Implementation
Clarissa Bennett
Class Dojo is a technology tool most often used to reward desired behaviors, but did you know it can also be integrated into most daily instructional routines to facilitate AVID strategies? If used consistently and with purposeful planning, Class Dojo + AVID Elementary can lead to more Engaging Instruction! Join me to see how you can transform your classroom instruction by integrating AVID strategies into your Class Dojo toolkit!