Session 3: 12:00pm - 12:45pm EST
Session 3: 12:00pm - 12:45pm EST
Level Up Your Instructional Videos
Tony Vincent
Meet up with Tony Vincent to learn about making instructional videos! Making your own videos is an opportunity to authentically reach your students. Tony has produced hundreds of instructional videos, and he shares examples, advice, ideas, techniques, and tools for creating your own videos. You can apply this information to videos you might make for distance learning, blended learning, or differentiated instruction.
Assistive Technology for Students with Learning Disabilities
Tammy Wallace
Assistive technology (AT) is available to help individuals with many types of disabilities — from cognitive problems to physical impairment. The use of technology to enhance learning is an effective approach for many children. Students with learning disabilities often experience greater success when they are allowed to use their abilities (strengths) to work around their disabilities (challenges). AT tools combine the best of both of these practices.
Participants will learn about:
1. Assistive technology for individuals with learning disabilities.
2. The types of learning problems assistive technology will address.
3. Available assistive technology tools that are available.
4. The programs and services of the SC Assistive Technology Program.
Wanna Host an EdCamp UnConference? It's Easy!
Nathan O'Neill
You don't need an overpaid consultant or district leadership to get teachers together to share and learn from each other! Drawing on experiences from hosting two Virtual EdCamps during the pandemic with a team of awesome folks, Nathan will lead you through some of the tips and tricks to host your own "unconference" experience. Whether you just want to get a few teachers in your school together, gather with subject matter experts across the state, or open up a discussion for the whole world of educators, this session will share the practical ins-and-outs of hosting a virtual (or face to face) "for you and by you" PD experience. We'll learn about "unconferencing" and also simulate the experience to give you a feel for the potential it could have for you and your peers' growth!
Using Breakout Rooms to Build Community
Charlene Cox & Laura Smith
Participants will receive a variety of strategies and ideas for using breakout rooms both for instruction and for building classroom community.
Google Tools for Data Collection
Linoshca Stokes & Nicole Tate
This session focuses on the data collection that teachers gather on a daily basis based on MTSS and goals related to student IEPs. Individuals will establish a strong understanding of collaboration and data collection. Participants will learn how to use Google Sheets, Google Forms and Google Response Form in order to create graphs that are helpful in finding trends that are informative to teachers and parents. Individuals will need to bring their devices as there will be an opportunity for hands on learning.
Reading Engagement- Strategies to Hook your Students on Reading
Samantha Udeagha
This session will be on different strategies/tips to engage your most reluctant readers. Mostly geared towards 3-5, participants will be able to gain several resources to use in their classroom during reading instruction or independent reading. Be prepared to engage in an interactive session and keep your mind open to the possibilities of trying something new! Can't wait to see you there!
Pearing is Caring! Explore PearDeck to Help Students Succeed!
Dr. Lori Latham
This session will focus on the use of PearDeck as an instructional tool used in direct instruction, blended learning, online environments, and flipped classrooms. PearDeck is a free dynamic, web-based program that seamlessly integrates with Google and Microsoft. It allows teachers to guide students through a lesson or provide students with a self-paced lesson. PearDeck enables teachers to formatively assess student learning in multiple ways. Be sure to bring your own personal electronic device because participants will learn how to use PearDeck and explore the possibilities for classroom integration. Three lucky participants will win a 3-month premium access to PearDeck!
Modeling and Data Collecting using Online Science Simulations
Dr. Ed Emmer
In this session, participants will experience how using online simulations can still engage students in authentic science and engineering practices. Participants will engage in authentic science modeling and data-collection investigations using different PhET free online free simulations. Following the engagements, participants will unpack the experiences through the lens of the Science and Engineering Practices and Crosscutting Concepts.
Addressing Post-COVID-19 Challenges with Professional Development
Mobile Mind
The pandemic and the abrupt shift to distance learning left students behind academically and, just as significant, socially and emotionally. Research shows that students could have lost up to 12 months of learning by summer 2021, bringing new challenges to teachers, administration, and support staff. "The new normal" is that "normal" no longer exists, as needs and requirements for students and teachers are frequently changing. Our education system must adapt to an agile approach to teaching and learning. There is no quick fix, rather a long-term, sustainable solution: professional development.
MobileMind's session will detail how competency-based, agile professional learning can not only accelerate student learning but mitigate teacher skill regression as well. Learn how personalized, asynchronous micro-learning prepares teachers and staff to effectively address the post-COVID challenges schools face and the significance of agile PD when it comes to teacher growth and student achievement.